The STAND Changemakers Academy Showcase 2024

Join us for the Showcase of the inaugural year of the STAND Changemakers Academy. Come to celebrate, hear about participants’ journeys and learn about the creative solutions that have emerged in partnership with Concern Worldwide, Black and Irish, Slí Waterford and Amnesty International.

STAND News is looking for writers

Join STAND News, the platform that empowers students and recent graduates to share their voices and stories on global issues. We’re recruiting Contributors who are eager to expand their skills and craft engaging content.

Get involved with the STAND Student Festival

We are looking for students to help out at the STAND Student Festival. We’d absolutely love your support and you’ll get to be part of a team and have GREAT FUN into the bargain. Learn when the festival is arriving at your campus and join us!

STAND is an initiative of Suas Educational Development

STAND celebrates the power of ordinary people to change the world.

With us, third level students in Ireland can share ideas about standing up for justice and equality, learn more about global issues, and build action projects for positive change. 

WHAT WE DO

 

STAND NEWS

A dynamic student-led journalism platform for readers to learn more about global issues while focusing on stories of justice, equality and international development

IDEAS COLLECTIVE

STAND’s summer bootcamp for changemakers! Join us for 3 weekends of training, collaboration and reflection to help you develop impactful action projects for social and environmental change… and be in with a chance to win seed funding!

STAND STUDENT FESTIVAL

The STAND Student Festival has been bringing award-winning photography and film to campuses across Ireland, with the aim of raising awareness about the burning issues shaping the world around us

GLOBAL ISSUES COURSES

Part time evening courses that explore the interdependent and unequal world in which we live, through a process of interactive learning, debate, action and reflection

STAND CHANGEMAKERS ACADEMY

Dive into interactive sessions, experiential learning opportunities, and thought-provoking discussions that will challenge your assumptions and expand your horizons with the STAND Changemakers Academy.

10,000 STUDENTS

A STAND and Union of Students in Ireland project that launches new campaigns to motivate small actions that can equate to one big change. 

WE BELIEVE IN

Standing against
injustice and inequality in all its forms

People in Ireland and all over the globe are fighting for a more equal and just society. We are committed to sharing their stories and adding our voices to theirs.

Standing together
with those who are marginalised

Millions of people worldwide are facing intolerance and persecution, fleeing violence and war, living in poverty and dying of hunger. We are committed to showing solidarity with them.

Standing up
for a better, fairer world

Our actions have the power to change the world. We are committed to exploring the ways in which we can all come together as global citizens to take action for social and environmental justice.

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