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Whether you are a student just starting your journey as an entrepreneur, an educator aiming to develop insprirational approaches to teaching, or someone with business experience wanting to empower the next generation of innovators, creativespark.uz has something for you!
Book onto a professional development event
Our programme of events includes workshops and talks on topics ranging from ideation for beginners, to bootcamps for creating a 60 second video pitch, to training for higher education professionals wanting to develop their teaching. Visit our events page to book.
Get involved with our repository of international learning materials.
We are building a repository of world class entrepreneurship learning resources for Uzbekistan. Download materials to enhance your teaching, or upload your own contribution here.
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Check out our news feed to read the latest updates about Uzbekistan Entrepreneurship education in Uzbekistan and from the Creative Spark Higher Education Partnership. Follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with the latest research and events
What is Creative Uzbekistan?
Creative Uzbekistan is a new initiative that has grown out of the British Council’s Creative Spark programme. It aims to boost the creative economy by developing an online platform for sharing best practice in entpreneurship education between Uzbekistan and UK higher education institutions.
The British Council’s Creative Spark: Higher Education Enterprise Programme is a five-year initiative to financially support international university and institutional partnerships that promote enterprise skills and creative economy capacity across seven countries in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan), South Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia) and Ukraine through UK support.
The programme has been developed build on existing strengths in the creative sector and meet demand for entrepreneurship training, supporting wealth and job creation.
Creative Spark has three key elements:
- Development of the funded partnerships between universities and creative institutions in the UK and those in programme countries
- Delivering enterprise skills training packages to students and creative entrepreneurs, ranging from pitching ideas and starting a business, to protecting intellectual property and securing financial support – this will be further developed through a ‘video pitch’ competition, open to 100,000s of students across the programme countries next summer, with UK based professional development courses as prizes
- Delivering an English Learning Programme with a range of new digital language learning content. This will include online learning packs on the English Channel platform, online courses and new Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) focused on English for entrepreneurship
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