Collaboration And Sharing in Education Project (CASE)

The Collaboration And Sharing in Education (CASE) project received funding of almost €25 million under the PEACE IV theme of Shared Education. CASE was open to all schools in the six border counties of Ireland and those in Northern Ireland not involved in the Delivering Social Change Signature Project for Shared Education. 

Through working in partnership, the schools participating in CASE promoted community cohesion, enhanced educational outcomes for all pupils and provided shared professional development. 

Shared education enabled schools from different sectors and communities to work in partnership, providing opportunities for pupils, staff, and the wider community to engage in collaborative and meaningful learning experiences. 

Although the project was hampered by the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020, the CASE team quickly began a new initiative - allowing them to continue supporting schools in their shared education journeys. 

‘Share the Walk’ took advantage of already-established cross-border resources by teaming up pupils, staff and the wider school community with the ‘My Virtual Mission’ app which focused on achieving walking milestones. Each week, participants took virtual walks together and met the challenges the CASE team issued through the app. These tied in with not only the pupils’ wellbeing goals, but also the PE and maths curricula. As permanent reminders of their ‘travels’, pupils created posters of what they had discovered along the way - or their schools planted trees to mark the distances covered by the children.