The 2025 Irish Aid Global Citizenship Education Grants Call for Proposals is now open
The call for proposals can be found at this link under the ‘Applying for Funding’ tab. It also includes links to the Guidelines, FAQ documents, as well as information on DEAR co-funding.
Key dates include:
- Friday 18 October: Irish Aid Global Citizenship Education Grants Call for proposals published on Irish Aid website.
- Wednesday 06 November at 2.00pm: Irish Aid Information Session on the GCE Grants. If you are interested, please register for the information session by emailing globalcitizenshipeducation@dfa.ie. A link for the videoconference will then follow next week.
- Friday 08 November, 5.00pm, Deadline for receipt of eligibility forms: Please note an important change to the eligibility process: ALL organisations hoping to apply must complete an eligibility form. Eligibility forms can be requested by emailing the Global Citizenship Education Mailbox. Completed eligibility forms must be submitted to the Global Citizenship Education Mailbox. Organisations who fail to meet the eligibility deadline cannot be considered
- Wednesday 13 November: Organisations will be notified of their eligibility
- Thursday 05 December, 12.00pm, Deadline for applications: The completed application form, signed by the legal representative of the organisation (e.g. the CEO or the Chair of the Board) should be e-mailed to the Global Citizenship Education Mailbox. Please note, applications which are received after this date will not be considered. Just so you are aware of the earlier submission deadline - 12 noon rather than 5.00pm as was stated previously.
- It is intended that the appraisal of applications will take place in Quarter 1 2025 and notification of funding decisions will issue
IDEA Support for the Grants Round
- Grants Clinic for Irish Aid Global Citizenship Education Funding Applications will take place Tuesday 12 November, 11.00am – 1.00pm, on Zoom. Find out more...
- Results Frameworks for Beginners Workshop: Instead of a live workshop, IDEA has recorded a session which goes through Results Frameworks for Beginners. This was published on IDEA Youtube channel on Monday 4 November 2024 and is available here
- Improving your Results Frameworks Workshop: This will take place on Tuesday 19 November, 10am - 12pm, online. Find out more...
- IDEA annually produces a resource Results-based Approaches in Development Education - A practical toolkit. This toolkit aims to help practitioners developing Results Frameworks for Development Education/Global Citizenship Education projects. It takes you step by step through the process of building an effective results table to reach the change you want to achieve, within the timeframe of your project. While created to reflect Irish Aid’s Results Framework for Development Education/Global Citizenship Education Grants rounds, the approach outlined in the toolkit can be applied to many other Development Education settings. The toolkit for the 2025 grants round is now available on the IDEA website here.
As in recent years, we are inviting any other actors who are not yet members of IDEA to these training events. All training events are free of charge.
IDEA to Honour President Higgins with Inaugural Global Voice for Humanity Award at Annual Conference
Dates: Thursday 10 July,10.00am-6.00pm and Friday 11 July, 10.00am-3.00pm Location: An Tairseach, Wicklow IDEA is thrilled to open applications for our second iteration of the IDEA's Lab. In this first of its kind residential Lab, we will create space where members can bring their ideas for projects and try out new planning and design methods. Participants will have the opportunity to work on an idea from scratch to (almost) finish with the support of expert trainers and learn through group exchange in a welcoming and inspiring setting. Participants will come out of the training with: An early project design proofed, tested and built through group feedback, iteration, trialling and support. New approaches in designing innovative projects they can apply to their workplace Headspace and time to work on the design of an innovative project A chance to actively learn through group exchange and strengthen the sense of an innovative community of practice in Ireland How? Please email anya@ideaonline.ie to request an application form. Requesting an application form does not commit you to applying. The deadline for returning application form (including organisational sign off letter) is Friday 23 May, midnight . You will find further details in the application form. Participants must register as a team of 2min.- 4 max. Participants without a team member will be asked to pair up with other individual participants or find a partner outside their organisation. Cost : This training is funded by Irish Aid at the Department of Foreign Affairs and offered at a reduced rate. This training is only available to IDEA members. Non-IDEA members can participant as part of an IDEA member team. Fees for members of IDEA is €50 Irish Aid is the Government’s overseas development programme which supports partners working in some of the world’s poorest countries. Irish Aid also supports global citizenship education in Ireland to encourage learning and public engagement with global issues the ideas, opinions and comments expressed in this training are entirely the responsibility of its author(s) and do not necessarily represent or reflect DFA policy. Timeline: Applications open: 07 May Applications close: 23 May, midnight Preparatory session with trainer (30min, online): Mid June Lab arrival: Where possible we advise arrival on Wednesday 09 July in the evening. Accommodation and food will be provided from 09 July, 5.00pm - 11 July, 3.00pm Lab: 10 July,10.00am-6.00pm. 11 July, 10.00am-3.00pm Please don’t hesitate to get in touch at anya@ideaonline.ie if any of the above pose a barrier to your participation, or if you have any other questions.
Wednesday 18 June, 10.00am - 4.00pm
Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1
