Cross-Sector Partnerships

IDEA led the Bridge 47 Project's partnerships work, that focused on Cross-Sector collaboration. This led to the development of 21 partnerships by Global Citizenship Education organisations across Europe with academic researchers, adult educators, policy makers, the media, trade unions, and the private and public sectors. The learning from these partnerships has been captured in the publications, videos, case studies and other resources below, to support Global Citizenship Educator's who are interested in collaborating with organisations outside of the sector.

Bridge 47 Global Event - Imagine 4.7:

Partnerships beyond the Comfort Zone

In this video you can hear directly from partners from the health, museum and private sectors and their CSO partners about their experience of cross-sector partnerships with organisations working in Global Citizenship Education.

Academia

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This publication ‘Building Knowledge Exchange Partnerships Dialogues Across Europe’ shares some of the experiences from Bridge 47's CSO and academic partners.

The Bridge 47 Knowledge Exchange Partnerships led by EADI were also the basis for supporting a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to provide online learning on global citizenship.

Adult Education

This case study shares learnings from the partnership between SLOGA and the Slovenian Institute of Adult Education.

Business

Watch partners Deloitte Ireland and the Irish Development Education Association (IDEA) talk about their GCE workshops for Deloitte staff in the video above. Read more from Deloitte in their blog.

Hear from CSOs and Businesses in Northern Ireland that attended our Building Bridges event in partnership with Business in the Community Northern Ireland. For further inspiration, read this case study about how the partnership developed.

Check out this practical guide to initiating and building GCE partnerships with the private sector.

Coalitions

Front cover of Building Cross-Sectoral Cooperation - Estonian Coalition for Sustainable DevelopmentPublication

The Estonian Coalition for Sustainable Development in Latvia is a great example of a cross-sectoral cooperation on Global Citizenship Education and sustainable development and a way of sharing knowledge. Read more about it in their publication.

Health

IDEAS and Scotdec, in partnership with the Global Health Coordination Unit at the National Health Service Scotland developed Active Global Citizenship resources and training for NHS staff.

You can listen to Charlotte from Scotdec and Emily from NHS Scotland talk about their partnership in this 2 minute video. Find out more about the partnership in this case study and Emily's article in the Scotsman newspaper.

Media

Check out this case study of the partnership between AKÜ and the Estonian National Broadcasting Company where pre-documentary clips on themes of human rights and sustainable development were created collaboratively and shown to thousands. You can view the clips here.

Museums

Get inspired by Inga Surgunte from the Latvian Museum Association in the short video above about her Global Citizenship Education partnership with the Centre for Education Initiatives. Read more in her blog.

Police

Bridge 47 commissioned an international police training consultant and Global Citizenship Education (GCE) experts to develop some practical guidance and reflective questions for CSOs on the potential of GCE partnerships with the police.

See Global Citizenship Education and the Police for questions and practicalities to consider when engaging in a partnership with the police sector.

Policy Makers

Front Cover of Outcomes-focused Policy Making in Scotland Toolkit

Our partnership with Women for Election in Ireland resulted in a training pack for those wishing to train local councillors on the SDGs using GCE approaches.

Listen to Irish Senator Alice-Mary Higgin's podcast in which she talks about why the SDGs matter to local politicians and why local politicians matter to the SDGs.

In Scotland, IDEAS managed to get GCE approaches and methods incorporated in a toolkit for policy-makers. Read a blog from their partners in the National Performance Framework Team at the Scottish Government.

Trade Unions

Read about MUNDU’s partnership with the Technical National Union East Jutland, Denmark in our case study and a blog written by our trade union partner.

Hear also from Stephen McCloskey, Director of the Centre for Global Education in Belfast to get his take on GCE-Trade Union Partnerships.

Further Partnership Resources

Front cover of the Out of the Comfort Zone Partnerships Resource

Front cover of the Stronger Together Partnerships Toolkit

“The Belfast event opened up doors to reach different stakeholders. Businesses have significant potential to address the SDGs and injustice generally. As a result, we are now in discussions with a corporate on how we might collaborate and expect to carry out a needs analysis and run some workshops together.”

Members Focus Group
“The Belfast event and the contact with the corporate sector was very exciting and energising.”

Members Focus Group
“The Belfast event was great. It challenged my thinking – I had previously assumed businesses were not interested in the SDGs. It made me realise that they are, which was very uplifting. It would have been very hard for individual members to achieve this level of engagement but IDEA and Bridge 47 showed that it can be done. I want more of it.”

Members Focus Group
“Thanks so much for facilitating such an insightful and informative event. I learnt a lot to take back into the company, but much broader than that I developed contacts which was the aim of the event and there were many stories and personal experiences which will remain with me and help me to have a personal interest in focusing on the SDGs as well as corporate awareness.”

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A ‘Building Bridges’ forum participant
“The event gave them [BITCNI’s members] an understanding why SDGs are also relevant for businesses and also how they could work in partnerships with CSOs to address the Goals. Furthermore, the majority of the event participants reportedly stated that they are now more likely to act in support of SDGs. There is now a greater appreciation of CSOs, including that of the partner who now acknowledges that CSOs are equally professional as the business sector.”

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A BITCNI partner interview captured in the Bridge 47 Evaluation Report
"Women for Election’s main mission is to help more women get elected but we also understand how important it is to sustain them politics. So, we are thankful for IDEA for approaching us to work together to provide this opportunity to women Councillors."

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Ciairín de Buis, Former CEO of Women for Election
“I learned far more than expected. Mixing with other Local Authority elected members was of great benefit. Excellent, worthwhile training.”

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A local Councillor who attended the ’Political Leadership’ training
“I learned so much about the 17 goals and how I might implement them locally.”

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A local Councillor who attended the ‘Political Leadership’ training

Bridge 47 Global Event - Imagine 4.7:

Partnerships beyond the Comfort Zone

Academia

Adult Education

Business

Coalitions

Health

Media

Museums

Police

Policy Makers

Trade Unions

Further Partnership Resources

“The Belfast event and the contact with the corporate sector was very exciting and energising.”

"Women for Election’s main mission is to help more women get elected but we also understand how important it is to sustain them politics. So, we are thankful for IDEA for approaching us to work together to provide this opportunity to women Councillors."

“I learned far more than expected. Mixing with other Local Authority elected members was of great benefit. Excellent, worthwhile training.”

“I learned so much about the 17 goals and how I might implement them locally.”

IDEAThe Irish Development Education Association6 Gardiner RowDublin 1D01 Y183Phone: 01 8788480

IDEA
The Irish Development Education Association
6 Gardiner Row
Dublin 1
D01 Y183

Phone: 01 8788480