The project aimed to meet the following objectives: O1) Address common needs in ECEC by reviewing the current EU quality framework for ECEC from a sustainability (GreenComp) and intercultural perspective. (WP2, WP3). O2) Enable transformation and change by: a) supporting the initial and continuous professional development of staff involved in the organization and provision of ECEC; b) promoting the participation of children in ECEC from a sustainable and intercultural perspective, through the application of innovative methods and strategies to include and support families (WP3, WP4). O3) Increasing the quality of the work, activities and practices of ECEC organizations for children aged 0-3 within and outside the SUSIEE partnership, creating cross-sectoral synergies to develop innovative resources that ensure the intercultural and sustainable provision of ECEC (WP3, WP4). O4) Develop the capacity of ECEC organizations to work transnationally and across sectors based on SUSIEE methods, through the implementation of transnational and cross-sectoral capacity-building activities (W2.2, W3.2, W3.3, WP5).
There were several reasons for submitting this project: FOR HAURRESKOLAK AND NATURALMENTE: The project enabled them to improve the work they were doing in early childhood with an intercultural and sustainable perspective. Their activities are designed in line with these perspectives, but there was room for improvement. It was believed that the project would enable them to improve their working approaches. FOR BJIHSC (an organization that was replaced by JEB - Józsefvárosi Egyesített Bölcsődék -): it was hoped that the project would bring a new scope to activities related to the area and to the institution's vision for the future, serving to expand the network, the set of tools and the methodology. It was also believed that the organization itself could help to develop a new and innovative approach at European level. CESIE ETS, PARTNERS HUNGARY, LA XIXA and EHU saw this project as an opportunity to explore how sustainability and interculturality could interact, while identifying the role they could play in ECEC for 0-3 year olds. We understood that the project proposed a unique combination of responsible, ecological and intercultural education from an early age.