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.
Wednesday 18 June, 10.00am - 4.00pm
Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1
Last week, IDEA hosted the second webinar from our 2025 series, ‘Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education, ' focusing on Palestine. If you missed out, you can watch the full video below!
At the end of March, IDEA staff and representatives from three IDEA members travelled to Riga, Latvia, for a two-day event marking the launch of IDEA’s Erasmus+ project with our partner LAPAS (Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation) focused on the IDEA Code of Good Practice The project’s core objective is to enhance the quality of global citizenship education (GCE) at local , national and European levels. Central to this work is the creation of a Code of Good Practice for Latvia based on learning from the IDEA Code that will support Latvian GCE practitioners, including teachers, NGOs, youth workers and others, by fostering a common understanding and approach to GCE. This represents the first piloting of the IDEA Code in an international context. The new IDEA task group for the project, made up of Code members, alongside IDEA staff, are supporting LAPAS members to adapt the Code for the Latvian national context by sharing our own experiences and learnings from the Code and GCE in Ireland. The event in Riga was the first in-person gathering of the project, bringing together LAPAS and IDEA members. This face-to-face interaction allowed us to begin the process of knowledge exchange, and mutual learning which will spread the Code’s reach and strengthen our GCE practice. IDEA was represented in Riga by Dean Oke (CDYS (Cloyne Diocesan Youth Service), Georgina Eastaugh (Concern Worldwide) and Claire Glavey (Global Village), alongside IDEA staff Elaine and Aine.
