£100,000 British Council Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning Funding in 2019

£100,000 British Council Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning Funding in 2019

British Council Connecting Classrooms opens for applications to developing countries to build teachers’ skills and pupils’ understanding of global issues.

British Council offers grants to schools for visits from the UK to developing countries to build teachers’ skills and pupils’ understanding of global issues in 2019.

Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning supports schools to link around the world on global curriculum projects through partnerships. The programme offers an interactive online platform for collaboration, grants for teachers to visit their partner schools and professional development for teachers and school leaders.

Grants are awarded on a competitive basis, with schools needing to demonstrate a strong commitment to their partner schools, to embedding global learning in their curriculum and have a teacher committed to professional development in this area.

Worth of Award

Up to £100,000 funding is available

Eligibility

• There are certain requirements school partnerships must meet to be able to apply for the British Council Connecting Classrooms funding. The criteria has been made as flexible as possible to accommodate maximum partnerships and help bring global learning to classrooms.
• All partnerships, whether one-to-one or a cluster, must include at least one UK school and one overseas school.
• Schools wishing to partner with the Middle East and North Africa need to contact schools@britishcouncil.org to be matched with a school in that region due to specific operating conditions. Existing partnerships will also need approval prior to application.
• They accept grant applications from schools and comparable institutions providing full-time general, vocational, technical and special-needs education.

Grant funding is only available in the following countries:

• Middle East and North Africa: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Tunisia and Yemen
• South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan
• Sub Saharan Africa: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
• The United Kingdom.

How to Apply

Schools should establish a partnership before applying for funding

Deadline: There is no deadline for the British Council Connecting Classrooms grant applications

Click here for more details and to apply