Britishcouncil: International Collaboration Grants

Our International Collaboration Grants are now open for the second time.
This £1 million grants programme supports the creation of new cultural collaborations between UK artists, arts professionals and organisations and their peers around the world.

Our International Collaboration Grants encourage new bilateral and multilateral partnerships, providing funding to enable organisations to make and develop creative artwork with their international peers, and help individual artists find innovative ways of collaborating.

Available grants range between £25,000 and £75,000 and are now open for application.

Applications must demonstrate genuine international collaboration and deliver explicit benefit to participating UK artists and organisations and their international partners. Projects can address any theme and we ask applicants to share their approach to diversity, inclusion and environmental sustainability in the delivery of their project.

Application support

We have developed a package of resources to help you in your application. Scroll down this page for an application toolkit providing more information on eligibility, the grants programme and what we are looking for plus practical tips and considerations for your application.

Please find links below to: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), a recording of our information session following the last round of the programme in 2021, and a pdf copy of the presentation given in February 2024. We will continue to update the FAQs while applications remain open.

Read our FAQs

Watch the information session

Download the presentation

Participating countries

Each project should include at least one UK-based organisation and one organisation based in the countries listed below as part of the partnership.

Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Mainland China, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Montenegro, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Serbia, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen and Zimbabwe.