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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

Eugeen Verhellen passed away on friday October 6th. Eugeen Verhellen was teaching at Ghent University for many years. As a professor he pioneered on children’s rights, long before the Convention on the Rights of the Child. He strongly believed on children as competent actors and fully-fledged members of society. That was one of the main issues in all his lectures and publications, both nationall...

Why? We want to show and tell you so many things. Filled with materials While you explore our themes and areas of work, our projects and our publications, we have one advice: click around as much as possible. It is on the detail pages that you will find reports and manuals. There you can watch films and download articles and presentations. The English part shows our international projects and p...

How do you create ECEC environments that support children’s development in a holistic way, taking into account the diverse needs of children and families, with special attention to the ones at risk of social exclusion. That is the aim of the EDUCAS project Creating child and family friendly learning spaces in ECEC centres. This is an Erasmus+ project (K2). Partners VBJK Center for Innovation i...

  This ISSA Peer Learning Activity (PLA) aimed at involving all the organizations within the ISSA network that are using the Wanda co-reflecting method in their contexts. The PLA involved participants of all the 7 organizations that are using Wanda in 6 countries (Belgium, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Estonia). The specific objectives have been: Getting an overview on what (and...

In the Erasmus+ project Social Inclusion, Education and Urban Policy for Young Children eleven international partners work together to develop social inclusion, intercultural competences and – in an urban perspective – combat discrimination and segregation.   The six participating cities in this project are all facing growth of population and the need for inclusive policy and education. This incl...

Journalist Mark Gielen travels to Ghent (Belgium), Auby (France), Berlin (Germany) and Birmingham (United Kingdom). In each of these cities, he visits a childcare centre. He meets and talks with practitioners who commit themselves daily to diversity and encounter. Mothers and fathers bring testimonies on how much this means to them. Lullaby for Hamza shows all the richness of a diverse and multili...

Neset II is a network of experts working on the social dimension of Education and Training. Neset II prepares studies and reports commissioned by the European Commission, with the aim of sensitising EU policy towards the most important socio-educational themes of today. This has a direct effect on the themes chosen by the EU Commission for the upcoming European calls for international projects.As...

Many children in pre- and primary school attend out-of-school care provision. If we want them to experience this free time as real ‘free’ time, we need to let them make their own choices. Free time, after all, is doing what you want to do. Playing alone or with friends? Really active or rather quiet? Under supervision or not? Buttonman looks into the life in some Brussels initiatives for out-of-sc...

Language is an important link among people. To understand each other on a daily basis, we all use words, sentences, mimicry and gestures. In verbal and non-verbal ways, we engage in conversation and try to understand the other’s story. Practitioners in ECEC know it better than anyone: children communicate in many different languages. Body language, babbling, muttering, one-word-sentences, extended...