Promoting the Internationalisation of Early Childhood Education and Care Services (ECEC)

An innovative training program

The staff of the municipalities of Bologna, San Lazzaro di Savena and Imola, all members of the SERN network, participated in the first edition of an innovative training program funded by the European Union.

The course is designed to enhance the skills of ECEC professionals and open up new international perspectives within educational services. An opportunity for teachers, educators, pedagogists and pedagogists, and school leaders, both for those taking their first steps in the world of international projects and for those who want to deepen the ECEC's internationalization strategies.

The training course, curated by SERN experts, combined classroom lessons with individual or group work, to put into practice the new knowledge acquired.

Achieved results:

• development of ECEC skills with a global perspective: the integration of an international perspective in daily work with girls and boys has been explored;
• design of strategies and activities for more international ECEC contexts: the participants have acquired the necessary tools to make their educational environments more open to the world;
• acquisition of practical tools for international collaboration: the course provided the concrete basis for initiating and managing European partnership projects.

The City of Bologna, as an associate partner of the SERN | Sweden Emilia Romagna Network consortium, is participating in the project INTEC, which aims to develop an innovative in-service training model for the staff of nurseries and kindergartens.