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Establishing of STE(A)M classroom concept in pre-school education

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-HR01-KA201-077710
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for school education Funder Contribution: 211,152 EUR

Establishing of STE(A)M classroom concept in pre-school education

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"Rapid development of science and technology addresses the main educational systems' challenge - The progress and prosperity of country needs to rely on innovative talents of science and technology. Kids are important talents for future progress and development of society, it’s necessary to update early childhood curricula in order to keep up with this international trend and address the growing need for STEAM Classroom programs in early childhood education. EU is faced with a challenge and a successfully implemented STE(A)M-focused classroom as an education approach, very soon can been easily recognised as a key force in the progress toward high quality preschool education for all kids.Main project aim is to promote the synergy among the experience of different socio-economical organisations and Kindergartens, with aim to include best expertise in everyday learning process. Concept of STEAM classroom is consisted of two main parts : - Appropriate working space (kindergartens will ensure a working space /classroom/) where specially designed equipment and tools appropriate for kindergartens kids age will be installed- Educational part (a ""learning by doing"" based methodology appropriate for kindergartens' kids age will be developed by experts and adopted with kindergarten teachers in the frame of the training events). Main project objectives are: to improve quality and attractiveness of early childhood education process in regions of four municipalities from Croatia, North Macedonia, Turkey and Bulgaria; enhance pre-schools teachers’ competences and skills by increasing of their theoretical background and introducing learning by doing method for STEAM related topics ; establish strategic partnership among different socio-economic types of organisations (public body; educational institutions; National, Regional and Local NGOs) for increasing of quality level of education process.Specific objectives of the planned activities in the frame of the project are to: develop own and innovative STEAM classroom - based educational approach with large transfer-ability potential; design and implement a special (appropriate for kids age) equipment and tools for practical work with kids in the STEAM field that will cover four main topics: Basic Science; Renewable Energies; Energy efficiency & Ecology; and Art; improve kids' skills through the alternative forms of teaching especially encouraging experiential learning and team work /in the frame of long-term teaching assignment/; establish transnational kindergartens' teachers network by using of eTwinning networking platform and to create of a long-term strategic partnership for transnational cooperation in the field of education.The project have two main target groups:• Teachers from kindergartens from Town Ludbreg-Croatia, Town Kochani-North Macedonia, Town Kushadasi-Turkey and Town Velingrad-Bulgaria.• Children who attend educational programs in the above mentioned kindergartens (with note that final beneficiaries of the project activities will be also all next generations of children that will attend the kindergartens' programs in the future).The long term expected results from the project realisation are:- New innovative educational approach for implementation of STE(A)M related topics in kindergartens that can be used in education of the current and future generations of kids that are attending their educational program;- Implementation of STE(A)M classroom as educational environment as well as attractive and efficient learning methodology in the pre-school teaching process;- Established teacher's network by using of eTwinning module as the main pre-request for further partnership and cooperation in increasing of teacher's skills and competences by exchanging of good practices;- Created strategic action plan for transnational cooperation among different socio-economic organisations from regions of Kochani, Velingrad, Kushadasy and Ludbreg, in the field of pre-education with aim to stimulate its development by using of best practices and innovative education methods;- Increased attractiveness of the education process for kids in kindergartens with implementation of learning by doing educational methods;- Increased awareness on regional, national and international level about the importance of STE(A)M classroom and benefits that this education method is offering for more attractive and efficient education process in pre-schools (through dissemination material, project multiplier events, ect.)- Consequently increasing the interest of larger number of the kids to choose a technology oriented career/educational path which will ensure the European labour market with increased number of engineers and technologists and with this to contribute to the competitiveness of the Union’s economy."

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