F.R.I.E.N.D.E.S.K.: Foster Reception for Inclusive Educational Needs: Development of Educational Support for Kids Erasmus Project

Project Title

F.R.I.E.N.D.E.S.K.: Foster Reception for Inclusive Educational Needs: Development of Educational Support for Kids

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Access for disadvantaged; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

F.R.I.E.N.D.E.S.K. is a project aimed at reducing social exclusion of children 0-6 years old coming from marginalised contexts through the implementation of an innovative ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) model.
The project brings together 8 partner organisations with longstanding experience in the field of social inclusion and children education, with the aim to create and test an integrated system where teachers and experts involved in ECEC systems could work together for providing children households with an inclusive and all-encompassing service.
More specifically, F.R.I.E.N.D.E.S.K. consists of four core phases:
1) a context analysis and benchmarking focused on best practices across the European countries partners on the main reasons of social exclusion affecting households with children aged between 0 and 6 years old;
2) a transnational activity for external teachers and experts who work within the ECEC systems;
3) a period of experimentation of the Friendesk Model consisting on physical spaces hosted by schools and aimed at providing parents with any information, contact, treatment or other services offered;
4) a launching of an Integrated Web Platform useful to deliver training contents to experts ECEC.
Considering the way in which ECEC systems are dependent on the responsible authorities at the highest level, which may be Ministries or Regions or Municipalities, at the end of the experimentation F.R.I.E.N.D.E.S.K. will try to engage public authorities in order to create guidelines improving on how to tackle child poverty and social exclusion through measures such as family support and benefits, quality childcare and early-childhood education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 361715 Eur

Project Coordinator

FISM – Federazione Italiana Scuole Materne della Regione Toscana & Country: IT

Project Partners

• SDRUDZENIE ZNAM I MOGA
• WORLD UNIVERSITY SERVICES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN-WUSMED
• BLUE ROOM INNOVATION SL
• PERIFEREIAKI DIEFTHYNSI PROTOVATHMIAS & DEFTEROVATHMIAS EKPAIDEFSIS THESSALIAS
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE
• KENTRO MERIMNAS OIKOGENEIAS KAI PAIDIOU
• ASOCIATIA EUROPANET