Our Funding Partners
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SSE Airtricity
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The SSE Airtricity Generation Green Community Fund has been established to support communities across the island of Ireland in their journey towards sustainability. The fund is designed to empower local communities to take an active role in the Green Transition - a collective shift toward greener, more sustainable living.
What motivated you to support ISSN?
The ISSN has been selected as a recipient of the Generation Green Community Fund by SSE Airtricity. Thanks to this support, the ISSN is launch the 'ISSN Sustainability Accelerator Programme' which will significantly increase the number of schools, teachers and students that are supported— and roll out some new and exciting projects.
Where can we find out more?
https://www.sseairtricity.com/communityfund
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SEAI. Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland.
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Our mission is to be at the heart of delivering Ireland’s energy revolution aiming to significantly reduce and replace fossil fuels. We work with citizens, communities, businesses and government to achieve this. Schools and education are a key part of our work – reaching teachers and students with our resources.
What motivated you to support ISSN?
Teachers know what is needed to motivate young people, ISSN is a network for teachers, run by teachers – this is what really attracted us to support their work. And also, because they are 100% committed to inspiring students and other teachers to get involved in climate and biodiversity action. We were delighted to support ISSN in 5 minutes of Sustainability and are now excited to be involved in their Student Ambassador Programme – a much needed initiative for schools across Ireland.
Where can we find out more?
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WorldWise Global Schools
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WorldWise Global Schools (WWGS) is Ireland’s national Global Citizenship Education (GCE) programme for post-primary settings. Funded by Irish Aid, WWGS was established in 2013 to support the integration of GCE at post-primary level in a quality, impactful way.
What motivated you to support ISSN?
The ISSN understands the importance of providing space to think and learn about the root causes of environmental and sustainability issues in order to take impactful and meaningful action. The ISSN has created a fantastic community of practice where both teachers and students collaborate as equals. Their work can involve all year groups, and the online approach allows them to engage with schools across Ireland.
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Our network Partners
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Education Support Centres Ireland (ESCI)
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The Education Support Centres in Ireland (ESCI) is the umbrella organisation for the National Network of Teacher/Education (Support) Centres, which comprises 21 Full-time and 9 Part-time Education Centres. It represents the interest of the Network as a whole including Management, Directors and Staff..
What motivated you to partner with ISSN?
ESCI hosts the ISSN CPD Schedule.
Where can we find out more?
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An Taisce Green Schools
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An Taisce’s Green-Schools’ mission is to protect planet Earth – our shared home to which we all belong – and we want everyone involved! We warmly welcome participants of all backgrounds, cultures, races and ethnicities, religions and belief systems, abilities, sexual orientations and gender identities.
What motivated you to partner with ISSN?
Together we are delivering the Bitesize Biodiversity Series.
Where can we find out more?
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Biodiversity in Schools
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Biodiversity in Schools is Ireland's nature conservation organisation for young people. Our aim is to inspire the next generation to protect nature. We run some of Ireland's largest & most impactful nature programmes for schools. Uniquely, we work with pre, primary, secondary & home-schools across the entire island of Ireland. We collaborate with partners across education & business to deliver hugely impactful change. We're also Ireland's largest supplier of nature resources for schools.
What motivated you to partner with ISSN?
We are delighted to work with the ISSN as they bring a wonderful new energy and positivity to the topic of sustainability in schools. The fact that they are an organisation run by teachers for teachers means they have a unique perspective on education and are able to take the most impactful steps to progress sustainability education.
Where can we find out more?
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Global Action Plan Ireland
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Our mission is to inspire and support people throughout Ireland to become environmental changemakers we work with schools, communities and businesses. We offer workshops, develop educational resources, curate two community gardens and support people and groups to advocate for change.
What motivated you to partner with ISSN?
We contribute to the CPD Sessions and Climate and Nature Summit.. We firmly believe that schools should be sites of learning through and for climate action. We have deep appreciation of the grassroots nature of the ISSN, and how it creates space for teachers and learners to grow, and this very closely aligns with our organisation's principles. We love the ambition and vision of the ISSN and are delighted to collaborate with them on the ISSN.
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