EACH - Early Childhood and Sustainable Citizenship Routes in the Digital Era
Over het project
Digital transformation is happening rapidly and reshaping the education landscape. The EACH project will offer crucial methods to nurture and develop transversal key competences for digital skills in preschools, maintaining excellence in pedagogical practices for a flourishing humanity.
Focusing on sustainability and climate crisis issues while using collaborative knowledge-building approaches, the project aims to foster critical thinking, social skills, and metacognitive skills to ensure that digital transformation enhances fairness and equity in the global social world.
The pedagogical materials will include online guidelines for best practices, activities, and a portfolio of potential activity plans, featuring ready-to-use applications for kindergarten, and a self-evaluation strategy to reinforce ongoing learning through practice and experience.
Kindergarten teachers, parents, and other educators will be able to use and apply these free materials to cultivate a caring, collaborative, and conscious attitude from the very early stages of children’s lives, ensuring that digital transformation reinforces intelligent human agency.
All materials will be available in English, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese, and will be fully accessible online by the end of 2026.
Project results
- R-EACH Report: Overview of relevant information and educational interventions at the European and national levels to raise awareness of digital transformation in early childhood. Available in German, English, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Slovene.
- Article about the project in childhood & philosophy
- Self-assessment tool for ECEC practitioners: Test version is available here
Useful links
Partnerorganisaties
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) www.unl.pt
- Cooperativa Sociale CADIAI (Italië) www.cadiai.it
- Universitá di Bologna, UNIBO (Italië) www.unibo.it
- Uniwersytet Gdański (Polen) www.ug.edu.pl
- Inter-kulturo mednarodni kulturno izobraževalni center d.o.o. (Slovenië) www.interkulturo.si
- Studio Gaus GmbH (Duitsland) www.studiogaus.com
- Fundacja Be MONTESSORI (Polen) www.facebook.com/bemontessorigdansk
- FILO' – Il Filo Del Pensiero (Italië) www.filoedu.com
- Externato João XXIII - Educação Viva (Portugal) www.externatojoao23.edu.pt
Following associated partners will provide support:
- Associação de Profissionais de Educação de Infância, APEI (Portugal) www.apei.pt
- CRIF - Italian Research Center on Philosophical Inquiry, committed to the dissemination of P4C (Italië) www.filosofare.org/crif-p4c
- Montessori Europe e.V. (Duitsland) www.montessori-europe.net
Gefinancierd door de Europese Unie. De hier geuite ideeën en meningen komen echter uitsluitend voor rekening van de auteur(s) en geven niet noodzakelijkerwijs die van de Europese Unie of het Europese Uitvoerende Agentschap onderwijs en cultuur (EACEA) weer. Noch de Europese Unie, noch het EACEA kan ervoor aansprakelijk worden gesteld.
