Global Citizenship Education (GCE) Code of Good Practice & Community of Practice: Ireland & Latvia

The IDEA Code of Good Practice for DE and the strong Community of Practice for GCE in Ireland that has developed around the Code is the first of its kind in Ireland and a trailblazer internationally. This project will support the first piloting of the Code in an international context. A new IDEA task group for the project made up of Code members will share their experience and reflections on the Code with a group of organisations working in GCE in Latvia. IDEA staff and the task group will support the Latvian organisations to adopt the Code for their national context and then to pilot the Code in their organisations. 

Members from the Code communities in Ireland and Latvia will learn from one another and exchange good practices on GCE. This collaboration will take place over a number of in-person and online events. In March, an IDEA delegation of staff and project task group members will provide training and share learning at an early meeting of the Latvian organisations hosted by LAPAS in Riga to support the development of the Code there. A delegation of LAPAS staff and members will then attend the IDEA Code Network meeting in Dublin in June to share their experience of the project so far and to provide an international perspective to conversations on the Code. Lastly, in Autumn, there will be an online bilateral meeting between LAPAS and IDEA members to reflect on the Code together. This will be an opportunity to share our good practices and challenges and to compare the different national contexts for our work. 

The project will also be an opportunity for Code members in Ireland to reflect on the Irish Code and how it can be best used and enhanced, building on learning from our peers in Latvia. The project task group will develop and pilot a new support for or approach to using the Code in Ireland to strengthen it, e.g. a tool, resource, workshop, or adapted (simpler) version of the Irish Code for use by the Code community in Ireland. As always with the Code, ownership remains with the IDEA members, and we want this new Code support to be developed based on the needs and interests of the members. As such, the exact form that this will take is still very open and will be decided in agreement between IDEA Code members and IDEA staff. 

Finally, the project will take the first steps in establishing a pan-European Community of Practice for GCE. Staff and members from both IDEA and LAPAS will attend two European events on GCE to share their reflections and experiences on the project and to promote the Code of Good Practice among practitioners beyond the partner countries. 

For more information please contact code@ideaonline.ie