Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback

European Quality Seal for Early Years Childcare and Education Institutions

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2017-1-AT01-KA201-035070
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for school education Funder Contribution: 262,636 EUR

European Quality Seal for Early Years Childcare and Education Institutions

Description

Over the past two years, the project consortium of the Qualipaed project has been able to successfully implement all planned goals and to establish long-term cooperations and networks through very intensive and good cooperation. In a first step, a list of criteria could be drawn up based on a very extensive validation study, which includes all applicable instruments of the quality label. The label handbook provides a very detailed overview of the certification process and all the necessary detail steps within that process. For the creation of the handbook, the developed seal of quality was piloted in the partner countries in at least 10 different elementary education and support institutions, so that this experience could also be incorporated into the handbook and the policy paper. For the successful piloting of the quality seal, two female and male auditors were trained and prepared for the successful implementation in the partner country within a five-day teaching, learning and training activity from all partner countries. The project partner PädQUIS from Germany acted both during the teaching-learning. and training activity as well as the developments of the manual and the validation study as an expert in the project with a lot of know-how in the field of quality assessment and assurance.The start-up validation study, in which we asked for the quality perspective of parents, professionals and agency representatives in all partner countries, reached at least 3,600 people who were thinking about quality issues and their implementation.During the school week of the auditors, as well as in the course of the pilotaudits, at least 45 kindergartens were able to benefit from the pilotaudits and received detailed feedback on specific quality areas directly or after successful evaluation of the piloting. This allowed the professionals an external view of the structures and their practical work with the children as well as a first opportunity to feed the feedback long-term in the quality assurance.Throughout the course of the project, many possibilities of working on the project and the results as well as the networking with stakeholders were used. As early as November 2018, initial project results were presented to an interested public sector. In addition to reports on the course of the project and articles in specialist journals, insights into the project and its results were also made possible during further education of kindergarten teachers in Austria. The project was repeatedly announced in many newsletters. Above all, the multiplier event also contributed greatly to the dissemination of the project towards the end of the project, where the main results were presented and the starting signal for the use of the quality seal and the developed materials was laid. Together with about 80 participants of the final conference, a panel discussion with representatives of different stakeholders from the partner countries discussed the quality and applicability of the quality label. At this very successful multiplier event, therefore, the very positive project conclusion could be celebrated.All project reports are available on the project partner homepages in all partner languages plus English and are intended to contribute to long-term quality assurance and quality assessment in elementary education and care.

Data Management Plans
Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback

Do the share buttons not appear? Please make sure, any blocking addon is disabled, and then reload the page.

All Research products
arrow_drop_down
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=erasmusplus_::b4f7063de6899251f8569ceb1d26f998&type=result"></script>');
-->
</script>
For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu

No option selected
arrow_drop_down