Enhancing Early Childhood Education and Care in Palestine Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enhancing Early Childhood Education and Care in Palestine

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 : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The situation in Palestine is becoming more complicated and severe year after year, a Quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) can lay the foundations for later success in life in terms of education, well-being, employability, and social integration, and is especially important for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. High-quality early childhood education and care is therefore an efficient and effective investment in education and training. In order to address these challenges, Palestinian universities, concerned agencies and ministries have agreed to work together and build this proposal upon the indeed aspects to develop the early childcare sector in Palestine following the international and European standards.The project works on accordance with the ECD strategy 2017-2022 and in partnership with MoSD and MOE, and affiliated partner MOHE. The general objective is to Ensure sustainable delivery of Early Childhood services through government’s commitment and strengthened partnership with universities, families and relevant institutions local, regional and international, under the customized EU standards to the Palestinian context, and raise the level of government’s commitment to providing and sustaining comprehensive and inter-sectorial ECEC services. the project outputs will start with CARE road map that reflect the current situation in Palestine regarding the ECEC status. Then develop the ECEC sector addressing 3 level of interventions: first with PHEJs through Building the capacity of the university staff through training, technical support and updating curricula, build the capacity of the ministries staff and the in-service teachers in kindergarten and nurseries through training and a new professional diploma , and finally with local community awareness campaigns and conferences regarding EC.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 961244 Eur

Project Coordinator

AL-QUDS OPEN UNIVERSITY & Country: PS

Project Partners

• AL-UMMAH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO
• ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE
• PANEPISTIMIO KRITIS
• PIXEL – ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
• INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE BRAGANCA
• MINISTRY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT