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In general inclusive childcare centres work hard to reach out for the social mix that is common in their neighbourhood. Extra efforts for Romani families are needed. In this project several childcare centres, Playcentres and Centres for Children & Parents will experiment with intergenerational and inclusive activities. TOY for Roma families The official name of this international project is...

In the summer of 2017, the Central European University in Budapest will organise a summer school on ‘The role of Early childhood development in promoting Equity and Social Inclusion’. VBJK is in charge of developing the programme and inviting the international experts as keynote speakers. The course will have about 25 participants who will also be challenged to get involved in discussions. You ca...

CoRe stands for Competences Requirements in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). In other words: what is needed on the competence level to deliver high quality work in services for young children (0-6y). The research consists of an in depth literature review, a survey in 17 European countries and case studies in 7 of those. The Flemish case describes the city of Ghent Pedagogical Guidance C...

Wanda is a Flemish acronym for Value, Analyse and Act. It is a method to support group reflection. Good pedagogical practice requires reflective practitioners who are willing to learn from and with each other, from the children and the families and from their community and the super diverse society. But how do you do this, how do you integrate those many perspectives in your own practice? How can...

After the analyses we made in Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo and Montenegro, VBJK is commissioned to do the same for ECEC in Georgia and Serbia, using the EQF indicators. European Quality Framework Serbia Following different lectures and masterclasses on monitoring and evaluating in ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care), we interview and organise focus groups with stakeholders, policy m...

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...

  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...

Belgium has a split ECEC system. Children aged 0 to 6 can first attend childcare and then pre-primary school from the age of 2,5. VBJK looks into how children start kindergarten. The very first school experience What does it mean for a 2,5 year old to start school? What are the differences with countries that developed a more integrated ECEC-system, where children can attend one service until th...

High quality basic provision demands competent professionals: reflective practitioners, who get opportunities to learn from and with each other, the children, the families and the community. VBJK has been developing methods and tools to help practitioners to reflect on their own practice. How do you really integrate different perspectives in your daily work? What is pedagogical documentation? How...

Basic ECEC services for Early Childhood Education and Care, are at the heart of society: a society that constantly moves and changes, grows and meanders. So it is only natural that services need to change with that. How do we work with the increasing diversity among families? How do we take care of a social and cultural mix? How do we reach the so-called’ hard to reach’ families? How do we make E...