Website: https://eduskills.plus/each
Digital transformation is reshaping educational spaces at a rapid pace. In early childhood settings, this shift can feel both full of potential and deeply unsettling. While digital tools can support learning, they can also leave educators unsure about the direction and speed of change.
EACH was created to give this uncertainty a constructive path. The project aims to strengthen transversal key competences, including critical thinking, social skills and meta-cognitive skills, alongside digital competences in early childhood education and care services. It does so by implementing participatory educational activities supported by digital technologies, with a strong focus on collaborative knowledge building. Climate change challenges provide the unifying frame for these activities.
This sustainability perspective is not an add-on. The project deliberately links digital transformation with sustainability and the climate crisis, with the goal of ensuring that digital change supports fairness and equity. By reinforcing critical thinking, social interaction and reflection, EACH positions digital tools as part of a responsible and inclusive educational approach.
For educators, the project plans a concrete set of pedagogical resources. These include online guidelines for good practice, activity ideas, and a portfolio for activity planning, with ready to use applications for kindergarten settings. A self evaluative strategy is also foreseen to support continuous learning through practice and experience.
The materials are intended for professionals working in early childhood education, as well as for parents, and are made available free of charge. As the project is still ongoing, final results and impact data are not yet available. What is clearly defined is the process. The work brings together early childhood practitioners and researchers in shared knowledge building, includes two training activities, and foresees a pilot intervention.
All resources will be hosted on the EduSkills+ platform, with an emphasis on accessibility, clear language and free use. Public facing materials are planned in English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Slovene, and are scheduled to be available online by the end of 2026.
Results and outputs
The project’s online space is being developed as more than a repository for static documents. It will include an online self-assessment tool for early childhood education and care institutions, supporting reflection on the use of digital technologies in everyday practice and at organisational level.
In addition, an educational toolkit is being developed to support educators in exploring examples of good practice, contributing their own experiences, and exchanging ideas with others through the platform. The overall package includes guidelines, practical activities, a portfolio for planning and documentation, and a self-evaluative strategy tailored to kindergarten settings.
Our role
Studio GAUS GmbH is responsible for the development and operation of the project’s digital environment. We design, implement and maintain the platform structures through which the materials are published and accessed, and we shape the digital framework that supports the project’s pedagogical approach.
Our work includes developing the website and its content structures, integrating downloadable materials, and accompanying dissemination processes in the online space. We work closely with the partner organisations so that content development, testing and digital implementation remain aligned throughout the project duration.
Project partners
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
- Cooperativa Sociale CADIAI (Italy)
- Università di Bologna, UNIBO (Italy)
- Uniwersytet Gdański (Poland)
- Inter-kulturo d.o.o. (Slovenia)
- Studio GAUS GmbH (Germany)
- Fundacja Be MONTESSORI (Poland)
- FILO' – Il Filo Del Pensiero (Italy)
- Externato João XXIII - Educação Viva (Portugal)
Following associated partners will provide support:
- Associação de Profissionais de Educação de Infância, APEI (Portugal)
- CRIF – Italian Research Center on Philosophical Inquiry (Italy)
- Montessori Europe e.V. (Germany)
To keep collaboration consistent and reduce unnecessary travel, the partnership relies on regular online coordination, including monthly online meetings, and limits face to face meetings where possible.
EACH is being developed openly and step by step. The project is working towards the publication of a complete set of multilingual materials during the course of the project.