Connect4Innovation: UK-Turkey Higher Education Institutional Partnerships Fund
Deadline: 4-Sep-22
The British Council Turkey is now inviting applications for its Connect4Innovation: UK-Turkey Higher Education Institutional Partnership Fund to a new grant scheme which supports and enables institutional partnerships between universities from the UK and Turkey.
Enhancing internationalisation, institutional partnerships, and inclusion will support higher education institutions to improve quality and thus increase the skills and knowledge, which are essential for their students’ successful careers in a rapidly changing workplace.
Primary Themes
They welcome project applications with the following primary themes:
Creating new and innovative career pathways and career development programmes for academics, professional staff, students and graduates including:
Aligning skill sets of students and graduates with industry needs.
Improving teaching skills including pedagogy, curriculum and/or assessment capabilities of academics.
Developing the capacity of internationalisation, student affairs and career counselling professionals.
Strengthening governance, leadership, quality assurance and management in institutions.
Climate change, green universities and green careers with a clear impact on graduates’ employability skills, in line with the United Nations’ priority themes.
Funding Information
Funding of up to £25,000 per project will be available, which will cover the costs of year one of the project.
Applicants are expected to cover 100 per cent of the total budget for the second year of the project.
The budget for the second year to be covered by the applicants must be equal to at least 50 per cent of the total project budget requested.
Applications which provide more matched funding and/or in-kind contributions will have an advantage.
Expected Outputs
Possible outputs could be:
Pilot initiatives offering innovative solutions to strengthen governance, leadership and management in higher education institutions and other relevant stakeholders.
Design and delivery of course/training modules, in collaboration with community and industry leaders, focussing on the development of entrepreneurial, report writing, communication, teamworking, problem-solving, commercial awareness, leadership and organisation skills of students and graduates.
Advisory papers for policy change with action plans and recommendations.
Joint awareness raising policy dialogues/capacity building activities between the UK and Turkey higher education institutions focusing on the primary themes.
Joint digital training programmes and new models of experience sharing and capacity building activities for internationalisation, student affairs and career counselling professionals.
New business incubation services including business/enterprise hubs for students, continuous professional development centres and internationalisation departments.
Scoping of innovative implementations and initiatives which provide green career pathways for academics, professional staff, students and graduates.
Innovative models of joint research and application focusing on the primary themes.
Eligibility Criteria
Joint UK-Turkey higher education institution applications, in which the Turkish higher education institution acts as the lead institution, will be accepted.
One higher education institution from Turkey (Turkey Lead)
One higher education institution from the UK (UK Partner)
The application should also include at least one of the following as a supporting partner institution from Turkey:
Municipalities
Research and development centres (for-profit organisations can only receive travel reimbursement from the fund)
Development agencies
NGOs
Education think-tanks
Chambers of commerce
Organised Industrial Zones
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