On Europe Day, last May 9th, President Von Der Leyen inaugurated 2023 as the European Year of Skills. "Education is not just a preparation for life, but education becomes a…
On 21 and 22 June, the beautiful city of Prague welcomed the final Transnational Partners Meeting of the Diversity+ project. Warmly hosted by the Czech project partner Schola Empirica, the…
The Diversity+ team is ready with the final project output – 30 interactive scenarios, addressing teachers and other staff in early childhood education and care (ECEC). The animated scenarios are…
As part of our stakeholder outreach strategy, Diversity+ partners hosted Multiplier Events across Europe to promote resources developed and, among others, engage with ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) experts…
The cooperation within the Diversity+ project consortium has been very fruitful and it already resulted in creating common initiatives among the partner organizations and generated synergies in the field of…
In her State of the Union address on 14 September 2022, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen outlined flagship initiatives which the Commission plans to undertake in…
The article presents recent developments on the Diversity+ project and introduces a European Qualification profile (EQF Level 5) of the Diversity+ Ambassador active in Early childhood education and care environments, which is officially launched in July 2022. The article describes how the "European Qualification Framework of Diversity Ambassador in Early Childhood and Care (ECEC) environments” was developed and outlines the role of the Diversity+ Ambassador within the ECEC setting.
Hosted by the project partner ISSA, the Diversity+ team had a two-day transnational meeting in its Leiden office on Thursday, 12 and Friday 13 May. A total of 19 participants…
The Diversity+ project has reached its mid-term phase. The Erasmus+ initiative looks to develop governance, benchmarking, recognition and professionalisation tools for Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) professionals in order to understand and improve their current approach to diversity inclusion.
Despite UK project partner Aspire-igen Group no longer being able to officially participate in Euroguidance due to Brexit, the network was keen to keep this organisation in its communication channels for mutual benefit, so the network has also continued to be utilised to disseminate Diversity+ as well as sourcing research from non-partner countries. This outreach work has informed Diversity+ project outputs and determined that the eBook of Inspiring Practices and the Diversity+ Charter developed are appropriate and fit for purpose.
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