Eurydice

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

For several years, research evidence has demonstrated that investment in high quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) brings long-term benefits to individuals and societies that far outweigh the costs of providing these educational opportunities. Yet In Europe, of the 16 million children under three years old, only 5 million attended ECEC services in 2011. Where were the rest? Why are so many not participating in ECEC?

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. But we find that this education of sympathy is not only systematically ignored in schools, but it is severely repressed. - Rabindranath Tagore on education

10 reasons to know about school holidays in Europe

"Solidarity is the glue that keeps our Union together" Jean-Claude Junker, State of the European Union address to the European Parliament, September 2016

Solidarity is a word often used when speaking of European construction, as it was a central ideal at the heart of the unification of the continent after centuries of war and division. But is it still relevant in today’s European Union? Many of our national leaders tell us that they want “less Europe”, so could we also get by with less solidarity?

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” ― Warsan Shire

Petite Ecole (literally: the small school) is an unexpected place. Hidden in a big street, close to the Brussels' main train station, the school is a little jewel and peaceful oasis in a chaotic and noisy neighbourhood.

“You don't stop playing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop playing" G.B Shaw

“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.” ― Ivan Illich

Les Bleus won the football World Cup this summer, and the French deserve our congratulations. But so too do at least two other countries – Croatia, the beaten finalists, and the Belgian Red Devils, the top-scoring third-placed team that played the most fluent and attractive football throughout the competition. These teams have reached the upper echelons of world football, despite having very small populations and therefore smaller talent pools. How did they do it?

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast… It would be so nice if something made sense for a change." Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

Spotting fake news: New skills or old competences?

"Without music, life would be a mistake" ― Friedrich Nietzsche