Current projects
IDEA facilitates project collaborations between its members; co-hosts events with its members; and supports members' projects that meet its current project criteria by offering its stamp of approval (to enable such members to increase their fundraising capacity and international profile).
International Young IDEA Project
IDEA's flagship project for 2007-2010 integrates new Young IDEA and Solidarity policies based on our past six World Congresses. The International Young IDEA Project brings young artists and professional drama/theatre education directors together in four distinct intercultural workshops towards a multicultural performance at the IDEA 2010 World Congress in Brazil.
Drama for Learning and Creativity (D4LC)
This successful project was started by a member organisation (National Drama) in the UK in 2005 and then started in Iceland renamed SNIGL in 2006, before being presented to IDEA for formal acceptance in 2007 as a project that fulfils the IDEA project criteria. Other countries can apply to start a D4LC. Poland held its first D4LC Conference in 2010.
D4LC involves pairs of teachers, in groups of schools being supported and trained in a sustained way, to use drama as a pedagogy. The teachers can carry out supported action research and judge the impact of drama on children's learning and creativity. They document and share their outcomes and best practice. D4LC presentations and workshops have taken place in the UK, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Iceland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Poland,
Once IDEA accepted D4LC it was able to be presented at the World Creativity Summits in Taipei and Newcastle (UK) as well as in Seoul (South Korea) at the UNESCO 2nd World Arts in Education Conference and at the Arts for Education Symposium in Essen (Germany).