Agenda

  • 9:30am - Registration, Tea & Coffee

    Registration, Tea & Coffee 


  • 10:00am - Welcome by Elaine Mahon, Acting Director, IDEA


  • 10:10am - Keynote address: What Difference Does Global Education Make?

    Reflections to mark 20 years of IDEA and on Future Directions including Q&A  


    Dr. Eilish Dillon, Department of International Development, Maynooth University

  • 11.00am - Tea & Coffee Break

    Tea & Coffee Break

  • 11:20am - Panel Session: Current context and considerations for the future of GCE including Q&A

    This session will be moderated by Pierre Yimbog, Co-founder and Managing Director of Black & Irish and Company Secretary, IDEA. 


    Panellists include:

    • Dr. Lilian Nwanze-Akobo: Director of the Higher Diploma in Further Education (HDFE) Programme, Maynooth University
    • Niall Tierney: Director, Global Programmes and Global Citizenship Education Unit, Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Sarah Kelleher: CEO of Lourdes Youth & Community Services (LYCS)
    • Mohammad Naeem: Former UN Youth Delegate of Ireland

  • 12:40pm - Conversation Circles including panellists and other speakers

    Conversation Circle will be led by the following speakers:

    • Hilary Darcy and Thomas McDonagh, Financial Justice Ireland.
    • Tony Daly, 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World.
    • Mohammad Naeem, Activist.
    • Dr. Lilian Nwanze-Akobo, Maynooth University.
    • Dr. Eilish Dillion, Maynooth University.
    • Sarah Kelleher, LYCS.
    • Pierre Yimbog, Activist & Entrepreneur.

  • 1:30pm - Lunch in Gymnasium (main hall)


  • 2:30pm - Workshop Sessions: Charting the future of GCE

    There will be four parallel workshops led by the following facilitators:


    • The network we want: How IDEA members act together  with Mark Cumming 
    • Envisioning the future of GCE  with Vicky Donnelly 
    • Decolonising Justice: Connecting racial equity, philanthropy, and migration for a global Ireland with Bronwyn April and Mdahyelya Bassi 
    • A Guiding Principles approach to laying the foundation for GCE with Laura Power

  • 4:30pm - Closing Ceremony: 20 ideas for the next 20 years – feedback from the workshops


  • 5:00pm - Evening Reception including musical performance by Kate O’Callaghan



  • 6:00pm - End