13 Diogenous Laertiou Str.
10446
Athens
اليونان
- Youth and education
EADAP's primary objective is the study, promotion and dissemination of educational innovations to develop the potential of all children from preschool age to their first years at school.
Our vision is to substantially and effectively contribute to the development and creative occupation of children, thus promoting their rights and contributing to the recognition and respect of their diversity, while also developing educational innovations and conducting academic research on those matters.
EADAP aims to design and implement training programmes, promote continuous in-service training, develop collaboration among parents, educators and educational bodies and involve them in reforming the educational institutions, advance and connect action research, training and innovations in preschool and school institutions, research and train in the field of intercultural education and create educational networks.
During EADAP's first years of operation (1992-1994), its academic members have researched the field of preschool education, collected scientific data and developed an in-service training methodology, which they called Synergy. Over the next three years (1995-1998), EADAP used this methodology to implement and evaluate pilot in-service training programmes at 12 day care centres.
Since 1966 EADAP has been involved in numerous European projects with partners from al around Europe.
Since 1999, we have been expanding and disseminating the Synergy methodology through implementing programmes at many day care centres in municipalities both in Attica Prefecture (Greece) and elsewhere. Furthermore, we have been involving executives from relevant bodies in the programmes, engaging certified educators-mediators to staff the programmes, publishing material (articles, booklets, etc.), presenting papers at conferences and workshops, conducting research in Greece and participating in research programmes abroad.
Moreover, since 1999 EADAP has been running educational programmes focusing on specific targets -as has been done with the Aesop intercultural education programme-,
specific themes -such as health education, environmental education, evaluation, etc.-, the educational needs not only of Athens but also of the rest of Greece, by providing distance learning courses and the needs of education executives (school counsellors, education officers, headmistresses and day care centres' managers).
Lastly, since 2005, EADAP has worked on seminars covering various topics and of varying durations, based on the Synergy methodology. Those seminars reflect the needs and interests of educators, parents, students, education executives and social partners of the day care centres.
EADAP would like to be an active member of the Greek Network. Our aim is to participate in joint actions and projects and help towards promoting and achieving common objectives.
Joining the ALF Network will first and foremost give EADAP the opportunity to contact civil society actors sharing common interests, established in countries from both parts of the Mediterranean basin. Such a membership will promote and facilitate dialogue and exchange of opinions and practices. Finally, cooperation with peers will lead to furthering EADAP's goals and interests, as well as to enriching our areas of expertise.