Project Status:
Finalized
Funding Topic:
Education
Country / Project Location:
Germany
Duration:
2025 – 2026
Target Group:
Preschool-aged children (approx. 3 – 6 years)
Direct Beneficiaries:
190
SDGs:
- Quality Education (SDG 4)
The project “Discovering Language Digitally – Language Support Through Equipment in Brandenburg Daycare Centers” is being implemented by the YOU Foundation in collaboration with the AWO integration daycare center “Sonnenblume” in Cottbus, which specifically supports children with disabilities and children who do not speak German at home.
With this first pilot project, the YOU Foundation aims to introduce a simple and scalable program that modernizes early childhood education facilities in an unbureaucratic manner and addresses the specific urgent needs of facilities throughout Germany.
Projects Objectives
- Strengthening language support in daily daycare life
- Integrating nutrition education with language learning
- Using digital media to support language learning processes
- Creating diverse opportunities for children to speak
- Expanding the media and language skills of staff
- Sustainably embedding digitally supported language education in daycare centers
Project Activities:
- Procurement and setup of Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones and a digital microscope
- Staff training in the language-promoting use of digital devices
- Project days and small-group activities on healthy eating
- Sound, touch, and sorting games with food
- Digital documentation of experiments and observations
- Creative media projects (photos, videos, audio recordings, e.g., using “ChatterPix”)
- Discussion sessions to reflect on media contributions
- Preparation of a children’s cookbook and a daycare food court
Project Results:
- Digital language learning opportunities are established in the daycare’s daily routine
- Children are increasingly using digital tools independently
- Diverse opportunities for conversation through creative media and nutrition projects
- Expanded vocabulary and greater participatory engagement in dialogue among children
- Particularly reserved children participate more actively in conversations
- Educators apply language-promoting strategies more consciously
- Preparation of a children’s cookbook as a collaborative project
Special thanks to the EDEKA Minden-Hannover Foundation 🙏 for its support! 🌱
