Partnerships
Community Foundation Ireland:
The Neoen Community Benefit Grant supported us to to install treenets on our campus.
Erasmus Partnership:
Rethinking learning:
a holistic approach to education through wellbeing [concluded October 2025]
KA-210 SCH SMALL SCALE PARTNERSHIP
Project number: 2023-1-ES01-KA210-SCH-000152858
Wicklow Democratic School is currently partnered with two other alternative education organisations, Acompañando el Ser in Spain and Gaia Hariduse Selts in Estonia.
The participating organisations have a common objective: to drift away from the traditional paradigm of teaching-learning, as well as from the lack of family
engagement in the modern society.
This main goals of this partnership are to develop training and educational resources:
1) to support professional development for holistic education teachers, providing them with tools, strategies and resources that help fostering children’s active learning
2) to provide families with skills to both understand and sup
port self-centred learning and assume a responsible role in the growth of their children.
The program “Rethinking learning: a holistic approach to education through wellbeing” is co-funded by the European Union. The opinions and views expressed on this website are those of the author Wicklow Democratic School and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Erasmus+ Spanish National Agency (SEPIE). The European Union and SEPIE cannot be held responsible for the information contained therein, or for any use that may be made of the information.
Research Ireland:
Research Ireland (formerly the Irish Research Council) funded one of our staff members to complete a PhD as part of an Employment-Based Partnership Programme. The four-year partnership between Wicklow Democratic School, University College Dublin and the Researcher resulted in a completed PhD dissertation on Community Wealth Building.
Wicklow County Council:
The 2025 Tree Grant funded us to plant native hedges around the perimeter of our green space. These hedges will grow into a natural privacy barrier for the school campus, while supporting local biodiversity.
