Deadline: 13-Nov-22
The British Council is inviting collaborative proposals by UK and Vietnamese partners to join them celebrating UK/Viet Nam Season 2023.
The Season will showcase the best of UK and Vietnamese culture, support professional development across sectors, and build strong networks between the UK and Viet Nam.
This is a unique opportunity for Vietnamese and UK organisations across Education, English, and the Arts and Creative Industries to co-create work for the UK/Viet Nam Season 2023.
What are they looking for?
- They are inviting UK and Vietnamese partners to put forward joint proposals for compelling activities and events to be delivered in Viet Nam and/or the UK during the Season (June-December 2023).
- Projects should reflect on their past, present, and future bilateral relationship through the Season’s themes: ‘Climate and the Environment‘ and ‘Shared Heritage’.
Funding Information
- Up to £10,000 grant
- Up to £20,000 grant
- To support the UK-VN creative collaboration presented during the Season period. They welcome cross artform projects, projects with themes relevant to the creative economy, projects linked with festival and art in the public realm, and cross-disciplinary projects (i.e., combining art, science, technology, education).
Types of Project
- Thought-provoking public engagement events that will appeal to general audiences, such as conferences, symposia; panel discussions; talks; workshops; interactive installations; artistic performances; exhibitions and student facing culture events.
- Interactive activities which will attract and inspire younger audiences through innovative use of digital technologies and ICT, such as Augmented augmented reality (AR) or Virtual virtual reality (VR).
- Specialised events which bring together partners from the UK and Viet Nam across their three pillars: Arts and Culture, Education and English language –– with a strong focus on professional development and network building for artists, arts and heritage practitioners / organisations, academics, educators researchers, and English language professionals and practitioners and which may result in ongoing partnerships.
- Ideation events that seed new collaborative and creative research projects, bringing together partners from the UK and Viet Nam.
- Proposals must demonstrate excellence across at least one of the thematic areas: Climate and the Environment, or Shared Heritage. They welcome proposals from any artform or academic discipline and they are interested to receive joint projects which are interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or cross-disciplinary projects (i.e. combining art, science, technology, education).
- Their cross-cutting themes of gender, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), equitable access (via digital and/or education technologies) and innovation, should be addressed and embedded in all proposals.
- Proposals can be for face-to-face or digital and/or an innovative combination of the two.
- All or part of the event/activity must be presented in the UK and/or Viet Nam between June 2023 to December 2023 as part of the Season celebration.
Eligibility Criteria
- Project proposals should be collaboratively developed and delivered by at least one UK-based organisation and at least one organisation based in Viet Nam.
- All the grants are open to arts and cultural organisations, as well as higher education and research organisations, including ELT and EdTech providers and education agents.
- An ‘organisation’ is defined as a legally registered entity with a registered bank account, and can include collectives, consortia, and community, charity, private and public organisations.
- Proposals by unregistered entities such as artist collectives or non-formal education professional networks might be considered if accompanied with evidence of a strong track record in developing and delivering projects and programmes of similar scale and nature.
For more information, visit https://www.britishcouncil.vn/en/programmes/uk-vietnam-season-2023/collaboration-grants
