Social and emotional skills in early and preschool age children : EU-Self progect : Unlock children's potential

Abstract

This project started with a dream of changing the world we live in, of contributing to children’s development, wellbeing and prosperity, of contributing to a better future! Social and emotional skills are part of the key competences! We are convinced of this, but we also know there is a lot to be done. The original approved duration of this project was two years, and then extended into three. It was quite a journey! We had to face difficult times! Most of the project’s lifetime coincided with the period of the global Covid-19 pandemic. We faced many professional and personal challenges. Collaborators came and went. We had to be innovative and creative, but also rational. We had to use all our cognitive but mainly social and emotional skills. Nevertheless, we did it! We succeeded! We managed to overcome all the challenges and difficulties we had to face and to produce very innovative and qualitative products! All this is due to all of our EU-Self project consortium members! All of you deserve a great thank you! Thank you for all your work, your engagement, your commitment, your ideas during these three years. We hope that the EU-Self platform will continue its journey after the EU-Self project lifetime. We hope it will grow! We managed to establish an innovative and useful tool and three valuable compendiums with country overviews, programs and assessment measures. We would be happy if EU bodies, ECEC providers, practitioners (teachers, educators, psychologists, etc.), stakeholders, policy makers, researchers, parents could benefit from it. Let’s unlock children’s potential!
Nadia Koltcheva, PhD
Manager and General Coordinator