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Quality of ECEC – and eventually the benefits for children and families – highly depends on well trained, competent staff. On this, policymakers, researchers and professionals all agree. But what exactly makes a practitioner competent? How can we support that? All in all, working with young children, their families and surrounding communities is quite a demanding and complex job. European researc...

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...

VBJK is an ECEC consultant for Unicef in the Balkan region. We share our expertise in Early Childhood Education and Care with middle income countries, such as Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Montenegro. Quality criteria of the EQF During our work visits, VBJK supports partners to translate and implement the EQF quality criteria into the national context. We also cooperate on several repo...

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

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...

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. 

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...

Childcare of high quality is important, for now, but also for later. Does the quality of ECEC affect school performance in secondary education? This is one of the research questions in this study commissioned by the European Commission. VBJK is an important partner in this European research: we are both key expert and national expert. As a national expert, we conduct a literature review and a cas...

Across Europe, increased professionalization in childcare is high on the agenda. There is a changing view on childcare, from ‘taking care of’ children, as a temporary replacement for the working mother, to childcare as an integral part of a broader educational sector. One of the signs here is the increased attention for co-educating, partnerships with parents. Today, we see changes in professions...