International Skills Partnerships

Foundation ProjectProposal

Before completing this form please read the International Skills Partnerships General Guidelines. These guidelines include important information that will help you to understand how British Council international skills partnerships work and what makes a good partnership. This information will help ensure that your proposal as strong as possible.

In completing this form, please refer to the International Skills PartnershipsProject Proposal Guidelines. These guidelines provide guidance on completing each section of this form.

Please note that you must adhere to the maximum word limits in this form. Any text exceeding the word length will be deleted prior to submission to the assessment panel.

Organisation Details

1a. Formal Partners

UK partner

Name of partner organisation
Address
Telephone
Website
Principal/CEO
Principal/CEO email
Name of main contact
Position
Main contact telephone
Main contact email

Overseaspartner

Name of partner organisation
Address
Telephone
Website
Principal/CEO
Principal/CEO email
Name of main contact
Position
Main contact telephone
Main contact email

Consortium partnersin both countries

Organisation name
Address
Country
Name of main contact
Position
Type of organisation
Direct telephone
email
Organisation name
Address
Country
Name of main contact
Position
Type of organisation
Direct telephone
email
Organisation name
Address
Country
Name of main contact
Position
Type of organisation
Direct telephone
email
Organisation name
Address
Country
Name of main contact
Position
Type of organisation
Direct telephone
email
Organisation name
Address
Country
Name of main contact
Position
Type of organisation
Direct telephone
email

*Please continue on an additional page if necessary

1b.Stakeholder Organisations in both countries

Company Name / Industry / UK / Overseas
2. Why is the project needed?

(200 words)

3. What change will this project deliver and what will the impact be?

UK (150 words)

Overseas (150 words)

4. How will the project achieve the changes?

(200 words maximum)

5. Why is your partnership best placed to deliver this project?

(200 words maximum)

6. Preparatory activity

(200 words maximum)

7. Publicity and Direct Engagement

7a.

Publicity
Method / UK / Partner country / Additional details
Press Release
Website
Blog
Social Media
Newspaper Article
Conference
Other
Total

7b.

Direct Engagement
UK / Partner figure / Additional information
Government
Skills Agency
Awarding Body
Employer
Educator
Learner
Other
Total
8. Compulsory Project Requirements

The following are compulsory activities and are included in the work plan in Section 9. Please refer to the Guidance notes for further information. Please tick the following areas to indicate that you have read the information in the Guidance notes and are able to comply with the requirements.

Compulsory Activity/Deliverable / Read Information and confirm capacity to carry out
Benchmarking Study
Virtual project platform
Publicise the project on all partners websites
Interim Self Assessment
Final Report including Impact Assessment Study

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*Compulsory activity – see Foundation Project Proposal Guidelines for further information

Quarter 1 / Activities / Estimated
staff days for each activity
*Conduct benchmarking study
*Createvirtual project platform
*Announce partnership and objectives on all participating companies websites
Quarter 1 / Deliverables
*Benchmarking Report
*Virtual project platform – including access codes for all participants and the British Council
*Evidence of all website announcements

Please continue on the supplementary sheet provided at the end of this document if required

Quarter 2 / Activities / Estimated
staff days for each activity
*Conduct self-assessment report (end of Quarter 2)
Quarter 2 / Deliverables
*Self-assessment report

Please continue on the supplementary sheet provided at the end of this document if required

Quarter 3 / Activities / Estimated
staff days for each activity
Quarter 3 / Deliverables

Please continue on the supplementary sheet provided at the end of this document if required

Quarter 4 / Activities / Estimated
staff days for each activity
*Complete Impact Report and Analysis
*Complete Final Report
*Send information about the project to local politician in the UK, Chamber of Commerce overseas
Quarter 4 / Deliverables
*Final Report, including Impact Assessment Report
*Evidence of Publicity

Please continue on the supplementary sheet provided at the end of this document if required

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10. Expenditure

ITEM / DETAIL/ RATIONALE / UNITS / UNIT COST / GRANT
TOTAL / MATCH FUNDING / TOTAL
TOTALS

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11. Partnership community

Please tick √ as appropriate

Be included on the partnership matrix
Sign up for the British Council International Skills Partnerships e-newsletter

12. Signatures

I confirm that I have read the Partnership Guidelines and acknowledge that this project will be a whole institutional activity.

Signature of Principal/CEO of lead UK organisation:

Name:

Date:

Signature of Principal/CEO of lead overseasorganisation:

Name:

Date:

This application form should be returned by the deadline by email plus a signed hard copy by post.

The email address and postal address to which you should send your form included on the British Council website.

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staff days for each activity
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