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The European Commission and UNICEF conclude three-year Child Guarantee pilot scheme
BRUSSELS/GENEVA/SOFIA, Bulgaria, 20 April 2023, – The European Commission and UNICEF today, together with the representatives of the Member States, marked the achievements of a three-year pilot programme implemented in seven countries across Europe to tackle child poverty and social exclusion. The pilot programme ...
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UNICEF is successfully testing innovative models of preschool education in cooperation with partners within the EU Child Guarantee pilot-program
Zagreb, January 24 th , 2023, – Quality preschool education helps mitigate the negative effects of poverty on children's education and development, but access to these services is still difficult and inaccessible to many children, especially those who live in, poverty and social exclusion., The EU Child Guarantee,...
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EU Child Guarantee: Play Hubs with Toy Libraries for children and their families
Within the, pilot-program Phase III: Testing the Child Guarantee in Croatia ,, funded by the European Union, and implemented by UNICEF in cooperation with 11 implementing partners, , three Play Hubs with Toy Libraries are operating in Medjimurje County. Play Hubs in Kuršanec ,, Orehovica, and Držimurec-Strelec are...
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“This teaching practice is different from everything students have learned so far!”
As of this summer, second- and third-year students of early and preschool education at the Faculty of Teacher Education, Čakovec branch, are carrying out, part of their teaching practice in the informal setting of Play Hubs, . In addition to gaining experience in a formal environment such as kindergartens, student...
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Learning through Play: A third Play Hub and Toy Library in Držimurec-Strelec
Within the pilot-program Phase III: Testing the Child Guarantee in Croatia , funded by the European Union, and implemented by UNICEF in cooperation with 11 implementing partners in Medjimurje County, a new , Play Hub and Toy Library has been opened, for children and their families in Drzimurec Strelec, Mala Subot...
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Deep Dive into the European Child Guarantee - Croatia
The European Commission has partnered with the UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (UNICEF ECARO) to test how the European Child Guarantee could work in practice and provide recommendations for its successful design and implementation. As part of this engagement, UNICEF ECARO has been working since ...
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Play Hub and Toy Library in Kuršanec has been opened
Čakovec, March 3 2022 – Within the pilot-program, Phase III: Testing the Child Guarantee in Croatia, , funded by the European union, implemented by UNICEF in cooperation with 11 implementing partners in Medjimurje County,, two new Play Hubs and Toy Libraries are being established and opened in March. , With the al...
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Learning social justice with the help of puppets
Prejudices and stereotypes begin to develop between the ages of three and four, the, Persona Doll method was , created to address this topic for young children in an understandable and acceptable way. , This method, uses the, puppet as a mediator between educators and children and presents them with various anti-...
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Adults have the key role in fight against prejudice as children adopt attitudes from their environm
Respect for one's own and other cultures is the basis for building a tolerant society and has an extremely important role in the educational process., If other cultures are excluded from educational curriculum, it may result in social alienation of students belonging to minority groups. That is why it is important...
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Workshops that help children and parents living in difficult circumstances
Zagreb, October 21, 2021 – Two cycles of 15 workshops each, “Growing Up Together Count Us In Plus” aimed to supporting parents were successfully completed in Orehovica and Pribislavec. The workshops are part of the Phase III: “Testing the Child Guarantee” pilot-programme, funded by the European Union and carried o...
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“Students should be given the opportunity to develop inclusive education awareness!"
Phase III: "Testing The Child Guarantee", , funded by the European Union is being implemented in Medjimurje by UNICEF Croatia and its implementing partners, one being also the , Čakovec branch of the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb. I, n preparation for the new academic year, the mentioned impl...
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World Teachers' Day is held annually on 5 October
World Teachers' Day is held annually on 5 October to celebrate all teachers around the globe. It is an opportunity to recall the important role of teachers and other professionals in the education system in the growth and development of every child and the right of every girl and every boy to education, regardless...