Guidance - Networking - Dialogue: Strategies for the transition from daycare centre to school

"The project ""Guidance - Networking - Dialogue: Strategies for the transition from day-care to school"" has dealt with current challenges in this crucial developmental step. The partners in the three participating metropolitan regions of Berlin, Vienna and Copenhagen investigated tested and new approaches for networking during this first transition in a child's educational biography.During the project's 16-month duration, the partners (organisations and authorities in the fields of early childhood education, school supervision, language mediation, social pedagogy and youth work) have devoted themselves to the topic on a strategic and conceptual level. The transnational project group and three regional working groups carried out status descriptions and the status-quo of the success factors at the transition from day-care to school.In three transnational project meetings, good practice, success factors and options for action were elaborated in working groups (comparison and discussion of different working approaches) and through practice input (school and day-care centre visits; exchange with relevant actors).Exchange of experience on preconditions for success and obstacles in the way of developing a connected transition phase led to the identification of four topics focused on during the project: the child, cooperation, educational documentation and participation.We have also prepared good practice from Berlin, Vienna and Copenhagen, which can either be integrated into the respective educational system contexts or adapted to existing concepts for early childhood education and the school entry phase."