UNESCO

UNESCO is launching a call for experts to create a Reflection Group on the diversity of cultural expressions in the digital environment (2024-2025) within the framework of the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.

‘Export development and market opportunities in the handcraft sector’ is a six-week online incubator initiative (August - early September 2023) which offers an innovative framework for export development and increasing market opportunities. Applicants must be between 18 and 35 years old and citizens / permanent residents of Transcultura Caribbean countries.

Transcultura invite you to present your poetic work at the 40th edition of the Poetry Market, which will take place from 7-11 June 2023 at the Place Saint Sulpice, Paris, France, with the Caribbean, for the first time, as guest of honour. The call is open to young Caribbean poets between 18 and 35 years of age.

The UNESCO programme Transcultura: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity, funded by the European Union, launches the call for the third round of the free online course ‘FondosCultura: Writing Grant Proposals to Unlock Cultural Funding’.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), with funding from the Kingdom of Norway, launches a call open to governments and public institutions of UNESCO Member States, as well as to civil society organisations, to support initiatives aimed at protecting and promoting artistic freedom, including the status of the artist.

Creative technologists based in Southern or Eastern Africa can apply to participate in this lab using extended reality (XR) technology like virtual reality or augmented reality to develop new narratives on World Heritage sites in Southern and Eastern Africa. The 3-day ideas development lab will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 6-8 December 2022.

The UNESCO Transcultura programme has launched a call to sponsor the participation of up to three music projects by Caribbean hip-hop artists in the International Festival and Symposium ‘Re-inventing Europe from the Caribbean. Urban Cultures, Translocal Identities and Social Movements in the Black Atlantic’, which will take place in Berlin, Germany, from 28 to 31 July 2022.

The Transcultura programme is offering a number of online courses during March and April 2022, including on Grant Proposal Writing, Project Management, and Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation. Applications are open to artists or cultural professionals who are citizens or permanent residents of Caribbean countries.

The UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean is in charge of the implementation of the UNESCO programme Transcultura: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity, supported by the European Union. The Programme is built on two components: the first focusing on strengthening the skills and capacities of young cultural professionals and the second on enhancing opportunities through knowledge transfer and exchanges.

The UNESCO-Aschberg Programme was adapted in the face of COVID-19 to specifically support states and key actors in cultural and creative industries in line with the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. The recent UNESCO report on the cultural and creative industries has shown that this sector has been particularly affected by the pandemic, with a loss of around 10 million jobs worldwide. The livelihoods of many arts and culture professionals are under immediate threat.

UNESCO is calling for expressions of interest is for an individual consultant to design and implement key capacity building and peer-to-peer learning activities in the framework of the celebration of the International Year of the Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. The implementation period for the work is 19 July 2021 – 19 June 2022, with work carried out in Paris, France and via remote work.

UNESCO with the support of the Korean Government will organise an 8-week-long course online starting from September 2021. Targeting early to mid-career professionals from governments and civil society organisations in the ASEAN region, the training covers various aspects of the creative economy with practical case studies and invited guest speakers.