Researchers from the University of Burgos have developed in Rome, from 6 to 10 June, several events to disseminate and advance the project eEarlyCare-T.
On 6 and 8 June, a knowledge and interaction conference was held between professionals from the University of Burgos and early childhood care professionals in various centres in Rome (Italy).
Dr. María Consuelo Sáiz Manzanares, Principal Investigator of the eEarlyCare-T project, director of GIR DATAHES and UIC Nº 348 and teacher Sandra Rodríguez Arribas, from the Department of Computer Engineering of the University of Burgos, visited the Museo "Museo della Scuola e dell’Educazione “Mauro Laeng", the oldest Italian museum institution - its original site dates back to 1874 - dedicated to the history of pedagogy, school and education. It is housed in the former Magistero building and is part of the Department of Education of the Roma Tre University. They also visited the nursery schools: Scuola dell'infanzia "Giovanni Cagliero" and Scuola dell'infanzia "Ponte Linari", where they dealt with topics related to didactic aspects of working with children with special educational needs and early childhood care.
In addition, on 7 June, the II Transnational Meeting of the eEarlyCare-T project was held at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Roma Tre, which addressed issues related to financial and monitoring aspects of the project, the development of the Learning Activities Conference (C1), held in April 2023 at the Department of Social Medicine and Epidemiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka (Croatia).
Also, new proposals were addressed in the design of the second intellectual product and the development of virtual laboratories was approved, both for the resolution of practical cases related to prematurity disorders, maturational delay, communication and language problems, West Syndrome, cerebral palsy, and autism spectrum disorder in children aged 0-6 years; and to address the learning of the use of intelligent resources in diagnosis and early intervention, as well as for the development of personalised therapeutic intervention programmes.
Other topics discussed were related to the dissemination and diffusion of the project, the realisation of the first multiplier event in Rome on 9 June 2023 and the future lines of development of the project.
This meeting was attended by Professor Vincenzo Piccione from the University of Roma Tre, Drs. Sáiz Manzanares, Rodríguez Arribas, Marticorena Sánchez from UBU, Darko Rovis, Vanja Vasiljev, Tomislav Rukavina, Lovorka Bilajac, Zlatko Trobonjaca, and lvana Godnic from the Department of Social Medicine and Epidemiology of the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka (Croatia), Lorena Aguilar, Gabriela Munares and Jessica Suarez and from Kveloce, Gary Balenciaga from Gestionet and Miriam Manrique from the OTRI of the University of Burgos.
The University of Roma Tre also hosted, on 9 June, the first multiplier event of the eEarlyCare-T, project, where the achievements of the project regarding the first intellectual product were presented. In particular, eight training modules have been developed and are available in open access on the project website in English, Spanish, Croatian and Italian. These materials are already implemented in the project's Virtual Classroom. They can also be consulted in the Digital Repository of the University of Burgos in Spanish and English. To date, 1628 visits and 1328 downloads have been registered. The event was attended by 39 Italian professionals from different fields (nursery schools, primary schools, secondary education, university, Caritas Italy, among others).
About eEarlyCare-T
The project "Specialized and updated training supporting advance technologies for early childhood" (eEarlyCare-T) is made up of researchers from three European universities (University of Burgos, University of Roma Tre (Italy) and the Croatian University of Sveuciliste u Rijeci), with the participation of the Spanish companies Gestionet Multimedia S.L. and Kveloce I+D+i.
This interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and innovative project focuses on updating the training of practising professionals and new professionals in the field of early childhood care (ages 0-6 years). The training activities will apply innovative teaching methodologies based on the use of different technological resources (avatars, gamification, laboratories and virtual reality). In addition, the entire training process will be carried out within a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that will apply different tools that allow the user self-assessment and personalised learning.