October 2026 – Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool U: International Communications Specialist (China)

International Communications Specialist, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. Deadline: 31 October 2026.

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Write and edit media releases for international media;
• Maintain and build XJTLU’s international media contacts, including handling media enquiries, and capture media contact information in a database shared with other Communications team writers
• Help to develop communication strategies to increase earned media coverage for XJTLU in influential international and English-language Chinese media platforms;
• Organise and participate in media relationship maintenance activities, including one-to-one meetings with international journalists and group media events;
• Discuss, plan and implement annual media promotion packages for the University that are both effective and on budget;
• Invite and host international media covering key University events, including the coordination of schedules, briefings and other logistical requirements as required;
• Write and edit a variety of other materials used in marketing and communications, such as social media posts, student recruitment campaigns, web page content, website news stories and articles, newsletters, event promotion, University background information, video scripts, speeches and reports, and other items;
• Help plan and coordinate content for complex editorial projects targeting international and Chinese audiences such as magazines or annual reports as assigned;
• Edit original English material developed by other departments or translated from Chinese for use on the XJTLU website, in media releases, or other publications while ensuring accuracy, coherent messaging and a consistent voice and style;
• Plan and organise international PR events or campaigns;
• Other duties as assigned.

Creative Europe: Culture Helps Solidarity Grants

Culture Helps Solidarity Grants, Creative Europe Programme, European Union. Deadline: 10 November 2026.

Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає is a Creative Europe-funded project running from October 2025 until March 2028- that empowers Ukrainian arts and cultural professionals to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war. These calls are a part of a longer series of opportunities. Multiple rounds follow across different formats, including rolling individual grants, project-based support linked to learning and training, and additional collaboration grants. Together, these calls create sustained pathways for both care and cooperation, allowing cultural professionals and organisations to plan, recover and continue their work over time rather than through one-off interventions.

Open Call for Second round of Collaboration Grants

Culture Helps Solidarity is launching its second and final call for Collaboration Grants. This call supports international projects that use arts and culture to aid the integration of displaced Ukrainians into host communities, with a strong focus on mental well-being, vulnerable groups, and veterans.

The fund prioritises cross-border partnerships between at least one Ukrainian-led organisation (operating in Ukraine or in exile) and at least one organisation based in a Creative Europe country. Grants of up to €20,000 are available for partnerships of two organisations, and up to €30,000 for partnerships involving three or more partners. The projects should foster intercultural dialogue, professional exchange, and long-term solidarity.

This open call is the second and final call for proposals for collaboration grants. At least 15 international projects will be awarded. Culture Helps Solidarity will continue to open Calls for thematic project grants and individual care grants also in 2027.

ALF: Knowledge for Action 2026 (Egypt)

Call for applications: Knowledge for Action, Anna Lindh Foundation, Alexandria, Egypt. Deadline: 24 October 2026.

The ALF Knowledge for Action (K4A) Programme promotes the production and dissemination of evidence-based and policy-oriented research that addresses relevant dimensions of Intercultural Dialogue in the Euro-Med region. The Programme seeks to enhance the capacity of academic institutions (i.e., think tanks, specialised centres, and universities) to translate knowledge into visible, rigorous and actionable policies and practices that benefit civil society and tackle pressing challenges. In this context, K4A contributes to the broader objectives of the Pact for the Mediterranean by supporting evidence-based knowledge and policy cooperation across the Common Mediterranean Space. The Pact provides a renewed framework for cooperation between the European Union and its Southern Mediterranean partners and seeks to advance a more integrated, prosperous, resilient and secure Euro-Med region.

Selected authors are expected to address one of the following topics. In all cases, proposed Briefs must adopt a clear Euro-Mediterranean perspective and explicitly integrate an intercultural dialogue approach in their analysis and recommendations:

– Higher education cooperation and mobility in the Common Mediterranean Space.
– Bridging skills gaps for inclusive green and digital transitions.
– Culture, sport and sustainable tourism as drivers of shared narratives.
– Civil society–local authorities cooperation and youth participation for inclusive governance.
– Inclusive startup and innovation ecosystems.
– Digital infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, and data economies with a human-centred, intercultural approach.
– Intercultural dimensions of the green and blue transitions: energy, climate and coastal communities.
– Sustainable transport and connectivity corridors as spaces for exchange and cooperation.
– Evidence-based policymaking and shared knowledge platforms.
– Building a people-centred Mediterranean disaster preparedness and resilience community.
– Intercultural dialogue in migration governance.
– Peace, security and trust-building through youth and civil society cooperation.