Global Programs

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EREA Global Programs

EREA offers programs and initiatives that link schools, educators and students with the global community.

These links include student and educator online networks and joint leadership programs, that link and partner Edmund Rice schools around the world. Each program in based on the Edmund Rice Charism, and promotes the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Vatican Compact of Education, and UNESCO's Futures of Education. 

From Waterford to the World: EREA Global Engagement Programs 2026-2028

This booklet provides an overview of EREA's Global Engagement Programs, organsied under: The EREA Global Leader; The Global Classroom; The EREA Global Staffroom; and The EREA Global School 

EREA schools are an active part of Edmund Rice Education Beyond Borders - a network 281+ schools across 21 countries. 

It provides opportunities for our students and young people to learn from, with and about other countries while collectively building a better world for all. 

EREA Global Programs for Leaders 

EREBB Global Congress

Frequency: Every 3 years

2026 Host: Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Contact: global@erea.edu.au

 

EREBB Leadership Symposium

Frequency: Held every year 

2026 Host: Cape Town, South Africa 

Contact: global@erea.edu.au

 

EREA Pilgrimage - Ireland and Rome

Frequency: Held every year 

2026: 4-14 October 

Contact: global@erea.edu.au

EREA Global Leadership Immersions

Frequency: Held every year 

2027: Kenya/India and Ireland (Venue TBC) 

Contact: global@erea.edu.au

EREBB New Teachers' Global Network

Frequency: Every Term (online)

Contact: info@erebb.org 

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EREBB Global Staffroom

Frequency: Every Term (online)

Contact: info@erebb.org 

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EREA Global Programs for Students and Young People

EREBB Global Classroom Partners

Would you like your students to have the opportunity to meet and dialogue with other young people from around the world, and to raise their voices for a better world for all? The EREBB Global Classroom Partners’ Program links classrooms from Edmund Rice schools, to learn from, with and about each other, while exploring some of the world’s most pressing issues. 

Groups of students (with their teacher) undertake two lessons and have two video conferences with a global classroom partner. These connections are facilitated to ensure deep dialogue can occur and are based around the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Vatican Global Compact on Education. 

Contact: info@erebb.edu.au 

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EREBB Student Leaders Global Dialouge

An opportunity for student leaders to meet and share with other young people from Edmund Rice schools around the world - in an educator-facilitated, online forum. 

Contact: info@erebb.org 

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EREA Partnership: Desmond Tutu Courageous Leadership Program

EREA and EREBB is proud to partner with the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation to offer the Demond Tutu Courageous Leadership Program. 

The program is an online global leadership short course for young people. The course comprises five short modules, with each focusing on one quality of courageous leadership exemplified in Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s life.

Through this course, young people will discover just how powerful their everyday actions can be in building a life of courageous leadership.

Young people will have the opportunity to share with young people from Edmund Rice schools around the world, through educator-facilitated online dialogues.

Contact: info@erebb.org 

 

School Based Global Youth Leadership Immersions

Individual EREA schools offer global youth leadership immersions for students at their schools, that link young people around the world and form global citizens. 

Contact: Individual EREA Schools  

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