Partner organisations and funded projects
Working with local partner organisations, we fund approximately 200 projects around the world. Follow these links for details of projects in our three programme areas:
- Strengthening the care environment;
- Successful transitions: the continuum from home to school;
- Social inclusion and respect for diversity;
You can also browse all our projects by their geographical location.
| NEWS FROM THE FIELD |
Democratic Education in the New Europe
The Association for New Education (Arbeitskreis Neue Erziehung) has issued a call for papers for its conference on “Democratic Education in the New Europe – Challenges for Parents and Families”, to be held in Berlin on October 27-28.
26 August 2008
Common indicators in early childhood policy
Ecole Santé Social Sud-Est (ESSSE) announces a seminar in Lyon on October 22-24: further details (in French).
26 August 2008
Enrichment centre featured in Israeli media
"An amazing, enchanting world of excitement, creativity, games, sounds, laughter, sports and many more surprises await Jerusalem’s children at the early childhood enrichment center, a place that our children could only dream about until now" - Mercaz Beth Jacob provides this English translation (pdf) of a feature article run by Israeli newspaper Yated Ne'eman describing the Early Childhood Enrichment Centre built with foundation support.
19 August 2008
Latest newsletter from Hand-in-Hand
829 Jewish and Arab children now attend Hand-in-Hand schools. Read all the latest news from our Israeli partner here.
15 August 2008
Training for Turkish women microentrepreneurs
Former foundation partner KEDV is now helping young children through training Turkish women in microentrepreneurship skills, with the support of Citibank.
4 August 2008
Sign up now for December art conference
Sign up for Picture This: Young children and the arts, a Children in Europe Conference in association with Scottish Arts Council, Learning & Teaching Scotland, and Glasgow Culture & Sport - to be held on December 4-5 in Glasgow, and a follow-up to the current issue of Children in Europe magazine with the same title.
22 July 2008
EUROCHIPS art exhibition wins new converts
EUROCHIPS email with a positive update on the exhibition of art by children's prisoners held in Paris in March, and covered by Libération: "subsequently exhibited in the lobby of the Justice Ministry/Prison Administration Building... All in all, it has been a great success, with a snowball effect: a small paints workshop for children waiting to see their imprisoned parents has been set up in one Paris prison. The director has agreed to transmit the drawings regularly to the parents; and to exhibit the works inside the prison and during the special extended visits for the end of the year holidays and Father’s Day."
22 July 2008
Towards making a difference in diversity
Read the text (pdf) of Jacqueline Hayden's keynote presentation to the Diversity in Early Childhood Education and Training (DECET) Conference in Brussels, entitled Towards making a difference: Promoting social inclusion and respect for diversity. Dr Hayden manages the Bernard van Leer Foundation's Social inclusion and respect for diversity programme.
8 July 2008
Latest on Jewish-Arab education project
Read the latest newsletter from our Israeli partner Hagar: Jewish-Arab Bilingual Education for Equality.
3 July 2008
Views of Tanzanian children
Newly published by Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), Tanzanian Children's Perceptions of Education and their Role in Society (pdf) provides valuable current context for the work of our Tanzanian partners.
30 June 2008
Conference on partnership with parents
Foundation partner Mutant invites you to a mini-conference on early childhood professionals working together in partnership with parents, to be held in Utrecht on September 24th, Further details (pdf).
30 June 2008
Democracy in Israeli kindergartens
The Adam Institute's Building Blocks of Democracy project on introducing democracy to the kindergarten featured recently in a Hebrew-language magazine. An English language translation (pdf) is also available.
24 June 2008
Video of children at Mercaz Beth Jacob
This ten-minute video shows children enjoying the facilities at the newly-opened kindergarten of our partner Marcaz Beth Jacob in Israel.
10 June 2008
Subscribe to Children in Europe magazine
The latest edition of Children in Europe magazine, produced with foundation support and available in eleven languages, explores the issue of young children and the arts. Subscribe now.
9 June 2008
Maasai AIDS awareness website
Foundation partner the Maasai AIDS Awareness Programme, which implements the Orphans and Vulnerable Children Care and Support project in the Kaijado district of Kenya, has a new website giving details of their activities.
2 June 2008
Policy paper from Children in Europe
Foundation partner Children in Europe has produced a policy paper (pdf) entitled Young children and their services: developing a European approach which aims to stimulate a democratic dialogue about the need for a Europe-wide political approach to services for young children.
30 May 2008
Wona Sanana launches new website
Wona Sanana, a partner of the foundation in Mozambique, has launched a new website.
27 May 2008
