Deadline: 27-Nov-22
The British Council is pleased to announce its call for UK-Thailand Digital Innovation Grants.
This Call for Grants aims to foster partnerships between Thai education institutions and UK ELT/Ed Tech organizations to explore a more inclusive and accessible approach to developing provision of English language teaching and learning in Thailand, particularly through digital education technology.
The overall objective is for UK and Thai organisations in EdTech and ELT sectors to generate new learning and insight through co-designing and piloting of digital innovations which will support the improvement of English language teaching, learning, and assessment in Thailand.
Theme: Supporting Teacher CPD (Continuous Professional Development)
- Teacher education – teachers, teacher educators (e.g., curricula, practicum, etc.)
- Remote, blended, and self-access models for CPD for teachers and teacher educators (pedagogy or language improvement)
- Video content
- Digital CPD resources that scaleable and sustainable
- ICT applications
- Teacher networks and Communities of Practice (online and social media)
- Research and insight to respond to specific questions about remote or digital capacity building during post Covid-19, not yet investigated in Thailand
- Developing and mapping digital/online resources with the current policies of (OBEC) the Office of the Basic Education Commission.
Funding Information
- The maximum funding available for each project is £30,000. The projects should be implemented from February/March 2023 – March 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
The British Council is inviting collaborative applications in response to this open call from organisations across the UK and Thailand. This ‘Digital Innovation Grant’ is designed to support collaboration between the UK and Thailand.
- They are inviting applications for innovative responses to this open call. Applications must include at least one partner in the UK and one from Thailand. Applicants must be living in their respective country at the time of applying and for the duration of this project.
- Applicants can apply for up to £30,000 to realise their innovative idea and they are looking to support two or three projects in this pilot phase, up to a maximum value of £60,000. Applicants with in kind or matched support are welcome, although this is not essential. Match funding cannot be provided through other British Council funded programmes.
- Applications should be jointly submitted and signed by all named collaborators, with one principal applicant e.g. a lead UK partner organisation, who will be contracted and responsible for leading communications and disseminating the grant to all collaborators.
- Organisations and/or informal collectives/networks are eligible to apply but should have demonstrable experience of managing similar projects and grants.
- Applicants must be able to demonstrate clear benefit to Thailand and meet the ODA and gender criteria above, which should be reflected through the project planning (including budget allocation), delivery and dissemination. This includes demonstrating how the local partners or their audiences may benefit. Mutuality must be a central component to the international collaboration.
- They expect applications to embed principles of equality, diversity and inclusion through their core proposal and idea (including costs relating to captioning videos or translating content).
- They are interested in original and innovative ideas in response to this brief. Established existing projects and programmes will be ineligible. Exceptions apply for existing ideas which have reached a pilot or prototyping phase but have not been realised publicly.
- Applicants will be expected to plan, design, and realise their project from February/ March 2023 with the main activity complete by the end of March 2024. Main activity can take place any time during the year, although they anticipate that you will respect the annual academic calendar (and holiday breaks) in Thailand.
- Successful applicants will own the copyright of any work created but must grant the British Council and Thailand Ministry of Education, as the commissioning partners, free and unequivocal use of any arising outputs, which may include promotion of works through their digital channels or exhibiting works in the future. For the avoidance of doubt, this license will not include use of any work for commercial purposes.
- Successful applicants will be required to keep in regular communication with the British Council, offering project updates and share their project monitoring and evaluation progress and final reports for review and publication.
Eligible Cost
- Please note that the following costs are eligible for funding:
- Travel: Travel fares (economy class) and subsistence costs to the UK/Thailand. This includes visa fees, vaccinations, quarantine costs, and medical insurance to the UK and Thailand.
- Local travel in the UK and overseas (public transport to and from the airport and for meetings/visits is encouraged where possible).
- Reasonable accommodation and subsistence costs for staff for visits to their partner organisation in the UK or overseas following the British Council travel rate.
- Reasonable hospitality costs (not self-entertaining costs).
- Reasonable production costs (e.g., for the development of materials).
- The cost of staff time for full-time personnel working directly on the project, plus the costs of temporary personnel and other temporary staff recruited to work solely on the project.
- External Consultancy fee (when procure externally and up to 30% of the total project costs).
- Translation/interpretation costs (where procured externally)
- Essential equipment for use on the project including consumables, specialist software licenses essential to the collaboration, access fees to facilities or library services. Equipment must be essential to delivery of the project and cannot be expected to be provided by institutions.
- Cost of meetings, training events, workshops, public engagement events and seminars integral to the proposal. Translation and interpreter fees.
- Publication costs directly related to the collaboration – this includes web page development by external providers, if appropriate.
- Online platform and relevant costs for digital delivery can be included.
- Attendance at conferences or other events in Thailand, UK or virtual event to present outputs and outcomes of the project.
- Monitoring and evaluation costs including final project reporting costs and contracting external reviewer with maximum value not more than 30% of total project value.
- All of the activities must be directly related to the development and delivery of the agreed project. Partners will be asked to complete expenditure information and provide evidence with receipts to British Council for monitoring and auditing purposes.
Ineligible
- Full economics costs (FECs). E.g. Institutional overheads including administration fees and other indirect costs
- Institutional overheads including administration fees and other indirect costs.
- Costs relating to activities which have already taken place at the outset of the project
- Purchase or rental of standard office equipment. This includes IT hardware – laptops, personal computers, tablets, smart phones, Mac workstations, computer parts and peripherals, etc.
- Office software and office equipment including desks, chairs, filing cabinets, photocopiers, printers, fax machines.
- Mobile phone costs including rental or purchase, and monthly phone bills.
- Exchange rate costs/loss and other banking related costs.
- IP costs, Patents, copyright, licensing or other IP-related costs.
- Costs relating to the construction, procurement or rental of physical infrastructure, (e.g. office buildings, laboratory facilities). It is expected that rooms and facilities essential for the routine operation of collaboration are provided as an in-kind contribution by the participating institutions. These can be detailed as an in-kind contribution in the budget breakdown.
- Entertainment costs such as: gifts; alcohol; restaurant bills or hospitality costs for personnel not directly participating in the project; excessive restaurant costs; excessive taxi fares.
- No profit or fees to be charged during the period of this grant funding.
For more information, visit https://www.britishcouncil.or.th/en/teach/uk-thailand-digital-innovation-grant