Past Projects
NHS Scotland
Through the Bridge 47 project, IDEAS worked in partnership with NHS Scotland to help bring the values and practices of GCE into Scotland’s public health sector.
IDEAS member Scotdec and the Scottish Global Health Co-ordination Unit developed a range of resources and training opportunities for NHS staff on GCE and the Sustainable Development Goals. These were integrated into the NHS Scotland Active Global Citizenship workstream for use across NHS Scotland.
Active Global Citizenship within NHS Scotland is based on three key principles: the understanding that inequity leads to health inequality; poverty causes poor health; and climate change is a public health emergency.
The workstream aims to increase NHS Scotland’s global health contribution by empowering NHS Scotland staff to participate in global citizenship through their day-to-day work.
A video explaining how Global Citizenship Education and Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development can be used as tools for change. To help us first understand the interconnected issues we face in our world today, and then implement a systemic way of approaching them.
Connecting Classrooms
Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning (2018-2022) was a UK government-funded programme which ran from 2018–2022. Managed by the British Council, it provided free support to schools all over the UK to build meaningful relationships across the globe through learning and collaborating on the big issues that shape our world.
In Scotland, the five Development Education Centres (members of the IDEAS network who provide GCE across all areas of Scotland) were responsible for delivering the professional learning aspects of the programme to Scottish teachers.
Policy Coherence and Global Citizenship
With support from the Bridge 47 project, IDEAS partnered with the National Performance Framework team at Scottish Government, Scotland’s International Development Alliance, Oxfam Scotland and SDG Network Scotland to create a new resource for policymakers. The toolkit was designed to help policymakers consider how different policy areas are informed by, and contribute to the SDGs and Scotland’s National Performance Framework (NPF).
Alongside highlighting the importance of education that is transformative, values-based and lifelong, the resource also underlines how Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development can ensure a joined-up approach to policy making that takes into account the interconnected nature of the issues we face here in Scotland and across the world. This approach supports a better understanding of the ways in which the different dimensions of sustainable development are interconnected. By applying this global citizenship lens, policy makers are better equipped to approach decision making from a holistic and critical standpoint.
Youth Voices in a Sustainable Democracy
In 2019, IDEAS partnered with Project Scotland to provide a way for young people’s voices to be heard on key issues, and to speak directly to decision makers. Over the course of 2019, we worked together with 30 young volunteers to generate and share ideas around the SDGs and how to make government more open for everyone. The project culminated in a parliamentary event in December 2019.
Global Learning Programme (Scotland)
Running from 2013 to 2018, the DfID funded Global Learning Programme (Scotland) provided practical free Global Citizenship and Learning for Sustainability whole school and curriculum support to 6633 teachers across 1637 establishments throughout the country.