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Polyglot's main aim was to develop a methodology and tools helping educators and parents to use web based Open Educational Resources (OER) for bilingual education in preschool. Polyglot has provided parents and teacher with tools for helping children with the learning of a second language. After the workshops, especially parents are more confident and they know that children can learn a second language even if the parents do not speak that language. The parents know that with the Open Educational resources they can support their children by learning a second language at home too. The approach of combining in-classroom piloting with educators and parents with online learning through e-courses related to parents and educators was innovative.The study and mastering of several foreign languages is a very good stimulus for the mind. New studies show that the mind of the people, who speak more than one language is more agile, and is able to cope with uncertainties faster, better, also with solving conflicts and even is able to counter Alzheimer’s disease.More than 50% of Europeans are either bilingual or live in a multicultural and multilingual environment. Many schools involved in the project have different experiences with multi-lingualism. Many children come from mixed marriages and in the families there are two and more languages are spoken. This project has helped a large number of teachers and teacher trainers to adapt an innovative approach to language education for children of the project’s target group.The project is submitted by a consortium of organizations managing kindergartens in AT, BG, ES or cooperating with them (IT, TR), and by research organization specialized in using ICT methodologies for learning (CY). The development and testing of the project’s products has been made simultaneously in 6 countries, participating in the project – Bulgaria (private kindergarten “Leonardo da Vinci”), Austria (private kindergarten “Kindervilla”), Spain (private kindergarten “Baby Erasmus”) and also by partners from Italy, Turkey and Cyprus, which participate with NGOs, but work with two public kindergarten by their choice. POLYGLOT helped children in these kindergartens to develop linguistic competences through the support of educators and parents and the use of OERs.Language acquisition and language enhancement gets more and more important for an intercultural dialogue in our societies in Europe and for increasing job chances of individuals. As children are especially receptive to learning languages at an early age, linguistic competences and a multilingual education should be implemented in an early stage in Europe’s kindergartens.The project’s target groups and relevant stakeholders involved pre-primary education teachers, parents, and children, as well as any other agency or individual who is involved in early language aquisition or the inclusion of migrant or multilingual children in european societies. The overall impact of the project on the target group members and other stakeholders was very positive, and the feedback received through the implementation phase, the dissemination activities, the multiplier events, and the exploitation seminars was very encouraging, as people showed interest in using the material in the future at school or at home, and also in informing others about the project and its outputs. All project products and e-courses will be accessible for the next 3 years through the project website: www.polyglot.expert
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