The ASEAN-UK Advancing Creative Economy programme aims to strengthen the creative economies of ASEAN member states through collaboration with the UK. It focuses on professional development, knowledge exchange, and building networks of policymakers and creative practitioners in both regions.
Supporting creative professionals and policymakers
Our programme is committed to empowering creative professionals and policymakers, fostering collaboration, and facilitating knowledge exchanges between the UK and ASEAN.
The programme consists of three strands:
- Professional development courses
These courses will focus on creative economy policy development and festival development and management, offering tailored programmes to support the growth journey of policymakers, festival producers and creative professionals. - Knowledge exchange between the UK and ASEAN
This strand aims to facilitate meaningful exchanges and collaborations between the two regions through delegations to the UK for ASEAN festival managers and policy development roundtables. - Research into the ASEAN arts sector
Research initiatives include a regional perception poll, mapping of the arts and creative technology landscape in ASEAN, and mapping of ASEAN festivals, which provide valuable insights for future collaborations and initiatives.
The ASEAN-UK Advancing Creative Economy initiative also delivers on ASEAN’s Connectivity agenda, with people-to-people connectivity as one of the priorities under the ASEAN Master Plan on Connectivity.
Our Partners
The ASEAN-UK Advancing Creative Economy is co-funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the British Council and delivered in partnership with the ASEAN Secretariat. Our initiative will support the implementation of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint 2025 and the ASEAN Strategic Plan for Culture and Arts 2016-2025.
