What: The Charles Wallace India Trust invites entries for the year 2009 for its Arts and Heritage Conservation Awards.

The Trust offers approximately 15 fully funded awards in the Arts and Heritage Conservation every year in order to give practitioners in these fields, at an early stage in their careers, a chance to gain wider experience and exposure or to study. The balance between Arts and Heritage Conservation varies from year to year depending on demand and performance at interview.

These awards cover international fares, accommodation and living costs in the UK and fees where they are payable.

Arts Award
The Charles Wallace India Trust supports successful applications from practitioners working in the Arts to attend short courses or one year academic programmes of their choosing and in the following fields: visual arts, music, drama, dance, film, photography and design (with the exception of architecture).

Heritage Conservation Award
The Charles Wallace India Trust supports successful applications from heritage conservation specialists for programmes of upto one academic year in the following fields:

Subjects covered include:

• Management of heritage projects or sites;
• Conservation of materials such as timber, stone, brick, metal (including metal structures), textiles, paper, armour, photographs and film;
• Management of museums.

Applications for short-term internships or programmes of visits can be considered but it is the applicant's responsibility to make all professional and practical arrangements, including accommodation and travel in the UK.

Length of Awards
Awards are generally from three months to a maximum of one academic year.

Eligibility
Applicants should

• Be Indian citizens domiciled and resident in India
• Be aged between 25 and 38
• Have completed their first degree/diploma or professional qualification in their specialisation and have at least four years working experience
• Not have received CWIT grant within the last five years

Applications should include

• Completed application form, including a statement of purpose stating clearly what they want to do in the UK and how they plan to put this to use on returning to India
• Supporting references
• Acceptance letter from the course or programme in the UK to which they have applied or evidence that progress towards acceptance has been made
• Demonstrate a good working knowledge of English
• Portfolio submission in either on CD/DVD, slide or hard-copy format.  

Last date for applications is October 31, 2008.

Further details
For further details on the awards and to apply visit: http://www.britishcouncil.org/india-scholarships-cwit-listing-full.htm

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