With the “Technology Free” project, we aimed to strengthen the international exchange of proven educational approaches through close cooperation between partners from Germany, Turkey, Italy, and Lithuania. The goal was to jointly develop creative, technology-reduced learning methods that can be easily integrated into the daily routines of educational institutions and tested in different cultural contexts. A key focus was on the training and support of educational professionals in all partner countries. Through workshops, joint activities, and professional dialogue, they received new impulses to create creative, nature-oriented, and community-building learning environments. In addition, the project actively involved parents and caregivers in the educational processes. The aim was to encourage and enable them to create technology-free learning and play spaces at home as well, fostering children’s creativity, social skills, language development, and motor abilities.
We work primarily with children aged 36 to 72 months, whom we see as the future bearers of our society. In recent years, we have increasingly observed that even at preschool age, high levels of media and screen use dominate everyday life. This has a negative impact on creativity, social interaction, language development, and motor skills. With the “Technology Free” project, we are responding to this need. Our goal is to provide children with a developmental, technology-reduced learning environment that strengthens creativity, connection to nature, and social interaction. At the same time, we support parents as the most important caregivers and actively involve them in the educational process. Through international cooperation with partners from Turkey, Italy, and Lithuania, we promote the exchange of proven educational approaches, develop creative, non-technological learning methods, and sustainably strengthen the pedagogical competencies of educational professionals. In doing so, we contribute to healthy development in early childhood education.