More and more educators are realising that the outdoor environment can be more stimulating and more effective for learning than indoor spaces. The direct outdoor experience is much more motivating, has more impact and is real. Learning outdoors in a balance using technology will modernize teaching, make learning more fun and therefore it will reduce the risk of dropping out of school. The aim is to increase the quality of training through outdoor activities, thus developing skills and key competences that are important to 21st century life. To learn how to solve problems and think critically in the natural environment with a thought for nature and the surrounding social environment. The partners are from Lithuania (coordinator), Estonia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia and Spain. Most of them are experienced with the projects and smaller part of them are new to the program but all are motivated and with a good experience in outdoor learning.The project will have several modules: Early Literacy, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, History and Legends, Culture and Traditions, Music and Arts. In each module there will be interactive outdoor lessons to become familiar with the topic and look for problems that children will try to solve. One partner is responsible for the tasks in each module (tasks and LTTA). During each module, special attention will be paid to personal development activities and team skills. The project will be registered in eTwinning and will work in parallel.According to the preliminary plan of the activities, partners will divide the tasks among themselves so that everyone assumes responsibility according to their skills of craft. As the tasks we will have : 1. Curriculum integration2. Problem solving 3. Development of at least three key competencies 4. The possibility of initiative and creativity of children. Teachers will use: 1. Interactive methods and approaches 2. Work in group and team with the kids, project approach3. ICT 4. Turn on families and society throughout the course of workWork will be fully integrated in the curriculum, as will diversify, modernize and enrich with new ideas to practice. The project will provide good examples of collaboration and outdoor learning that will be accessible to all interested through online publications and an online edition of final products - there will be a book with all materials, dictionary and website. Monitoring will be a part of our work throughout the all the project. Reporting will be on quantitative and qualitative measures. Impact and dissemination will be local- in school , parents, local community , regional - medias, authorities, regional seminars , trainings- national forums, seminars for dissemination publications, and international level - eTwinning, conferences, Erasmus events, publications. At the end of the project, partners will develop ideas and experience in eTwinning project and further training events .

CBP: Capacity Building for Preschools is transnational project, involving participants from 4 countries: Bulgaria, Greece, Portugal and Moldova. Main project goal: capacity building of administrators and teachers of pre-/schools in several topics: EU projects; ECEC Framework; saving and support traditions in pre-primary level of education; social inclusion of children with disabilities and disadvantage background. Project activities include Transnational Peer Learning Workshop, children performances to present and promote own country cultural heritage, educational part with internal and external experts, development of small scale intellectual outputs: e-Collection of materials from capacity building events and brochure ‘Flowers/plants in folk tradition’, dissemination activities.Project qualitative results are increasing the capacity of preschool staff that lead to general improvement of current ECEC process, rise children involvement in saving and promotion of their own cultural heritage, strengthening intercultural understanding, that also lead to social inclusion of ethnic minorities, deeper understanding by parents their role in upbringing, care and education of children, reinforcement of local public rhetoric about necessity of high quality ECEC system appropriated to EU framework and recommendations, close collaboration between participating organisation, improvement of partnership relations.

"The project “ Let’s celebrate together” focuses on necessary as well as current social topics of contemporary life . It was directed towards the laying of the foundations of civil and intercultural education of children aged 3 to 7. We have realized this project with the awareness that our children are a part of the European multicultural community and that we are responsible for them to learn and apply the Europe-tolerated fundamental values, common to all mankind in their behavioral patterns The objectives of the project were as follows: 1.To foster the sense of belonging to the European multicultural community where citizens share common values in the children of pre-school age.2. To educate children in social and civil properties, attitudes and relations through the various art forms in the process of “Experiential Learning”, combined in non-traditional holidays and entertainment, common for all European partners. 3. To enhance education quality at the earliest children’s age. The tasks of the project were directed towards :- application of the method of “Experiential Learning” in all scheduled activities involving the children.This method helped the children for the emotional co- experiencing of each of the holidays we had celebrated in the partnering institutions thus making the project accessible , useful and fun for the target group of children;- to develop attitudes and relations typical of people with civil self-consciousness and responsibility in the children;- improvement of the professional profile of the pedagogic experts;- improvement of the interaction between the kindergarten and the family as well as between the kindergarten and other institutions;- fostering the use of the creative approach in activities with our partners as well as the use of IT technologies, various online tools and virtual platforms. The “Let’s celebrate together” project united the efforts of partners from 6 European coutries in an innovation cooperation. All partner institutions were kindergartens, except the Italian one which was a school including 6 groups of children at a pre-school age. The partners under the project were as follows: 1. Parvi Iuni kindergarten, Bulgaria- the coordinator 2. Siauliu r. Kursenu lopselis-darzelis ""Buratinas"" , Lithuania- a partner 3. Darica Namik Kemal Ilkokulu , Turkey – a partner 4. 1° Circolo Didattico ""Leonardo Da Vinci"" Trapani – a partner 5. JUDG Detska Radost – Macedonia 6. GRADINITA RAZA DE SOARE – Romania The activities for achieving the objectives included celebration of international days and holidays, which are common for the partners : World Day of Tourism, International Day of Music, International Day for Tolerance, International Thank-You Day, International Day of the Random Acts of Kindness, World Water Day, World Book Day, Europe Day, Friendship Day, European Day of Languages, World Animal Day; European Day of Healthy Food and Cooking, World Snow Day, International Mother Tongue Day, World Theatre Day, International Dance Day, International Day of Families, International Children’s Day. The main target groups were children, teachers, parents and representatives of various institutions. The acquisition of skills and knowledge as well as the formation of attitudes and relations in the children was conducted through the process of “Experiential Learning” during holidays, entertainment activities, events i.e. the children were learning through their own emotions and experience which made the project accessible, emotional and fun and gave plenty of results. The project yielded the following results: 1. Children’s acquisition of knowledge about Europe, the countries and institutions of our partners; 2. Mastering and testing of knowledge and attitude towards the various international days celebrated by Europeans together;3. Knowledge about the various cultures, traditions, rituals, folklore, symbols , capitals, etc. was also acquired ;4. Mastering by the children of the fundamental rules, common values and culture in human behavior;5. Enriched pedagogic technologies of the teachers;6. Improved foreign language skills and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) competences of the pedagogical experts;7. Enhanced quality of the educational service in the partnering institutions;8. Improved communication between the educational establishments, the families of the children and other institutions;9. Enhanced administrative capacity, improved skills for partnership management;10. Improved team work in the institutions.11. The participating institutions raised and established their authoritativeness before other institutions as well as before the public. During the project implementation the partners showed very good organization, positive and disciplined attitude and satisfaction by the activity as a whole. To sum it up, we can state that the accomplished project was more than successful."

"This project ""Arts, museums, outdoor activities and learning "" /EDU-CULT/ has the ambition to unite three types of institutions - kindergartens/schools, museums and NGOs with the aim to create a model at regional and European level for outdoor learning in the museum through pandemic time an opportunity to develop new tours and attract visitors, NGOs to support social inclusion through art and intercultural dialogue through the experience and opportunities they offer in their activity. We set myself the following tasks: 1. To encourage dialogue between educational institutions, museums and the community. Attracting volunteers with an interest in history and art in times of crisis is also important. 2. Kindergartens and schools to work for the development of creative thinking, European citizenship of children, and all together to contribute to the cultural awareness of the local and wider community. 3. We will present an innovative approach to participation in intercultural dialogue at regional and European level through cultural heritage and the arts in a difficult time for society. 4. Outdoor learning and in the museum is an opportunity to strengthen the creative activity and potential of all participants in the project - children, parents, teachers, cultural figures, etc., to support the mental health of participants in difficult times of a pandemic.5. This project will address the issue in the context of a kind of solution to a social and pedagogical challenge to use learning options in a critical situation. Cooperation between these three types of organizations provides an opportunity to develop ideas for any activities in the museum that bring added value in the education and upbringing of children - including the expression of gifts, interest in science and professions, learning by doing, opportunity and sharing, small and large team work, etc. 6. The key competencies can be developed in full through the various initiatives for partners /communication in native and foreign languages, social, mathematical and digital competencies, cultural awareness and creativity, social entrepreneurship and others. 7. The project is expected to prepare moderators for the transfer of good experience at regional and international level, as learning in critical situations will be increasingly relevant.The whole groups are children between 5 to 8 years, teachers from children's and primary schools, employees in museums / as cultural institutions /, and members of NGOs with regard to education and culture. The project is constructed modules with subtopics- museums education and arts /every module on of painting, dance and customs, theater, crafts and music/. Cooperation and communication between the project partners will mainly be carried out via the Internet: e-mail, messaging, communicating through videoconferencing, chat project group in Facebook, in e-twinning web diary project, chat sessions, forum , where the development of activities will be published regularly, also in in LTTA and one transnational meeting. The project will be registered in the e-Twinning platform. In the time project will be created two intellectual outputs. The hand book will be the ultimate intellectual product, created with the efforts of all partners, which will be available in e-version and on paper. The second is website with all materials, links with digital lessons and video channel in YouTube. For every module will have LTTA and finally will have one more for moderators for structured course in theme project. All time and all products and results will be disseminate in regional, national and international level."

Early childhood education and pre-school education have a positive influence on children’s development. Young children are ready to learn, but their early experiences are crucial in facilitating their learning. Preschool education can produce substantial gains in children's learning and development. The researches show us that the more time children spend in pre-school, the better their performance in primary school. Recent evidence based on PISA survey shows that in 58 of 65 countries, 15 year old students who had attended at least a year of pre-primary school outperformed students who had not. Behind the success of the first 10 countries of PISA results is in the importance of pre-school education, and creative thinking skills lie behind particularly in the areas of mathematics and science at a young age.The aim of this project is to create a basement about pre-school education in terms of learning outputs of students, common guidance and councelling system, common content of parents' education in Europe. To take the attentions to the need of unity in Europe about pre-school education and to create common e-tools for pre-school education this project was carried out transnationally. The project partners are Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Turkey with their associated partners in local. In the scope of this project an educational online platform was created which provides access to the pre-school teachers, headmasters and inspectors in order to follow the learning outcomes of pre-school students and self check-list for pre-school teachers. E-tool development activities was designed and carried out by coordinator and partners with relevant expertise in the area. Pre-school outputs was uploaded on this platform. Coordinators of each country created director accounts and schools, the directors created teachers' accounts and the classrooms, the teachers created the students and parents' accounts to follow developments of pre-school children.The other problem that we addressed with our project is inspection in pre-school. The inspection is generally done by the headmasters of the kindergarden. Another type of inspection is done by the inspectors of the ministry or by the local or regional authority depending on the country. On many occasions the staff making this inspection is not a pre-school teacher, so they cannot be efficient in the inspecting; that's why we found ideal ways of efficient inspection systems and share the experiences how efficient inspection model should be.When we consider the awareness of pre-school, we can find out that many parents aren’t still aware that pre-school is the most important phase of the educational life of their children. Therefore, we have to inform the public about the importance of pre-school. However, there are not enough campaigns to introduce pre-school to the public. There is not a unity in Europe about the content of parents education about pre-school.Guidance for students and parents are also one of the important issues to be addressed in pre-school. There are not much information about guidance for students and parents, so we developed models about this topic. With this project we compared the applications of guidance in pre-school and introduce good models.The outputs of the projects are e-tool, booklet, seminars, e-twinning space, workshop and reports, 'Raising Awareness Demonstration' of students for the public, exhibition, dissemination meetings. This project is believed to have had a positive and long-lasting effects on the participating organisations, and this project resulted in the development, transfer and implementation of innovative practices at organisational, local, regional, national and European levels. This project produced an innovative approach to addressing target groups, by providing ICT-based methodology for the participating organisations and other organizations all over Europe. The partners of the project have improved their capacity of implementing an EU project and increased the quality in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow-up of EU projects. The organizations increased their capacity and professionalism to work at EU/international level and improved their management competences and internationalisation strategies. The basis was constructed to provide a unity of common pre-school education around Europe. The cooperation capacity increased between European organizations. Seminars for teachers and parents were organized, the awareness of the public about early childhood education and care was increased. The teachers and the inspectors of the regions improved their knowledge.