The British Council in Turkey is happy to launch the Connect4Innovation: UK-Turkey Higher Education Institutional Partnership Fund in its second year.
The grant scheme supports and enables institutional partnerships between universities from the UK and Turkey and also aims to create new links, innovative and sustainable partnerships through joint activities and projects to improve graduate outcomes.
We are aiming to support projects which offer a clearly articulated benefit for developing the ‘global graduate’ who can consider different perspectives, approaches and challenges with flexible thinking and demonstrates a willingness to challenge stereotypes.
In order to align graduate outcomes with industry or social needs, projects should also include a third partner such as an NGO, development agency, chamber of commerce, organised industry zone or municipality. Industry requires future employees to have specific skillsets to innovate and drive technological advances, so we are looking for applications which go beyond research projects, and are both innovative and practical.
We are inviting universities in Turkey and the UK to submit joint applications for projects which focus on improving student and graduate outcomes.
Grant support of £25,000 will be provided for the projects that the two countries will jointly develop.
The deadline for application is 4 September and applications can be submitted through:
www.britishcouncil.org.tr/en/programmes/education/connect4innovation-uk…