Tibor Jones is working in collaboration with the University of East Anglia's Faculty of Arts and Humanities to bring its innovative fundraising campaign Think Something Different, into fruition.

The University of East Anglia will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2013. Running in tandem with the Jubilee scholarship fund, Think Something Different will be helping to create the culture of tomorrow through a fund for international scholarships for the most talented graduates to attend the university's Faculty of Arts and Humanities. TSD aims to raise a total of £2m over the next four years.

UEA's Faculty of Arts and Humanities is home to a celebrated Creative Writing programme, one of the first in the country and still the most prestigious, which has produced generations of prize-winning novelists and short-story writers. The work in creative writing is embedded in an innovative Faculty of Arts and Humanities which explores the making of stories in a range of disciplines. The university has become a place where the great stories of the world are welcomed and invented and the success of Think Something Different will ensure its sustainability.

Funding generated by the initiative will be channelled through two strands. It will chiefly be used to create scholarships for talented arts students to attend the university, and it will also be employed to facilitate a network of mentors who will support these talented scholars. Many leading figures in the fields of the Arts and Humanities, such as novelist Ian McEwan, esteemed international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, composer Michael Berkeley, and former director of the National Theatre, Sir Richard Eyre, recognise the significance of UEA on our contemporary cultural landscape and have already offered their support to the campaign by becoming TSD mentors.

In June 2010 the University of East Anglia's campus in Norwich will be host to Cosmopolis, a major international gathering devoted exploring the nature and potential of fundamental human practices. Norwich is a city with one of the richest traditions of stories in the UK, and a city preparing a bid to become the next UNESCO City of Literature. A component of the Think Something Different campaign, Cosmopolis 2010 will have as its theme 'storymaking'. Cosmopolis will reflect on stories from different cultures and different media by bringing together creators of stories from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, exploring the diverse elements that have made up the great stories of recent years.