“Children learn better when they are in a safe socio-affective climate, when they relate pleasantly with parents, educators and others around them” John Bennet,UNESCO,2004.The project Happy children’s build self confidence through games and stories is mainly addressed to teachers who carry out learning activities in early education as well as children between the ages of 3 and 7 of our kindergarten.Being the largest kindergarten in Ialomita county, kindergarten of application for the Pedagogical High School in Slobozia, where the future teachers in the field of early education are trained, with a team that combines the experience of the age with the desire of professional development of the young educators, with a good collaboration with community, we want that through this project we develop personal and institutional, at the level of European standards.The project will be implemented as part of a partnership with school organizations from Italy, Spain, Turkey, Slovenia, Portugal, with significant experience in implementing Erasmus + projects.The Dumbrava Minunata kindergarten, although it has no experience in coordinating an Erasmus project, has the experience of successfully carrying out educational projects and partnerships at local/regional/international level.Following the SWOT analysis at the kindergarten level, there was a weak integration of the personal development games and of the motivational stories in the teaching-learning-evaluation activities of the teachers,in the context of the excessive access in the family environment of gadgets by children from a very early age.Early education should provide a social, cultural and physical space, safe and welcoming in which children benefit from a number of possibilities to develop their potential.The project will be based around sharing first-year practices internationally,networking and collaborating to share and provide exciting and creative learning experiences to inspire and motivate children.We aim to use this project to improve children's attitudes towards learning,well-being and creativity development through play and story,by educators.The project aims to exchange experience and best practices in tools and methods, increasing access to quality education and care of preschoolers, by adopting new tools and methods, modernizing existing ones, testing methods from one country to another.The project activities include the organization of virtual and physical meetings, as well as mobility in each country, which will facilitate the exchange of experiences and best practices between the participating organizations regarding the developments in each country regarding early education. as tools, methods and activities. applied or implemented by partners and have achieved positive results.We believe that this project will have a positive impact on all those involved, removing the barriers to learning, coping and working together and then we will use our research and experiences to disseminate the acquired knowledge,during the LLT focused on the next topic: Kindergarten makes the difference;Creativity in teaching and training and how to use games/ stories in developing children's self -confidence;The nature of early learning. Using resources (games/ stories) to inspire practice;Contexts and tools for developing self – esteem of children;Providing all our children the best start for the world of tomorrow;Emotional development in young children.Achieving the goals of this strategic partnership between schools will have an important effect on all groups involved (children, parents, teachers, the local community), because it will change the perception of the responsibility of everyone's involvement to provide a good start in the lives of children and a quality education. The project will disseminate its results by producing and distributing a good practice guide of the project, as well as testimony. In addition, a final dissemination event will be organized in Slobozia, which aims to promote the results of the project to local, regional and national authorities, agencies and organizations. All project materials will be uploaded to partner sites and social media pages, as well as to the Erasmus + project results platform.Increasing access to high quality education and care for preschoolers is a widely recognized priority in the world and also a priority of the Romanian education system, for involving children in culture, raising aspirations, building trust and improving health and well-being. Finally, the exchange of best practices with relevant authorities and organizations could lead to new approaches to respond to the specific educational needs of early education and to the design and implementation of more efficient and targeted policies, thus providing quality educational services.

From Zero We Start / Začnimo z rojstvom! is a school strategic partnership in Erasmus+, KA2. There have been three schools involved in our project. Zavod za gluhe in naglušne Ljubljana as coordinator and Vrtec Ledina from Slovenia and Paddock school from the United Kingdom. All partners have also kindergartens within their organizations, two are them are centers for educating special needs children. According to priorities from Erasmus+ programme, our project was oriented in improving education in kindergartens focusing in researching early language developement. The research field - early language development - is a field which should be researched more - in Europe and also around the world. We researched and developed a lot of small as well as biggger intelectual results. We prepared five intellectual result: guidelines for parents, guidelines for a preschool experts, guidelines for special needs. We also prepared a questionarre for early language development and the recommendation to nacional policies. WE broadly disseminatted our project from the beginnig to its end. A lot of Slovene and foreign participants attended our final conference in May 2017. We prepared two learning, teaching, training activities, one in Slovenia and one in United Kingdom. Our work has been carefully planned and management of the project forseen all activities as the coordinator is really experienced in European projects. All tasks have been shared between three partners. Research work has been mainly done by teachers, as an external expert dr. Ranko Rajović joined our project. Lizbon strategy and strategy Europe 2020 stresses social inclusion of special needs children, in our project we included: deaf and hard of hearing children, autistic children, children with cohlear implants and children with speech and language delays. Project duration was 1. 9. 2014 till 31. 8. 2017. The results have been available to all also in Moodle platform of Ljubljana School for the Deaf and on the platform of Erasmus plus projects.