EDUFIRST: Improving Early Childhood Education and Care Services for inclusion, equity, community participation and climate justice

 

Project
EDUFIRST aims to support the collaborative efforts of municipalities to improve their ECEC service system. Through the great experience and knowledge of three large European non-capital cities (Barcelona, ​​Milan and Tampere) and the research and political experience of UVIC, a series of common challenges related to availability (equality of supply), accessibility (barriers to diversity) and quality of ECEC services, all aimed at achieving the EU Childhood Guarantee at local level.

Start date: 31/12/2023

Partnership
Fundacio Universitaria Balmes, Institut Municipal D'educació De Barcelona, ​​Municipality of Milan, Tampereen Kaupunki

objectives 

  • Enable sharing of good practice, peer-to-peer professional learning and networking among key practicing stakeholders
  • Offer an updated, innovative and comprehensive ECEC service model based on the experience and good practices of each context and responding to the key challenges outlined above and a comprehensive evaluation tool for continuous improvement.
  • Develop and implement EU and State Child Guarantee programs at city level.
  • Disseminate both the new model, the training program and the new ECEC services, and create new digital tools to help other European cities to improve the quality of their ECEC services using the ECEC working group of Eurocities and International Association of Educational Cities


Actions

  • Short training programs and peer learning through the experiences of professionals in in-depth visits to each city
  • Co-design a new comprehensive ECEC service model and evaluation tool based on the principles of availability, accessibility, adaptability, acceptability, quality, inclusion, diversity, equity, participation, democracy and climate justice
  • Skills development training program for all staff
  • Co-design of new, innovative and improved ECEC services
  • Communication actions

Expected results

  • Networking, peer-learning and learning mobilization (Visits)
  • A new comprehensive, innovative and high-quality model of ECEC services and self-evaluation tool
  • A blended training course for ECEC operators and key stakeholders
  • A catalog of new (or renewed) ECEC services designed by cities guided and informed by the new model and staff training
  • Creation of a digital toolkit hosted on the Erasmus platform
  • Dissemination actions during the project and a final conference
     

Updated: 15/03/2024