The Transcultura Programme: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity, implemented by UNESCO and funded by the European Union (EU), is receiving scholarship applications for online courses on cultural entrepreneurship at the Open Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWIOC).
A January 27 release from UNESCO said that the call covers free access to 10 management courses for 300 young people from the Caribbean with expertise in the cultural and creative industries, to allow them to develop their skills and business projects.
Three hundred scholarships are available.
These workshops will last 6 weeks and use a b-learning methodology which combines traditional teaching with online tools. The offer includes: Small Business Management, Effective Management and Leadership, Effective Business Communication, Project Management, Finance for Non-Financial Managers, Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation, Financial Monitoring and Evaluation, Sales and Marketing Management, Brand Management and Grant Proposals Writing. The release said that courses will be taught in English by UWIOC professors with interpretation into Spanish and French. Teaching materials will be available in the three languages.
The University of the West Indies is part of the Regional Cultural Training Hub promoted by the Transcultura Programme to strengthen the skills of young Caribbean professionals in the cultural and creative sectors. To date, more than 200 people have benefited from the training sessions organised by the Hub, the release added. New scholarship schemes will be launched in the future.
The call for applications will remain open until 28 February for young creators and cultural professionals between 18 and 35 from Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, the Dominican Republic, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply on the website https://www.open.uwi.edu/transcultura/scholarships
The release said that the Transcultura team will also organise a webinar on February 15 at 14:00 on ‘How to become a Transcultura Fellow’, that will focus on this call and the general conditions to access Scholarships. The webinar can be accessed on this link: https://unesco-org.zoom.us/j/98917027848
The programme aims to harness diversity to build bridges between people and cultures from different linguistic areas. It is built on two strategic areas of action: the first one focusing on strengthening the skills and capacities of young cultural professionals and the second one on enhancing opportunities through knowledge transfer and exchanges.
The Regional Cultural Training Hub links key Caribbean institutions to promote the professionalization of the cultural and creative industries sector. Seven Cuban institutions and one from the Caribbean make up the Hub: the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, the University of the Arts, the Higher Institute of Design, the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets, the San Geronimo University College of Havana, the Workshop School “Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos”, the College of Santa Clara, and the University of the West Indies.
