Call for Climate Skill Global Collaboration Grant is Open Now !!!
The British Council’s Climate Skills Global Collaboration Grants represent a major international initiative designed to strategically tackle the escalating global green skills gap and proactively support a just transition to a low-carbon economy. This comprehensive program, significantly supported by HSBC, focuses on fostering deep-rooted, strategic, and equitable partnerships between educational and training institutions in the UK and five key partner countries—Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Viet Nam. These nations face unique and immediate climate challenges. The core mission is to empower young people, aged 18 to 30, with the specialized knowledge, practical skills, and entrepreneurial mindset required to thrive in the future workforce.
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The grants provide substantial financial backing, ranging from £50,000 to £85,000 for each successful collaboration, with the partners mutually agreeing on the cost split. These funds are specifically intended to finance joint projects that design and deliver structured, industry-aligned opportunities for youth. Projects must demonstrably focus on providing either hands-on green work experience or crucial green entrepreneurship training. This includes high-demand sectors critical to climate action, such as sustainable agriculture, natural resource management, and renewable energy installation. Running for approximately nine and a half months and commencing in mid-January 2026, the projects emphasize tangible, real-world solutions that address local environmental needs and contribute to building economic resilience.
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Eligibility mandates a joint proposal from one lead UK institution (including Higher Education, TVET institutions, training providers, or NGOs) and one lead partner country institution. This requirement underscores the commitment to co-creation, ensuring that the curricula, training models, and resources developed are mutually beneficial, culturally relevant, and aligned with local skills gaps. A crucial, overarching objective of the program is comprehensive capacity strengthening and mutual knowledge exchange. This helps partner organizations build sustainable, long-term educational programming well beyond the grant period, fostering enduring international connections and shared best practices in climate education.
The ultimate and most vital beneficiaries are the young people themselves, who will accelerate their entry into meaningful green jobs and foster the creation of climate-resilient entrepreneurship ventures. By actively working to close the identified skills gap in rapidly emerging green industries, the British Council and its partners aim to cultivate a generation of resilient, skille,d and socially conscious workers who can actively drive sustainable development and innovation on a global scale, making a tangible impact on the climate crisis.
Benefits
- Partner institutions will receive financial grants of up to £85,000 to fund the co-designed collaborative projects.
- The grant will establish new, or strengthen existing, strategic international partnerships between UK institutions and local organisations in the partner countries.
- Partner institutions will undergo capacity strengthening and benefit from mutual knowledge exchange and sustained engagement.
- Young people (18-30) will gain access to structured, industry-aligned green work experience and/or green entrepreneurship experience.
- Participants will acquire specialized green skills and core life skills necessary for successful careers in the green economy.
- The project will create and promote clear pathways for young people to enter green jobs and drive sustainable development in their respective countries.
Eligibilities
- The proposal must be a joint application between one lead UK institution and one lead institution from a partner country: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, or Vietnam.
- All participating organizations must be one of the following: Higher Education Institutions, Technical and Vocational Education institutions, Training Providers or Non-Governmental Organizations.
- The project collaboration must focus on delivering structured, industry-aligned opportunities for young people (aged 18-30) to gain green work experience.
- The project must support capacity strengthening of each partner organization while stimulating longer-term interactions between the two countries.
Application Process
- All applications should be sent to [email protected].
- Applications must be written in English and submitted by the UK organization.
- Applicants must Download all necessary documents, including the Application Form, Budget Template and Application Guidance from the official British Council webpage.
- Applications must only be submitted using the application form supplied. All sections
must be completed and page limits must be taken into account. - Applicants must Complete the Application Form thoroughly and prepare the Budget Template, clearly detailing the agreed cost split of the grant funds.
Application Deadline: November 17, 2025 (9 Days Remaining)
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