Third party funded individual grant
Acronym: ELVE
Start date : 01.11.2020
End date : 31.12.2022
Website: https://www.elve.ili.eu/
The project focuses on sustainable education from early childhood because learning begins well before school commences. Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is the foundation of lifelong learning and all young children up to primary education are entitled to it. The project addresses ECEC and primary education teachers and pedagogical coordinators involved in working with children at kindergarten and primary schools. The indirect target audiences are children aged from 3 to 6 and 7 to 11 years, schools and other educational institutions, experts in the field of environmental and values education, organizations and associations of experts, policy makers and decision makers like regional/national authorities and the general public, to raise their the awareness of the importance of environmental and values education starting from early childhood as a key to build a better world to live in.
ELVE has been designed according to a logical framework approach in which the pursued objectives will be achieved by specific activities that may lead to planned results.
Project objectives:
- Implementing a transnational curriculum for ECEC and primary education teachers;
- Designing innovative open educational resources (OER) that develop and promote innovative learning approaches for ECEC and primary school teachers
- Developing a handbook for ECEC and primary school teachers explaining clearly the proposed model of environmental learning based on values education;
- Creating an innovative knowledge hub for informing, uploading and downloading OER materials;
- Promoting the development of the ELVE network to increase the project outreach and raise the awareness of using environmentally and inclusive approaches in kindergarten and primary schools supporting the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)