The 27-month EARLYPOLY project was launched in October, 2024, supported by the European Commission Strategic Partnerships Framework Programme. The aim of the project is to develop innovative, transdisciplinary pedagogical methods that are primarily related to a revolutionary educational tool, called Poly-Universe, targeting the age group 3-10 of learners. We intend to discover the possibilities of introducing and applying the Poly-Universe kit in preschool and lower-primary school education, in the spirit of striving for completeness.
The birth of the Poly-Universe toolkit itself is the result of a fundamentally art-driven concept, which, however, in addition to aesthetic aspects, opened up new perspectives first in the teaching of mathematics and then in further disciplines. Today, we can declare that the Poly-Universe kit has become part of everyday life in many schools. The aim of this project is to facilitate the incorporation of this everyday practice into early-childhood education and the transfer of methodological foundations to teachers and educators in formal and non-formal settings as well.