The Sinbad project aimed at promoting storytelling and the use of storytelling techniques in pre-school and primary school education in order to enhance the key competences acquisition of children.According to the report Act Now! on literacy “one in five of our 15-year-olds in the EU still has insufficient reading skills and more than 73 million adults in the EU currently have low qualifications, and many of them do not have sufficient literacy levels to cope with the daily requirements of personal, social, and economic life” (Commissioner Vassiliou’s Foreword). Low performances in literacy and other key skills influence the chances of a successful participation in social, cultural and working life. Research has proven impressively that early childhood education is the most important time to initiate a healthy development and prevent effectively development problems. The continuous education and training of staff therefore is a fundamental issue for the quality of early childhood education provision. Creative approaches that can involve all children - independent from their social or ethnic background - are needed. Telling stories offers a powerful methodology to support the development of children. It supports the listening and reading comprehension and is a natural opportunity for children to grow as language users. It besides provides a possibility for children to interact with the cultural context of fairytales, folktales and other stories, it strengthens the children's ability to concentrate and fosters creativity as well as critical thinking by stimulating discussion and debate.The project team involved seven partners from six countries (Germany, UK, Netherlands, Turkey, Lithuania and Greece) with different background: some partners brought in their experiences with storytelling as narrative teaching method and/or with competence based learning in conjunction with the EU key competences. Others contributed with their experiences in early childhood education and/or teacher training.The project followed a bottom-up approach. It aimed at raising awareness for the potential of storytelling in education and supporting educators and teachers in applying storytelling in education. This was reached by developing educational resources and materials for teachers or other people working with primary aged children and implementing it in form of blended learning. All contents were based on a pedagogical framework, developed at the beginning of the project.The main results of the project are:- Pedagogical framework: Competence development through storytelling incl. Sinbad model (http://storytelling-online.eu/en/resources/downloads) - Education pack (http://storytelling-online.eu/en/resources/downloads) - E-learning course containing information about the concept of competence and the EU key competences, appropriate story selection, story structure, finding a suitable place, presenting a story, involving children and supporting the competence acquisition including storytelling competences. The course is free of charge and can be attended in all six project languages. At the end of the course participants can receive a certificate after answering some test questions. A forum allows the exchange with teachers from all over Europe. (http://storytelling-online.eu/en/elearning-course)- Story collection incl. suitable competence development activities, http://storytelling-online.eu/en/resources/find-a-story - Workshop concept and storytelling workshops including framework for assessment and certification- Guidelines for storytelling practice: recommendation for teachers and other people active in pre- and primary school education to organise practice workshops (http://storytelling-online.eu/en/resources/downloads) Sustainable resources and training tools were created helping teachers to better support children with storytelling as low-threshold and attractive method that works independent from the social or cultural background of the children.All results were tested with great success in stakeholder seminars, presentations and workshops. The e-learning course evaluation was open to the public and carried out with an online questionnaire at the end of the course. Almost 97% of the people who evaluated the e-course stated that they will use the contents of this course in their work.The project was able to show (and convince) a very high number of pre- and primary school teachers as well as several stakeholders that telling and working with stories can lead to more involvement and engagement from the children and besides supports the development of all eight EU key competences.