LEARNING AND GROWING TOGETHER

This project proposal addresses the needs of Radomir Municipality to enhance the quality of educational services and improve the access to education of pre-school age children from marginalized groups, as well as to implement preventive measures to reduce the number of children excluded from the educational system. To that purpose, a complex integrated innovative pilot program (the Program) for mentoring and coaching will be implemented in Slantse Kindergarten in order to modernize the pedagogical instruments and attract broad public support for the educational process, incl. the marginalized communities. The a.m. will be achieved through expert and infrastructure capacity building in the kindergarten in the initial project stage when, in accordance with the elaborated Program, the local teachers will be trained and new teaching materials will be purchased. On that basis, Interest Clubs will be established where the knowledge and the skills of the children will be developed through innovative practices – learning through play. Simultaneously, activities with another target group – parents and guardians – will be held. The primary aim of those activities will be to create, through the involvement of the adults in the educational and playing processes and through the conduct of coaching sessions, an environment encouraging the education. In order to mobilize public support and to promote communication and joint activities between children from marginalized and non-marginalized groups, each year an „Open doors week” will take place. Although the project will focus on children from minority ethnic groups, some of the costs will be distributed to children and parents representing non-marginalized groups in order to achieve a broader integration effect. The project will be implemented by the Municipality of Radomir (Beneficiary) and Slantse Kindergarten (Partner) for the total amount of BGN 271 723,20, of which BGN 29 113,20 will be indirect costs.

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