Erasmus Plus KA 2 projects

Erasmus+ is the European Union programme for education, training, youth and sport.  Erasmus+ aims to modernise education, training and youth work across Europe. It is open to education, training, youth and sport organisations across all sectors of lifelong learning, including school education, further and higher education, adult education and the youth sector. It offers exciting opportunities for UK participants to study, work, volunteer, teach and train abroad. 
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A Good Start for All


The GSA project focused on fostering cooperation between informal education settings and preschools to support the inclusion of children from socially disadvantaged or culturally different environments. Strengthened cooperation and coordination among stakeholders such as families, pre-schools, and informal educators are paramount to achieve a higher quality ECEC and to identify and support vulnerable cases at an early stage.
In order to help children to enter formal education and sustain, GSA project partners from Czechia, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK, identified the main activities, methods, programs, and strategies that are currently used to support pre-school children and their families at risk (migrant and Roma families).  

Furthermore, partners explored how educational tools could be transferred to other countries and worked on the selection of the methods, which has proved to be successful. We believe that these innovative inclusive methods are relevant to practitioners and could be used to work with families from socioeconomically disadvantaged or culturally different environments in informal and formal education settings across the EU.

Thus, we would like to kindly invite you to learn more about the GSA Project's Inclusive Strategies and Innovative practices here below:

The first intellectual output, The Report on the National Policies of Inclusive ECEC in Partner Countries, focused on the policy approaches and regulations on the inclusive education applied in each partner country. It also elaborated on methods and good practices that are currently being used by teachers and educators in formal as well as informal preschool settings, taking into consideration available data.
The second output, A Description of Inclusive Strategies Applied in Informal Pre-school Settings in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, UK and Poland, introduced methods used in informal pre-school settings of each partner country. Each Description was devoted to an informal pre-school institution that represents a good example of working with children, parents, and their cooperation with formal pre-school institutions. The emphasis was placed on detailed accounts of methods that aim to prepare children from socially disadvantaged and culturally different environments for formal education. 
The final output was a Good Practice Guide to Inclusive ECEC: New Evidence Based Approaches to Inclusive Preschool Education which presented case studies from each partner country and good practices that were implemented while working with the individuals from these case studies. The Guide also includes a summary of good practices coming from the case studies as well from the participating institutions’ long-standing experience.