The Sharing Education Programme is a £3.6 million, three year programme which will promote reconciliation by facilitating collaboration and sharing between the first cohort of specialist schools and their partners Most important, the partnerships will compliment, or better add to, schools' existing key priorities: schools working together, through collaboration, can and will advance our shared aspiration that all schools in Northern Ireland become good schools Rather, we asked only that the partnerships had to contain sustainable, high quality engagement by young people from different cultural traditions and backgrounds Northern Ireland is in a time of unprecedented change and our education system faces significant challenges