UK Young Design Entrepreneur award 08

Are you the UK’s young design entrepreneur 2008?

Are you passionate about design, an innovator looking for entrepreneurial ways to move the UK design industry forward? Are you looking to broaden your international business opportunities and to build your network? Want to know more about the business of design in India? If this sounds like you then you could be the inaugural winner of this prestigious new award from the British Council, with support from the Cultural Leadership Programme.

To be eligible for the award, you must be aged between 25 and 35, have at least three years of industry experience and be resident in the UK.

You can download and application form and the guidance notes here.

Applications close at noon on Thursday 14 August 2008.

UKYDE is the newest award in the British Council’s Young Creative Entrepreneur programme. The programme began in 2004.

There are now nine international awards, for young creative entrepreneurs in the communications, design, fashion, interactive, music, performing arts, publishing, screen and visual arts sectors. The breadth of these awards ensures that all of the creative industries are covered by this programme.

UKYDE is one of nine awards for young creative entrepreneurs that are being developed by the British Council with support from NESTA, the Cultural Leadership Programme, trade associations and professional bodies within the creative sector.

Our partner in the UKYDE award is the Cultural Leadership Programme.

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