​LEARNING TO PLAY II project

At the initiative of the Maribor Kindergarten Community, the Municipality of Maribor applied for a new project in 2018 in the European Erasmus + call, under activity KA101, Mobility of school staff. The project is a continuation of a previously successfully implemented related project Learning to Play. Once again, MOM acts as the applicant and holder of the consortium, whose members are 6 Maribor public kindergartens:

  • Vrtec Borisa Pečeta Maribor,
  • Vrtec Ivana Glinska,
  • Vrtec Jadvige Golez,
  • Vrtec Studenci Maribor,
  • Vrtec Jožice Flander Maribor in 
  • Vrtec Pobrežje Maribor.

The Institute for New Age Education works closely with the Municipality of Maribor in the implementation of mobility and operational implementation of the project.​

The purpose of the project

The Municipality of Maribor, as the founder of kindergartens, wants to enable with this project:
- further professional development of employees (by upgrading skills, competencies and personal qualities),
- transfer of good practices from abroad to home kindergartens,
- establishing contacts and cooperating in an international environment,
- development of innovative working methods and better organisation,
- a better response to the changes taking place in Europe,
- better preparedness to work in a multicultural environment​

Opportunities for employees in kindergartens

In addition to their professional competencies, mobility participants will upgrade their personal qualities and soft skills such as: flexibility, tolerance, ability to communicate in a foreign language, openness, facing their own obstacles, limitations or fears, willingness to solve problems and work in a new work environment .​

Content of the project

The project provides employed educators and management staff from six Maribor kindergartens with: practical professional training in kindergartens abroad in the form of assistance to educators in working with children in groups, and monitoring the progress of work in those kindergartens.

Content of practical training

The focus of the practical training is on:
- methods of working with children (innovative approaches),
- activities in the kindergarten (regular, enrichment and additional activities),
- cooperation with parents,
- organisation of work in the kindergarten (groups, premises, organisation of work of educators, nutrition),
- staff training.