Hong Kong Scholarship on the Clore Fellowship Programme 2025
Open for Application Now

The Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) collaborates with the Clore Leadership (CL) of the UK again to launch the “Hong Kong Scholarship on the Clore Fellowship Programme 2025” (“the Scholarship”). The Scholarship aims to nurture local arts management and creative talents to become future leaders that contribute to the development of the arts and the betterment of the society. The Scholarship is now open for application.

The Scholarship will support a maximum of two outstanding, talented and experienced local arts administrators to undertake the Clore Fellowship Programme between September 2025 and May 2026 in the UK. Based on the developmental needs of the scholarship recipient(s), the Clore Fellowship Programme provides a series of intensive leadership training and tailored professional development programme, including a secondment in a UK’s cultural institution for approximately six to eight weeks, professional skills courses, workshops, mentoring and coaching, to further develop their leadership skills and international exposure, and to strengthen their competences to meet the challenges of the new era.

The whole fellowship programme takes approximately five months and covers the following key activities:

The total value of the Scholarship is £35,500 per award of which a bursary of up to £17,750 will be made available to each scholarship recipient to cover the cost of tuition and conference fees, accommodation, subsistence and airfares. The CL will also cover the cost of tuition, accommodation and meals at the two leadership residential courses and matching with a mentor who is a senior figure in the UK cultural field.

The Scholarship is financially supported by the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau. Inaugurated in 2009, the past scholarship recipients not only gained invaluable experience from the programme, but also benefited from learning directly from prominent arts practitioners in the UK.

Interested applicants can download the application guidelines and form from HKADC website: www.hkadc.org.hk. Completed and duly signed application form, together with all required supporting documents, must be emailed to [email protected] by 6pm on 13 February 2025 (Thursday). Late submission or applications submitted via means other than the mentioned above will not be processed.

For enquiries, please contact Ms Chan at 2820 1090 or [email protected].