Due to the success of year one of the Creative Spark: Higher Education Enterprise Program, the UK’s British Council is to fund a further 12 international partnerships, including in Georgia. Each partnership will receive a maximum of £40,000.
The UN has previously recognized the creative economy as being one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy. Participants in the Creative Spark program help the next generation to develop new skills which may boost their employment prospects, as well as helping to develop the creative economy in their countries.
The maximum amount of funding will be £40,000 for one academic year per partnership (September 2019–June 2020).
The partnership must be formed between at least one of the identified organizations in the UK and at least one organization in the program country. The final version of the application must be submitted by the UK partner. Partnerships may be one-to-one or involve a consortium (i.e. a small group of universities/institutions either from the UK or partner countries).
UK organizations with partners from one of the Creative Spark countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan): university (or relevant institutions/institutes of the university); local/national foundations (with relevant focus and capacity to program targets); public bodies (governmental, semi-governmental organizations working for city/national administrations with relevant focus; non-governmental organization; creative hubs/clusters/ innovation centers.
