Projects

Through our portfolio of projects and programme work, 80:20 works in partnership with a range of organisations, structures and groups seeking to participate in and reflect civil society responses regarding our role(s) and responsibilities in the world.


Questions Matter: tackling disinformation and boosting media literacy

The Questions Matters project aims to challenge the spread of misinformation by promoting critical media literacy in an increasingly polarised world and build the knowledge, capacity and confidence of adult literacy tutors to embed active citizenship through education.


The Girl Who Lost Her Country

80:20 is delighted to be involved in the development of this book for children to learn about statelessness published by the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion.


Catch Them If You Can: transfers from poor to rich is the rule, not the exception

A community project that invites people to learn about and take action on how financial transfers from the poor to the rich is the rule, not the exception


Use Your Art Gender Inequality poster series

Thirty-six students from the Peace and Justice group in Loreto Secondary School Bray, in conjunction with 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World, launched a poster art series on March 8th, 2019 on International Women’s Day on the themes of women’s rights and ‘on this day’ historical events. A central idea to the posters … More Use Your Art Gender Inequality poster series


#BeyondTheClick: a teaching toolkit exploring Global Digital Citizenship

The explosion of fake news and (often deliberate) misinformation in recent years and its spread into digital landscapes and public life has caused many teachers and educationalists to pause and take notice. Are the efforts of traditional journalism, national authorities and broadcasting media enough to stem the tide of fake news? Yet, we cannot separate … More #BeyondTheClick: a teaching toolkit exploring Global Digital Citizenship


17 Goals. 1 School. And Minecraft.

Over the course of 2017, a group of students led a design experiment: to see what a school might look like if the meaning and ambition of the globally agreed Sustainable Development Goals were realised in their school. The team of 37 student-activists used the popular computer game Minecraft as a digital learning tool to … More 17 Goals. 1 School. And Minecraft.


Let’s Talk

Let’s Talk is an education and action project which involves young people discussing, debating and taking action on issues of conflict, peace, reconciliation, climate change, sustainable development and justice in Ireland and beyond.


developmenteducation.ie

80:20 works in partnership with a consortium of non-governmental organisations including Aidlink, Concern Worldwide, Self Help Africa, the Irish Development Education Association (IDEA), National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) and Trócaire to support a collaborative online project, developmenteducation.ie, focused on the unequal and unjust nature of the world today. developmenteducation.ie offers resources to stimulate debate and discussion about … More developmenteducation.ie


Human Rights Summer School, Sliema (2004-2017)

In July each year, in collaboration with the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies (MEDAC) at the University of Malta, 80:20 organised a summer school on human rights issues for diplomats, non-governmental organisation personal and students in Sliema, Malta. The Human Rights Summer School had five major strands: To identify and explore the nature of the … More Human Rights Summer School, Sliema (2004-2017)