| DECET-Projects To work towards the joint creation of concrete products that promote diversity issues, the partners decided to establish three projects or workpacks. Each partner participates in at least one of the three workpacks. Each workpack is coordinated by a workpack manager (limited to the period set for the workpack), who through this function is also a member of the steering group. The workpack managers take on budget responsibilities for the workpack and coordinate all actions within the workpack. In the current programme 2003 to 2006, three workpacks are running. WP1 Improving and Disseminating Methods and Approaches: This workpack focuses on improving and disseminating methods of working with practitioners and trainers (documenting the family in the child care centre) and with practitioners and children (artistic activities). WP2 Training for Trainers will prepare and realise a "European Training of Trainers on Equity and Respect for Diversity". The work is based on the training manual that the former WP1 has developed and based on the experiences of the train-the-trainer courses provided by several partners. WP3 Participatory Research on Making Sense of Good Practice: the issue of this workpack is to define good quality of childcare provisions under the focus of equity and respect for diversity, heightening the exchange and development of theories in Europe that focus on or touch diversity issues (the results will be a compendium of international research and projects, a conference with leading researchers and the exchange between researchers and the network partners); DECET workpacks 2000 - 2003 From 2000 to 2003 the three workpacks that had been established to promote outcome-orientated transnational cooperation in the network were: Work pack 1 "Training Approach Diversity and Equity in Early Childhood" developed a training publication with examples in the different European countries on equity and respect for diversity in early childhood education services. The manual describes the framework of the DECET cooperation and appropriate methods to work on equity and respect for diversity with practitioners. The training experiences were tested in different countries before composing a training manual. The training manual will be implemented in the mainstream initial training and in service training in the different countries. Work pack 2 "Best Practice" aimed to produce a video which could be used for training purposes, showing good anti-bias practices in different countries and explaining why practices can vary according to the contexts. The video shows four examples in Ghent/Belgium, Auby/France, Berlin/Germany and Birmingham/England. A journalist leads the spectators from one childcare provision to the other using the language of the country he is visiting. The video / DVD is done in four different versions: in English, in German, in Flemish and in French and in the meantime has been translated in Greek and Spanish. A booklet is accompanying the video giving some more information about the four childcare provisions and their context. The video / DVD can be ordered in each partner country. Work pack 3 "Dissemination" aimed at promoting and valorising the existing materials (books, videos, articles etc.) which were the results of actions or research by the network members. The product resulting from this work pack is a databank supplying information concerning various publications on diversity in theory and practice which is accessible on the website. |