Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6.5 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
International Step by Step Association (ISSA)
EU Transparency Register
053125133094-59 First registered on 05 Nov 2018
Goals / Remit
We commit ourselves to the development of children. Across all domains. Ever since ISSA was founded in 1999 we have grown significantly – providing knowledge and tools to improve the quality of Early Childhood Development. In pre-schools, day care centers and primary schools across Europe. From the secretariat in Leiden (The Netherlands), we gather and create prominent studies and insights on child care and share it with our peers, organization members and policy makers, so they can put them to good use.
ISSA came to existence due to the successful start-up and roll out of the Step by Step Program. This multi-disciplinary initiative required the formation of an expert group, a group that would function as overseer of international efforts to consistently grow the quality of Early Childhood Development across Europe. When the Step by Step Program progressed successfully, ISSA was founded in order to preserve and expand the network and knowledge that had done such excellent wor (...)Main EU files targeted
Currently ISSA is involved in the following European projects:
1. Co-baby: The project addreses Early childhood education and care Social assistance and welfare, Initial and continuous training for teachers, trainers and other education staff.
The main aim of the project is to promote the establishment and / or enhancement of parent-friendly spaces within co-working organisations
2. In-Trans. Inclusive Transitions across the Early Years: Promoting inclusive education and training and fostering the education of disadvantaged learners, including through supporting educational staff in addressing diversity and reinforcing diversity among education staff.
3. Diversity+ looks to develop governance, benchmarking, recognition and professionalisation tools for Early childhood education and care (ECEC) professionals in order to understand and improve their current approach to Diversity inclusion.
4. Principles of quality education for teachers (PIQET). The goal of this project is to support recruitment, selection and development of PD educators and improvement of in-service professional development (PD) of educators on EU and non-EU level in a way that promotes social justice, interculturalism and human rights in education.Address
Head Office
Hooglandse Kerkgracht 17R
Leiden 2312 HS
NETHERLANDSEU Office
Hooglandse Kerkgracht 17R
Leiden 2312 HS
NETHERLANDSWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 5 75% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
2 of 7 employees involved are working part time (0,8 FTE)
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
https://www.issa.nl/current_initiatives
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
2,724€
Major funding types in closed year
Member's contribution, Other, EU funding, Grants
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Open Society Foundation 302,175€ Contribution Open Society Institute 204,395€ Contribution Bernard van Leer Foundation 28,234€ Contribution European Commission 51,775€ Contribution Jacobs Foundation 255,471€ Contribution OAK Foundation 92,381€ Contribution King Baudouin Foundation 21,665€ Contribution UNICEF 17,494€ Contribution Bain and Company Middle East, Inc. 12,000€ Contribution Center for Social Studies 36,492€ Contribution REF 25,496€ Contribution Generali - The Human Safety Net 18,375€ Contribution World Bank Georgia 24,800€ Contribution membership 27,157€ Grant European Commission 51,775€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant European Commission 51,775€ Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Working Group on Early Childhood Education and Care#E03811#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=3811 #Member #C#Civil society
Groups (European Parliament)
Children's rights
Other activities
Currently ISSA is involved in the following European projects:
1. EDUCAS – The specific objectives are to:
• Examine existing visions and methods related to organizing ECEC environments, with a focus on educare and on family involvement.
• Increase ECEC staff’s reflective/relational/methodological competences related to the connection space/educare, with attention to involving children and families, particularly the ones at risk of social exclusion.
• Promote ECEC innovation by experimenting new methods concerning how to improve spaces within an educare approach, and how to adapt this experimentation to other local and EU contexts.
• Specify how national and EU policy should address this issue, through policy recommendations elaborated by analyzing strengths and critical points of the experimentations.
The project started in December 2018 and will end in July 2021
4 staff.
2. In-Trans. Inclusive Transitions across the Early Years: Ech child, whether they are refugee children, recently migrated children, children living in poverty, has the right to have a good educational rich experience. Based on the idea that a competent system is needed in order to create change, this project will work on influencing the systemic conditions so that good transitional practices can be disseminated and implemented on a wider scale. The ultimate goal is to ensure that more children and families, especially the most vulnerable ones, can benefit from these transitional warm and inclusive practices.
The project started January 2020 and will end January 2023.
3. Diversity+ looks to develop governance, benchmarking, recognition and professionalisation tools for Early childhood education and care (ECEC) professionals in order to understand and improve their current approach to Diversity inclusion
- The European Pillar of Social Rights declares that 'children have the right to affordable early childhood education and care of good quality'. Participation in high quality ECEC is proven to be especially advantageous for children from disadvantaged and/or marginalised groups.
- Diversity+ project moves from the Commission Recommendation on Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage and disengagement, with its overall mission to reduce disparities in accessing and engaging with ECEC education, following the Barcelona target for specific measures required to create greater access for children in a disadvantaged situation.
- Diversity+ looks to develop a complementary ‘top down’ approach which allows ECEC organisations to fully understand how different Diversity identities fit into their services, and so develop approaches which are fully inclusive to all.
- Throughout these activities the project will look to engage with ECEC leaders, educators and assistants, HR managers, equality and diversity leads etc. from across Europe. This will be complemented by the involvement of Diversity advocacy groups and policy makers.
Meetings
Meetings
None declared