Granada (E), March 2013 - NEST is a European project funded by the European Commission within the Lifelong Learning Programme that will establish a network in the field of staff development in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Europe.
The project has just finished its first year, which was dedicated to stakeholder analyses, initial network building, and the setting up of a multilingual NEST portal, where communities of practice of ECEC professionals in Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovenian, Greek, Finnish, and German national working groups are foreseen. The portal also includes a multilingual and expanding pool of repositories where professionals and researchers alike can find data, good practices, policies, and learning resources, etc.
The partnership published a project newsletter (available also in German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish and Greek) to share the results achieved and to invite interested parties to join the NEST community to have the opportunity to reach fellow ECEC professionals working with children under six, trainers and institutions of ECEC staff development, as well as researchers focusing on these areas.
