Apply for UWC Endorsement

Once you've absorbed all of the information and supporting documentation in this resource platform, and worked with the short courses team at UWC International, you should be ready to apply for UWC endorsement of your short course. To do this, you need to fill out the online form provided below. If you've not yet been in contact with the UWC short courses team, please contact them to discuss your short course plans before filling out the form.

The process involves you filling out forms based on various areas of your course, submitting documentation as part of these forms, and receiving feedback from UWC International or being asked to clarify some points.

The forms are aligned with the sections of this resource platform:

• Building a Team

• Theme and Curriculum

• Logistics and Risk Assessments

• Budgeting and Fundraising

• Partners

• Promotion and Participant Recruitment

• Mentoring and Support

• Proof of insurance - proof of insurance is required to support your risk assessments and prove that your venue complies with legal norms and is suitable to host a UWC short course. If you do not yet have this (usually due to not having secured a venue), you can submit it at a later stage.

• Information on the location and venue - this allows UWC International to get a feel for the short course and understand whether the proposed venue will be fit for purpose, safe, well connected and accessible etc. This can be provided in a document which includes a link to the venue's website, their brochure, photographs which you've taken whilst visiting etc. If you do not yet have a venue, please leave blank - you will have the opportunity to submit this in the Post-Endorsement form.

• Preliminary course budget - you need to submit your course budget and potential funding avenues to UWC International. This determines the sustainability and viability of your short course.

• A letter of support from the UWC entity(s) local to your short course - you do not have to collaborate, per se, formally with the NC(s) or school/college, but as the representative UWC entity in any given country or territory, the NC (and in some cases school/college) should be aware and in support of the short course.

• Proof and details of support if you're partnering with an external organisation - you may be working with partners to fund, promote or otherwise, your short course. UWC International needs written proof of their support for your short course, and high level details of what the support entails.

• Links to your website/social media (if applicable) - if you have these at this stage, you should share them as they may support your application.

Post-Endorsement

This information will be submitted in the same endorsement form only in an additional section ('Post-Endorsement'). This includes:

• Information on the venue and proof of insurance - if you haven't already as part of the endorsement application.

• Facilitator and coordinator vacancies - these will then be published to the UWC International website on the jobs and opportunities page.

• Promotional brochure - for promotional purposes.

• 3-5 high-quality, original images - for promotional purposes.

• High quality video (if available) - for promotional purposes.

• Completed website promotion template - for promotional purposes. This will be published to the current short courses page on the UWC website, along with the promotional brochure, quality images and video. The template can be found in the UWC Branding and Promotion section of the resource platform. 

• Email addresses of organisers, coordinators and facilitators

Post-Course

Finally, once you've delivered your short course you need to file your end of year report. This helps us to get a complete picture of UWC short courses in any given year. This will ask you to provide information such as:

• Participant information - such as how many applications you received, how many participants you had and what the gender split was, whether you had any dropouts, were there any behaviour or engagement issues, whether language was an issue and how you overcame this etc.

• Facilitator information - similar to above, including the team cohesion and level of professionalism.

• Progress against objectives - you'll be asked to provide feedback on whether your objectives were met or not.

• Your final curriculum - this will contribute to the overall knowledge which surrounds UWC short courses and their ongoing professionalisation.

• Reflections - you'll be asked what the highlights were according to you, the facilitators and the participants, what you learnt from this project, what key challenge(s) you overcame, and what the key achievements were.

• UWC International support - we'd like to know how you found UWC International office support, or lack of, across various aspects of organising and delivering your course, and thus how we can improve for next year.

• Resources - we'd like you to consider sharing some of your best resources, such as workshop ideas or documents which you published, so we can continue to update and improve the resource platform for you and your peers.

• Feedback and photos - we'd also like you to provide quotes and images from your short course which we can use in communications materials throughout the year, such as UWC newsletters which go out to the whole movement each month with a different theme.