Build a more inclusive society supporting ECEC educators for the development of socio emotional competences in pre-school children

Project Acronym: BE-CHILD

Project Start Date: 1^st December 2019

Project End Date: 31^st May 2022

Project Total Duration: 30 months

The project BE CHILD /2019-1-IS01-KA201-051137/ is funded by key activity KD2of the programme “Erasmus +”.

The leading organization of the project is HASKOLI ISLANDS - University of Iceland, Iceland.

The project partners are 8 in total and they come from: The Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Italy and Iceland.

The aims of the project are:

•        to increase the socio-emotional competences for early childhood education and care with effective and quality tools;
•        to express their individual talents and interests that will be developed in the later stages of education;
•        to create a more effective connection with disadvantaged classmates and dealing with cultural and linguistic diversity;
•        a proper access to other levels of education and training (transition from primary to primary education);
•        to organize environment in order to enable decision-making and autonomy that in Montessori education can foster concentration, self-confidence and sustainability.

The following intellectual products will be created under the project:

•        Compendium of good practices in teaching social and emotional competences in early childhood education and care - ECEC;
•        BE-CHILD An educational toolkit for early childhood trainers.