About the Susiee Project

"SUSIEE – Sustainability and Interculturality in 0-3 Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)" is an Erasmus+ project focused on sustainability and interculturality. It includes seven partners, both organizations and schools based in three countries: UPV/EHU (coordinator), Haurreskolak, and La Xixa in Spain; PH and JEB in Hungary; and CESIE and Naturalmente in Italy.

Susiee project explores and creates innovative methods to grow a sustainable and intercultural education for Early Childhood. 

Context and needs: 

There are very few resources developed for 0-3 Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in the Erasmus program; most focus on children aged 3 and older. However, the EU Bauhaus Initiative emphasizes the importance of promoting a sustainable and inclusive society from an early age. In 2022, the GreenComp was introduced to define sustainability as a key competence for learners and educators. The SUSIEE project was created to address this gap. 

Needs of the project according to consortium research:

• Development of new methodologies, tools, and activities for professionals in ECEC to work with children and support families to address sustainability from an intercultural perspective 

• Trained Early Childhood Education staff in non-formal and innovative methodologies.

• Provision of tools for families with children aged 0 to 3 to face integration challenges.

• Increase awareness in education professionals on mastering sustainable and intercultural perspectives.

• Revise the current EU quality framework for 0-3 ECEC from an intercultural and sustainability perspective. 

Objectives: 

• Revise the current EU quality framework for 0-3 ECEC from a sustainability (GreenComp) and interculturality perspective.

• Enable intercultural and sustainable change in 0-3 ECEC by: a) providing training and support to ECEC staff; b) fostering access of children and supporting families (particularly those from migrant or ethnic minority background); c) developing curricula

• Increase quality in Early Childhoood Education by creating cross-sector synergies and building transnational capacity of organisations inside and outside the SUSIEE partnership.

Target groups:

Stakeholders involved in ECEC of 0-3 children in contexts of high presence of migrant and  ethnic minority families: 

• Professional staff working with 0-3 children. 
  

• Families with children 0-3

• Health workers and social workers related to ECEC

• Organisations realted to ECEC

Methodology: 

One of the aims of this project is to develop the Susiee method, based on the integration of sustainability and interculturality in early childhood education considering Positive Parenting and Enthnopedriatic as relevant ECEC approaches. To build this new methodology we will bring together disciplines with an intersectional and community focus like Theatre of the Oppressed, Process Oriented Psychology, Digital Theatre, and The Work That Reconnects, in dialog with methodologies focused on inclusion and conflict resolution like Identity Theory and Critical incident methodology.