These two panel discussions featured contributions from a range of people involved in Creative Youth initiatives – such as the Creative Schools programme and the Local Creative Youth Partnerships – and provided an invaluable insight into the roll-out of the Creative Youth Plan to date. 

If you missed these panel discussions you can watch them back here: 

The findings of the panel discussions events will feed into Creative Youth’s high level conference  Creativity- a connection to our future now that will be held at Dublin Castle on the 13 May 2021

This event will be opened by the Taoiseach, and will also include contributions from the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, the Minister for Education, Norma Foley and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’ Gorman.

The main conference will also feature two panel discussions with contributions from a national and international guests including Andreas Schleicher (OECD), Michelle Cullen (Accenture), Arlene Forster (National Council for Curriculum and Assessment), Dr Anne Looney (DCU), Bo Stjerne Thomsen (The LEGO Foundation), author Roddy Doyle, Helene Hugel (Helium Arts) and Prof Linda Doyle (TCD).

Registration for the event is now open at:

Creativity – the connection to our future, now – Thursday 13 May