Date: 17-05-2023

Psychological First Aid Training Guards Children’s Safety in Trostianets, Ukraine

Not a single kindergarten was open in the city of Trostianets that is in Sumy oblast in Ukraine in May of 2022. The community had suffered significant destruction of infrastructure, schools, kindergartens, and community residents' homes because of the war in Ukraine.

Date: 09-05-2023

ISSA Members Mobilized for Ukraine

Thanks to the psychological first aid foundational training developed by ISSA, War Child and Amna, ISSA has provided capacity building to ISSA members on the ground in eight countries. 

Date: 31-03-2023

Bulgaria’s five largest cities receive psychosocial support training

In Bulgaria, ISSA Member For Our Children Foundation coordinated the training of 103 early years professionals in psychological first aid.

Date: 20-03-2023

Supporting local governments to build comprehensive early childhood services – experience from Slovenia

Recently, six ISSA Members joined a Primokiz training in Romania. The Step by Step Center for Quality in Education shares the network benefit of this workshop.

Date: 16-03-2023

Four additional ISSA Member organizations receive training on the Primokiz approach

In February 2023, ISSA trainers and teams from countries already implementing the Primokiz approach provided a training to four additional ISSA Member organizations on the Primokiz methodology.

Initial training as a significant forum to build professional competences for smooth and inclusive early years’ transitions



InTrans consortium produced a comparative report bringing together findings from Belgium (Flemish Community), Finland, Italy, and Slovenia on the role of transitions in the curricula for pre-service professionals in training.

Date: 13-01-2023

New tool empowers school leaders to develop inclusive school cultures

A new tool focused on empowering Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for school leadership to create inclusive school cultures was recently released through the HEAD: Empowering School Principals for Inclusive School Culture project.

Date: 14-03-2022

Call open for funds to support children and families displaced from Ukraine

ISSA Member, Refugee Trauma Initiative (RTI) has opened a call for organizations who are responding to meet the needs of recently displaced communities from Ukraine.

Date: 08-05-2018

5 Steps to Quality – A word with ISSA's Program Director Mihaela Ionescu

In the past years, ISSA supported two member driven Peer Learning Activities based on the European Quality Framework. Now ISSA offers a first time training on the subject. What triggered the decision?

Date: 08-05-2018

Liana Ghent - 'European Quality Framework within Arm’s Length'

Leiden – 8 May 2018 – For the first time, ISSA is offering the European Quality Framework as a training. Last year ISSA organized a very successful Peer Learning Activity about the Framework for their member organizations.