IDEA Training & Events
Every year IDEA runs a programme of Training & Events based on our members needs. We also facilitate Working Group and Task Group meetings, practice sessions, knowledge sharing sessions, and policy development sessions.
IDEA Events Calendar
Autumn/Winter 2021
September
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14-15 & 21-22
Active Hope Training
Led by Chriszine Backhouse & Eimear McNally, Creativity & Change
9.30am – 12.00 noon
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30
Housing Inequality, Finance and the Global South: making local-global links real in Development Education in Ireland
Led by Éilis Ryan
12.00 – 3.30pm
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October
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05
Member Knowledge Share: Just care: Just Volunteering - sharing of new Development Education resource
Led by Emma Lynch, Tearfund Ireland
10.00am
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12
Member Knowledge Share: Working with Decolonial Pedagogies: reflections on recent experience
Led by Sive Bresnihan, Comhlámh
10.00am
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19
Member Knowledge Share: SDG Roadshow 2021
Led by Nick Doran, Development Perspectives
10.00am
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26
Member Knowledge Share: The Circular Economy: Applications for Development Education
Led by Sarah Clear, Rediscovery Centre
10.00am
November
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02
Member Knowledge Share: An Introduction to the Code of Good Practice for Development Education
Led by Elaine Mahon, IDEA
10.00am
IDEA Final Evaluation: Members Focus Group
2.00-4.00pm via Zoom
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09
Member Knowledge Share: Overview of Assessment Toolkit for Global Learning (Formal Education Sector)
Led by Anna Grindle, Centre for Global Education
10.00am
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16
Member Knowledge Share: A data-driven journey into the Leaving Cert Applied programme
Led by Meaghan Carmody, Financial Justice Ireland
10.00am
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23
Member Knowledge Share: Plan's Youth Advisory Panel
Led by Ashley Westpheling, Plan International Ireland
10.00am
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26
Webinar: Future trends in Development Education
Led by Audrey Bryan, Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Human Development, Dublin City University
12.30-2.00pm
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30
Member Knowledge Share: Education and solidarity with the Palestinian people
Led by Moira Leydon. ASTI, & John O'Brien, INTO
10.00am
Spring/Summer 2021
February
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02
Member Knowledge Share: Just care: Just Volunteering
Led by Emma Lynch, Tearfund Ireland
10.00am
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09
Members’ Coffee Morning
10.00am
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16
Member Knowledge Share: Covid-19 and Overseas Development Work
Led by Breda Gahan, Concern & Deirdre McArdle, Trócaire,
10.00am
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23
Member Knowledge Share: Development Education and Gaming
Led by Stephen Farley, Trócaire
10.00am
March
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02
Member Knowledge Share: An Overview of ETB Adult Education Services
Led by Melíosa Bracken, City of Dublin Education and training Board (CDETB)
10.00am
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09
Member Knowledge Share: STAND's Global Citizenship Programme
Led by Caitríona Rogerson, Suas/STAND
10.00am
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16
Member Knowledge Share: The DICE Project
Led by Helen Concannon, DICE Project
10.00am
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23
Member Knowledge Share: Development Education/Global Citizenship Education in Europe
Led by Patricija Virtič, Bridge 47
10.00am
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30
Member Knowledge Share: Code of Good Practice for members interested in sign up in 2021
Led by Elaine Mahon, IDEA
2.30pm
April
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13
Blazing a Trail: A Code of Good Practice for Development Education
Led by Elaine Mahon, IDEA
2.00-3.00pm
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14 & 20
Evaluating your Development Education online
Led by Harm-Jan Fricke
10.00am – 12.00pm
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27 - 29
Purposeful Partnerships – Engaging new sectors in GCE
Led by Orla Devine & Ji-Hyun Kim, Bridge 47
9.30 - 11.15am
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May
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11
Briefing for new Code of Good Practice for Development Education members
Led by Elaine Mahon, IDEA
10.30 - 11.30am
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11
Reporting to the Charities Regulator
Led by Vikki Brennan & Ben Mallon, IDEA National Council
12.00 – 1.00pm
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21
The Emergence of Development Education in Ireland
Led by Dr Eilish Dillon, Maynooth University, & Adrienne Boyle
12.30 – 2.00pm
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