Call for Participants: Global Cultural Leadership Programme

Are you a young cultural practitioner looking to develop and strengthen your cultural leadership skills in an international working context? Then the Global Cultural Leadership Programme is designed for you.

Through its framework, content and methodology, the Global Cultural Leadership Programme specifically aims to improve the skills of cultural managers, enhance collaborative peer-to-peer learning, network building and enable you to develop fresh insights into international cultural collaboration practices. The programme offers a set of learning modules, tools and manuals for practice-based learning, giving you opportunities to build meaningful collaborations at the global level and within the EU.

The Global Cultural Leadership Programme is a component of the Cultural Diplomacy Platform launched in March 2016, to support the European Commission with the implementation of a new 'Strategy for international cultural relations'. ECF is part of the consortium, with BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, British Council, EUNIC Global, and Institut français, and led by Goethe-Institut, to support the implementation of the Cultural Diplomacy Platform. The Platform aims to carry out activities in order to enhance the EUs cultural engagement with third countries and their citizens.

For the first edition of the programme, the Cultural Diplomacy Platform is looking specifically for applications from outstanding cultural managers from the ten Strategic Partners of the EU (three participants from each of these ten countries: Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and the USA), as well as from EU Member States (ten EU participants from different EU counties). The participants to the Global Cultural Leadership Programme will come from different fields of relevant cultural practice in their respective countries and represent sectors that are specifically interested in reaching out with their work globally.

This first Global Cultural Leadership Programme will take place in Valletta, Malta from October 1621 in parallel to the 7th IFACCA World Summit on Arts and Culture.

For further information on expected outcomes, content, methodology and application procedure please have a look at the whole Call for participants and template.

Applications (preferably in pdf format) and inquiries shall be sent by e-mail to globalculturalprogramme@cultureinexternalrelations.eu. The deadline for submitting applications is August 1st.