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High quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is an essential foundation for children’s wellbeing, lifelong learning, social integration, personal development. However, research suggests that the considerable and growing disparities in access to quality education and increasing segregation in European schools start at a very young age. Children between 0 and 6 years old with a migrant, mi...

What are the ECEC Play Hubs? ECEC Play Hubs are safe Early Childhood Education and Care spaces where relationships between Roma and non-Roma young children and their families are built. They are located in areas that are reachable for both Roma and non-Roma families, and are designed and run by local committees composed by representatives of both communities, school and preschool teachers and loc...

For the very first time, the International ISSA Conference 2017 will take place in Ghent! Very proud and so excited Together with City of Ghent and Ghent University VBJK will host the annual ISSA Conference in Ghent. For Belgian policymakers, researchers, educators, practioners and other professionals involveld this is an unique opportunity to attend. ISSA 2017 explores the major challenges and...

One of the conditions for high quality ECEC is the permanent professional development of the people who work there. What kind of CPD and in-service training gives positive results? What is the meaning of lifelong learning in terms of quality in ECEC provision? VBJK delivers a systematic review: a study to compare and analyse all European research on this issue. Professional growth Giving practi...

Transities, zoals de overgang van thuis of de kinderopvang naar het kleuteronderwijs: daar ben je als beleidsmaker of expert nauw bij betrokken. Daarom nodigen wij je persoonlijk uit op dit internationale symposium waar je met 80 andere beleidsmakers en stakeholders ideeën kunt uitwisselen. Vier pilootprojecten in Engeland, Slovenië, Italië en België (Aalst) hebben die uitdagingen van transities...

Transities, zoals de overgang van thuis of de kinderopvang naar het kleuteronderwijs: daar ben je als beleidsmaker of expert nauw bij betrokken. Daarom nodigen wij je persoonlijk uit op dit internationale symposium waar je met 80 andere beleidsmakers en stakeholders ideeën kunt uitwisselen. Vier pilootprojecten in Engeland, Slovenië, Italië en België (Aalst) hebben die uitdagingen van transities...

QualFDC is an Erasmus+ KA2 peer learning project that focuses on family care in Ireland, Denmark and Flanders (Belgium). For this purpose, VBJK has a collaboration with Vlaams Welzijnsverbond in Flanders. The aim of the project is mainly on strengthening the competence of family care.There is a strong focus on learning, teaching and training activities (LTTAs) with 4-day study visits:in Flanders,...

Contact Wouter Bulckaert, he is VBJK's Press Officer. You can reach him via: wouter.bulckaert@vbjk.be +32 473 77 52 65 Under construction This press corner is under construction. We will soon upload press items from our archive. And of course new press items will appear. 

Two months without school and preschool. Two months without learning? Not at all, because playing is learning! Parents tell through pictures what their children learn at home by playing. Check the poster and click on the pictures to discover the stories behind them! or visit the website of our partner ISSA

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