Deadline: 1-Jun-22
The Transcultura has launched a call for applications which will select up to eight young entrepreneurs, with innovative projects in their early stage of development, from the three linguistic areas covered by the Programme (English-, French- and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean) who will be able to participate in the event in Kingston.
The creative economy is one of the most dynamic sectors with a huge potential for socio-economic development. The Caribbean region, with its multiplicity of traditions, languages and historical links, is in a privileged position to tap this potential. The UNESCO Transcultura Programme harnesses this diversity to promote integration and cooperation in the Caribbean and the European Union through culture and creativity.
Goals
To this end, the event will pursue four main goals:
- To bring together representatives of Caribbean and European incubators and accelerators, thus fostering dialogue and information-sharing on existing programmes that aim at boosting cultural entrepreneurship.
- To encourage entrepreneurship by enabling the exchange of practices and knowledge between
- experienced entrepreneurs and young cultural professionals.
- To support network creation and consolidation between Caribbean entrepreneurs and
- entrepreneurship projects in the cultural and creative industries.
- To systematize good practices in order to formulate recommendations on how to foster
- entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries.
Eligibility Criteria
- Young entrepreneurs between 18 and 35 years.
- Young entrepreneurs who are citizens and permanent residents of any of the 17 Caribbean countries within the Transcultura Programme´s geographic scope: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
- Young entrepreneurs with an emerging cultural and creative entrepreneurship project proposal.
For more information, visit https://en.unesco.org/news/unesco-transcultura-call-aims-boost-entrepreneurial-skills-among-young-caribbean-creatives