European collaboration to improve the competencies of adults for educate the emotional intelligence of preschool and primary school children Erasmus Project

Project Title

European collaboration to improve the competencies of adults for educate the emotional intelligence of preschool and primary school children

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The project focuses to improve the quality of EU citizens’ education, as well as their living standards and social inclusion.
The theme of the project was chosen to achieve the EU priority “Europe 2020 Strategy” regarding the intelligent increase favourable to inclusion through education and a healthy life. We chose the theme also based on the fact that current science has demonstrated the importance of emotional education in the development of the individual, an idea supported by UNESCO which, in 2002, initiated a world programme to promote the emotional education and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in 140 countries.
The project is addressed to a socially disadvantaged category in the partner countries: adults that care for children with emotional problems, a phenomenon found in the partner countries because of various causes: leaving families to work abroad and letting the children at home in the care of other people (which leads to social-emotional problems ) broken or conflictual families,, use of wrong educational methods in children education etc. This phenomenon has serious consequences not only in children’s behaviour (stress, school dropout, violence, depression, even suicide) but also affect the family and the quality of the life of the adults who care for them, hindering a normal life and their effective integration into society. Starting from here, the project proposes an EU cooperation to improve the skills of the staff regarding the education of adults who care for preschool and primary school children with emotional problems, but also experimenting innovative methods to educate this category of adults . The project responds thus to the needs of the personnel in the partner institutions to improve skills and educational methods, and the learning new methods of non-formal education /training of adults who care for children with emotional problems.The project also meets the needs of the adults in the target group on their competencies development (emotion control ,communicational , pedagogical, social, intercultural , empathy, intercultural, language) and also the needs of increasing quality of life and social inclusion for all these persons in risk of social exclusion .
The participants in the project will be the staff in the partner institutions and the adults who care for/ educate the children with socio-emotional problems. 144 people will participate in mobilities, and the number of those who will be involved directly or indirectly will be over 4000 people.
The target groups are:
– the staff of the institutions of education and training (adult education centers or social work, associations, kindergartens, schools, etc.) that provide education/training/counseiling for adults who educate/ care for preschool and primary school children with emotional problems;
– adults that educate/ care for preschool and primary school children with emotional adjustment problems (parents & tutors of children whose parents have gone abroad, or come from single-parent families, migrant ,broken or conflictual families, or who are cared for by foster parents).
The project has the following objectives:
1- to improve the competencies of staff to provide education /training for adults who care for / educate preschool and primary school children with emotional problems concerning emotional intelligence education and to help adults to face difficulties to manage their own emotional states
2- to increase competencies of staff to provide support for adults who care for preschool & primary school children with emotional problems by using /creating innovative non-formal methods & tools to be used for develop emotional intelligence & improve quality life of adults who care for children with emotional problems
3- enhancing the adults target group competencies (emotion control ,communicational , pedagogical, empathy, intercultural ) for educate/care children with emotional problem with a view to be able to face difficulties & to be able to intervene efficiently to improve their ability to emotional adjustment and social inclusion
4- increasement of life quality and social support for adults who care for children with emotional problem for improve their life and social inclusion

The project activities will include training courses, workshops and seminars, technical visits and the methods used will be: focus goup ,case study ,drama techniques,role playing, peer learning”,simulation.
The short-term impact will be a development of an EU innovative program to educate/train the staff from partner institutions & the adults who care for/ educate children with emotional problem & the improvement of their competences at EU standards. The medium and long-term impact will be to increase the support , the social inclusion & the quality life of adults in local/regional/national/EU communities and share the benefits and results of the project to other categories of people

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 153015 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASOCIATIA EU-RO-IN & Country: RO

Project Partners

• POLARIS S.R.L.
• MOBILIZING EXPERTISE AB
• ANKARA AILE ve SOSYAL HIZMETLER IL MUDURLUGU
• AGIFODENT – Asociacion Granadina para la informacion, formacion y desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologias
• AYUNTAMIENTO DE ALZIRA
• Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi