Liverpool enterprise experts help build foundations for Ukraine’s creative industry
A Liverpool enterprise consultancy will advise a conference in Ukraine on how to improve entrepreneurial skills throughout the country’s creative industries.
Enterprise Evolution, part of Liverpool-based social enterprise The Women’s Organisation, has been invited to address a conference of sector and educational leaders in Kiev, todayy (February 13).
The event, ‘Higher Education and Enterprise Skills Development for the Creative Industries Ukraine Creative Spark Policy Forum’, has been organised in collaboration with the British Council, the body responsible for improving cultural and educational links with other countries.
The council launched its Creative Spark programme in 2018 as a five-year initiative to support international university and institutional partnerships to develop enterprise skills and creative economies across seven countries in central Asia – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine.
The first year of the programme planned to support more than 10,000 students and young entrepreneurs.
Initiatives included the development of partnerships between universities and creative institutions in the UK with programmes in the seven countries.
There are currently 10 UK universities involved in partnerships with 15 Ukrainian institutions.
Help with developing enterprise skills in students and creative entrepreneurs for pitching ideas and starting a business, and developing an English learning programme using digital platforms such as online courses, has been introduced.
Creative Spark will help embed enterprise activity within Ukraine’s educational curriculum, and support the systems to accelerate growth in entrepreneurial activities across the creative industries.
The conference, which the British Council hopes will become an annual event, will involve around 100 experts, including policy makers from ministries, agencies and funding bodies.
Enterprise Evolution offers internationally-recognised consultants who can add entrepreneurial value to businesses and organisations.
Its work includes long-established links with universities throughout China in encouraging entrepreneurial growth.
Enterprise Evolution principal consultant, Alison Price, will deliver the address at the conference in Kiev.
She said: “I am so looking forward to furthering the work of the British Council and its exciting ‘Bright Spark’ programme.
“The creative industries are vital to any economy and graduate level involvement can be key to scaling up and creating growth ambition across this sector.
“Connecting up our universities and our young people is so important, so it’s a real privilege to be asked to share our UK enterprise practice internationally.”
