About Funding

About WWGS Grant Funding

WorldWise Global Schools (WWGS) provides grant funding to support Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in post-primary settings on the island of Ireland. 

Individual Grants for Post-Primary Education Settings

Annual grant funding is available to support and promote Global Citizenship Education in individual post-primary education settings.

Eligible post-primary education settings for the WorldWise Global Schools programme include post-primary schools, Youthreach Centres and alternative post-primary education setting providers. Find out more...

Cluster School Funds

Annual grant funding is available to support Clusters of schools who wish to collaborate in joint initiatives on Global Citizenship Education. Find out more...

NGOs & Education Networks Funds

Multi-Annual grant funding is available to support NGOs & Education Networks who work on Global Citizenship Education in the post-primary sector on the island of Ireland. Find out more...

Grants Selection Committee

Funding allocations under the WorldWise Global Schools Annual Grant Call are awarded by  an external Grants Selection Committee in line with published assessment criteria. To date this committee has included representation from:

  • Irish Aid
  • Department of Education
  • Trócaire
  • Concern Worldwide
  • CDETB
  • Self Help Africa
  • National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA)

List of Grantees

Details of grant funding awarded by WWGS last year (2024-2025) can be found here.

All grant funding options provided by the WWGS programme are subject at all times to funding availability and eligibility.

WWGS Expense Claims

In addition to grant funding, WWGS provides funding support for schools to reimburse costs incurred through participation in WWGS training and events throughout the school year. This is intended as a contribution towards participation costs that may be incurred by some schools. It covers Teacher Substitution Claims and Travel Expense Claims and further information is available on both of these in our Expense Claims section.