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BRITISH COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION GRANTS

Application Deadline: 30 April, 2024

LOCATION: United Kingdom

The 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. 

ELIGIBILITY:

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 we ask applicants to share their approach to diversity, inclusion and environmental sustainability in the delivery of their project. 

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.

BENEFIT:

Available grants range between £25,000 and £75,000 and are now open for application.

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HIIL JUSTICE ACCELERATION PROGRAM (UP TO €10,000 NON-EQUITY FUNDING)

Application Deadline: April 4, 2024

LOCATION: The Netherlands

Do you want to participate in the Justice Accelerator Programme Applications for the Acceleration programme 2024 are open until April 4, 2024. This year our accelerator is focused on the most pressing challenges according to our Justice Needs and Satisfaction surveys in focus countries. We are looking for startups who have innovative solutions to prevent or resolve these challenges:

Nigeria: domestic violence, neighbours, land, crime, housing

Tunisia, Iraq and Palestine: employment and SMEs

Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia: crime, mSMEs, sexual gender-based violence

ELIGIBILITY:

Startups from MENA, Kenya and Nigeria who have:

People-centred solutions that prevent or resolve justice problems (read below under “Focus for 2024)

A functioning product with some traction (number of users, revenue, etc.) indicating proof of customer demand. Startups in earlier stages are encouraged to contact their respective regional innovation hubs to find out about our ideation and incubation programmes.

A strong team of founder(s).

A revenue model

Ambition to scale beyond the immediate target market

BENEFIT:

HiiL’s Justice Accelerator offers you a 4-month long programme that provides you with:

€10,000 non-equity funding.

Workshops delivered by industry specialists on a variety of topics from impact measurement to marketing, commercial strategy and financial modeling

A dedicated coach and a network of expert mentors

Access to a HiiL’s global network of justice stakeholders and practitioners, as well as top-notch research and development

International exposure and potential investment opportunities.

Chance to win up to €20.000 at Demo Day 

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