<< Objectives >>This project aims to widen children’s and teachers’ horizons to general healthy being. The main goal of this project is to enable children to have the best chance of starting and then leading a healthy lifestyle in such areas as :eating habits, sport and mentality. Working on such topics with institutions from different countries will make teachers more aware of different educational systems and their perspectives of dealing with problems of present world.<< Implementation >>In various activities we will encourage children to recognize and consume healthy products to create perfect kids’ diet emphasizing the role of nutritious breakfasts. We will teach children about the aspect of being active (in a sporting way) as for their present days as their future wellness. We will offer them numerous sporting activities as common running, common excercising, swimming etc.The third area of this project is connected with being strong in a psychological meaning.<< Results >>For the children*Opportunities to meet friends from foreign countries via Skype*To become conscious of other cultures’ existence and the specifities of their own*Improving healthy living habits*Learning new games and plays used by children in other contries*Gaining self confidence*Learning about tolerance*Learninig about emotions and feelingsFor the educational community :*Opening to Europe*Improving language skills in communicating areas*Discovering different educational systems

<< Objectives >>By implementing this project we want to develop a responsible behavior of preschoolers in partner kindergartens towards an active lifestyle, by participating in at least one outdoor activity per week; to increase by 30% the outdoor activities in the partner kindergartens in the next 12 months of the project; reducing the discriminatory attitude of preschoolers from vulnerable backgrounds and we also want teachers in partner kindergartens to develop skills in carrying out outdoor activities.<< Implementation >>The project involves outdoor activities. These activities will take place both in the three mobilities and in the period between the mobilities. The activities will be both outdoor learning activities and movement and recreational activities related to the topics studied and the interest of the children. Activities envisaged by the project: Work with children outdoors, outdoor lessons, sports holidays and competitions in the yard of the participating kindergartens or or in other suitable places.<< Results >>Online publication with lesson plans related to project for pupils. The publication will contain 12 lesson scenarios and will be downloaded by about 50 people. A magazine of the project that will include articles, images, examples of good practices regarding the project activities, a Fcebook page, Etwinning.Increase in the number of outdoor activities carried out with preschoolers in all partner kindergartens, an increase in the responsibility of teachers in organizing this type of activity .

<< Objectives >>The main goal of the project: capacity building of preschool staff (administrative and teachers) in partner organizations.Objectives:1. improving the digital competence of preschool teachers through joint training and development of digital educational products.2. preservation and support of Bulgarian traditions, customs and folklore, as an important tool in preschool education.<< Implementation >>1. creation of web-based online educational game about Bulgarian traditional clothes2. informal education and exchange of good practices during transnational meetings3. work with children and their parents using developed educational products4. dissemination of information<< Results >>Increased capacity of min.20 teachers at preschool stage of educationInvolvement of min. 180 children in educational activities related to saving and support of Bulgarian cultureDeveloped online educational gameDeveloped 8 digital education products

"Even young, children not only have a natural curiosity for STEAM, but they are also good at it! Preschool children are curious and Science encourage them on experimenting, problem solving and exploring. They are familiar with computers and Technology which are part of their life. Preschool children have so many questions and so many creative solutions, which is the main base of Engineering. Art develop children's creativity and allows children to illustrate concept they are learning. Art is a part of every childhood and helper in learning. Mathematics deals with numbers, but also with shapes and organizational skills like graphing and sorting. Children's play is intertwined with math.Partners of this project introduced each other before and had occasions to participate in e Twinning projects together, or some of us had occasion to speak with each other face to face on e Twinning conferences. All of us are preschool teachers and we concluded that STEAM should be much more included in preschool education.Children like fairy tales. They are a part of everyday learning. Fairy tales are interesting and many mysterious things happens in fairy tales. Many questions stay opened after reading fairy tales. We concluded that they can be an excellent base for STEAM activities in kindergartens. Our intention is to implement STEAM activities in our preschool institutions, to share knowledge with colleagues and enable children and preschool teachers to develop their 21st century skills.""Connection of fairy tales and STEM"" is our existed project on e Twinning platform. Until planning Erasmus project we decided to add Art, so the name of our K 229 is "" Connection of fairy tales and STEAM"". Partners are : 18th Kindergarten of Rhodes ( Greece), ""Detelina"" ( Vidin - Bulgaria ), Vrtec Dobrna ( Slovenia) and ""Nasa radost"" ( Subotica - Serbia). On our learning events participants will be preschool teachers and associates, parents,members of local Ministry of education, colleagues from other schools from our region. We will disseminate results of our project in various media, on web sites of our preschool institutions, on local and regional conferences, on actives of preschool teachers, on annual meetings of principals of preschool institutions of region. This is the way we will share our knowledge to others, who are not participants of e Twinning project. Our intention is to implement STEAM activities in our preschool institutions, to share knowledge with colleagues and enable children, preschool teachers and other participants to develop their 21st century skills:(1) Life-long learning skills(2) Interactively using different tools and resources (intellectual, cultural, linguistic, material, technical, physical, virtual )(3) Interacting with others( capacity to collaborate to face complexity, analyze demands, solve problems )(4) Interacting with the world ( multiculturalism, multi-religious, multilingual perspectives)(5) Multi-literalness(6) Transdisciplinarity: capacity to enable sophisticated solutions that integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines STEAM is relatively new for all of us but we will learn from each other and exchange good practices in order to include STEAM in our preschool institutions and kindergartens. There will also be an exchange of cultural, traditional and linguistic characteristic of countries using traditional fairy tales as the main source for introducing of differences and similarities. On our face to face LTT we will popularise STEAM method , tradition and culture of partner countries to wider audience.All partners of the project will organize public invitation for participation on LTT-s in partner countries for all preschool teachers, management and associates in their preschool institutions. Potential participants will write motivational letters in which they will write about their interests for improving of their practice, professional development plan, level of English knowledge. Members of Erasmus team and principal will choose participants who will travel according to motivational letters.Number of participants who will travel on LTT-s : Buglaria - 3, Serbia - 5, Greece - 2, Slovenia - 4 . On LTT-s we expect the next number of participants : Bulgaria - 80 , Serbia -100, Slovenia -30, Greece - 80 .Project coordinator ( Preschool institution "" Nasa radost"" from Subotica) will provide mutual communication, regular and careful implementation of planned project activities, recording and monitoring financial plan, taking care of the rational use of material resources, informing partners about activities, possible changes, producing reports, resolving mutual dispute and finding compromises.The main product of the project will be e- book ( guide for preschool teachers) "" Fairy tales and STEAM activities"". The access to this book will be available on all web sites of our preschool institutions and kindergartens, on e Twinning platform, on teacher's nets."

"Context / Project Origin:Ethical education should start with pre-school children, but a quick survey of kindergarten curricula has shown that ethics is not a common topic discussed at kindergarten. At the instigation of innovation in pre-school education, we asked for an international grant project, which was created in cooperation between the teachers of Bulgaria, Italy, Turkey, Czech Republic and Romania. The topic was negotiated by the resolution of all partners in the preparatory process and the tasks of the project were evenly distributed among the partners.Project objectives:This project was developed by members of partner countries in order to introduce moral values and ethics into pre-school education, to enhance the quality of educational services in preschools and make them accessible to the wider environment.Specific objectives:- Comparing of different education systems- Transfer of good practice- Developing new ways and methods of integrating ethical education into pre-school education- Create a better school curriculum- Teachers´ language development- ICT support- Developing intercultural and professional abilities- Set up intercultural dialogue and tolerance among people- Develop social and educational skills in the earliest age- Analyse several pre-school curricula- Create research on moral values in pre-school children- Create research among teachers and parents on ways how to make children aware of the basic principles of ethics such as honesty, honesty, empathy, truthfulness, responsibility, gratitude, patience, etc.- Perform a comparative analysis of pre-school education programs- Create a guideline for activities that have a potential to develop ethical themes in children with examples of good practice- Create a book of activities for teachers and parents on the development of ethical values among preschool children- Schedule and perform social and emotional development activities as part of the kindergarten´s practical curriculum.- Perform a theoretical study of ethical issues that should be presented to pre-school childrenNumber and profile of partner organizations;Turkish organisation - Primary school and kindergarten - IMECE ILKOKULU - IstanbulBulgarian organisation - Kindergarten - Detska gradina Arabella - VidinItalian organisation - Primary school and kindergarten - Istituto Comprensivo ""F.Pappalardo"" - VittoriaCzech organisation - Primary school and kindergarten - ZŠ gen. H. Píky a MŠ Štítina přisp. org. - ŠtítinaDescription of activities:The main activities included work on the specific activities listed in the application form (8 study files) and output publication of the project.Among the secondary activities, but not least, were works and preparations for diverse ethical celebrations and special days, workshops, information seminars, disseminations, project documentation, international training activities, work on innovation in the organization and school documents, or work on the development of ethical activities with pre-school children.Project results and impact;Our project has been presented to the professional public and lay. We have published a number of articles in local newspapers, created websites and provided interviews in international newspapers and televisions. We ensured that most kindergartens in the area received a free Ethical Methodology and in the case of questions, they could contact us. We have created professional seminars for preschool teachers. Thanks to the training sessions, a number of teachers received a different insight into the perception of foreign cultures, their habits and expanded their horizons in terms of pedagogical practice, when they had the opportunity to compare other educational methods, procedures, organization and education management directly on the ground. Children have shown a greater rate of empathy and friendship with other children and adults, regardless of their differences. The pathological behaviour of children has been reduced in terms of aggression and gross speech.Long-term benefit:It consisted primarily in the fact that we managed to address and influence a number of parents and teachers in terms of educating children in ethical and moral values and principles. Improve the awareness of all those involved in the project on the diversity of cultures and develop closer friendship at intercultural level in the vicinity of partner organizations."