British Council: International Collaboration Grants
Overview
International Collaboration Grants encourage new bilateral and multilateral partnerships, providing funding to enable organisations to make and develop creative artwork with their international peers, and help individual artists find innovative ways of collaborating.
Available grants range between £25,000 and £75,000 and are now open for application.
Applications must demonstrate genuine international collaboration and deliver explicit benefit to participating UK artists and organisations and their international partners. Projects can address any theme and they ask applicants to share their approach to diversity, inclusion and environmental sustainability in the delivery of their project.
Eligibility
Before making your application, please ensure you have read the full list of FAQs www.britishcouncil.org/arts/international-collaboration -grants-faqs and that you can answer ‘yes’ to the following eligibility questions:
- Is the collaboration between a UK (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales) organisation and an organisation from an eligible country/territory?* (see below)
- Is the size of the grant you have requested within the threshold of £25,00 – £75,000?
- The total project budget may include funding from other sources
- Is this an arts project? **(see below)
** Proposed projects must be projects for the arts, cultural or creative sector(s) within any of the following art forms:
- Film
- Creative technology (incl games, immersive, mixed, augmented and virtual reality)
- Literature
- Visual Arts
- Theatre and dance (including circus)
- Architecture, design and fashion (including craft)
- Music
They also welcome proposals for:
- Cross-art form projects
- Projects with themes relevant to the creative economy
- Cross-disciplinary art projects (e.g., art and science, art and technology)
The scope of a project might be simply to collaborate on a piece of art, a flm, piece of writing or music, or could include any of the following:
- Residencies
- Exhibitions, festivals, showcases, performances, screening programmes
- Projects which focus on or include digital innovation (such as projects which combine art with technology in a new or different way)
- Conferences, panels and talks
- Creative use of archives
- Research and development of future project ideas
Although this is not a fund focusing on professional development, the outcome doesn’t strictly need to be a completed artistic outcome. The development of skills can be part of a project with the primary outcomes being the support of creative and artistic work. The delivery of projects can be digital, face-to-face or a hybrid blend of both.
Who can Apply?
Applications must show a genuine commitment to international collaboration. You should be able to demonstrate how all collaborators will share knowledge, resources and experience to reach a communal and mutually beneficial goal. Take time to explore how you will work together across differing cultural and professional contexts.
The grants are designed to support UK and international organisations to work on projects in partnership. The international organisations must be based in the countries listed below.
Each project should include at least one UK-based organisation as part of the partnership.
The grant will be paid to the UK partner on condition that the grant is distributed between them and the country partner/s.
*UK in partnership with:
Each project should include at least one UK-based organisation and one organisation based in the countries listed below as part of the partnership.
Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Mainland China, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Montenegro, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Serbia, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen and Zimbabwe.