MEDIA DIARY NOTICE: MONDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2022
WHAT: The Taoiseach Micheál Martin to launch iCommunity report on all-island collaboration
WHEN: Monday, 3 October, 12noon to 1.30pm
WHERE: Wood Quay Venue, Dublin 8
WHY: The launch of a landmark report on community collaboration across the Island of Ireland. The report captures a vision for increased all-island collaboration based on a series of conversations with communities on challenges that lend themselves to all-island responses, such as:
- climate change and biodiversity loss
- rural connectivity and development
- digital inclusion and remote work, and
- how to scale responses including social enterprise to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic and other emerging crises.
These conversations took place under the banner of iCommunity, a joint initiative of The Wheel and NICVA, and is supported by the Northern Ireland Department for Communities, the Shared Island Unit in the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund.
The report makes clear recommendations on how to achieve all-island collaboration across a number of social and economic areas.
WHO:
- Taoiseach Micheál Martin
- Minister for Communities in Northern Ireland, Deirdre Hargey (MLA)
- Speakers from various community and voluntary groups from across the island
- iCommunity Project Director, Suzie Cahn.
HOW: Media are invited to attend the event and interviews are available. RSVP Gert Ackermann, Communications Manager at The Wheel on 086 1769287 or email gert@wheel.ie.
ABOUT ICOMMUNITY
iCommunity is a collaborative all-island project. It supports non-profits in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to discover and discuss benefits of such collaboration by highlighting examples of existing all-island practice while developing new opportunities to work together on shared challenges.
iCommunity is a joint initiative of The Wheel and NICVA, and is supported by the Northern Ireland Department for Communities, the Shared Island Unit in the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund.
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