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ISSA Launches ECD Institute

Date: 01-07-2025

Stepping Into a New Era for Early Childhood

 

Join a Locally Rooted, Regionally Connected and Globally Relevant Movement

In September, ISSA will launch an early childhood institute — a vibrant destination where early childhood professionals, leaders, policymakers, funders, and advocates from around the world come together to learn, connect, and drive real change. 

 

Co-created with the field, grounded in practice, and powered by a shared commitment to quality, equity, and systemic impact — the Institute will offer: 

🌍 Transformative learning opportunities designed for real lives. 
Self-paced. Live virtual. Hybrid. In-person. A host of different formats to support professionals in their learning journey that leverages the latest pedagogical and technological advancements and delves into under-explored topics. Each learning opportunity is quality-assured, certified, and multilingual, built to strengthen practice, deepen expertise, and deliver immediate, real-world impact for young children and their families. 

🤝 Built by the field, for the field. 
Every learning opportunity is co-created by ISSA members, trusted partners, and leading early childhood experts worldwide, bringing together diverse voices, lived expertise, and 25+ years of ISSA network’s experience to meet the evolving needs of young children, families and of early childhood professionals. By tapping into and learning local expertise, the Institute also enables local capacity building - strengthening systems from within. In doing so, it fosters a more coordinated, efficient, and impactful early childhood ecosystem, one where resources go further, knowledge circulates faster, and sustainable change becomes possible at every level.  

📚 Practical resources that support responsive practice. 
In addition to learning opportunities, the Institute will offer a growing collection of toolkits, frameworks, and applied resources, developed for national and local policy makers, professionals and leaders across early childhood sectors who want actionable tools they can use right away. 

💡 Access for all: open and premium offerings. 
Some experiences will be available as open-access resources, while others will offer premium, paid options — ensuring broad participation while sustaining long-term growth and shared value for the field. 

🌐 Shared spaces to collaborate and grow. 
More than a platform, this is a global movement where peer exchange, masterclasses, convenings, virtual study visits and thought leadership events spark bold conversations and collective capacity to strengthen early childhood systems across contexts, sectors, and borders. 

 

Locally grounded. Regionally connected. Globally relevant. Quality and equity-driven at its core. 

Whether you work in an early childhood service, a ministry, a local authority, a training center, a research institute, an NGO, a foundation, or a global policy forum — this is your place to strengthen and connect policy making with practice and research, elevate local expertise, grow leadership, and shape systems that serve young children and families everywhere. 

And yes — it’s moving fast. So fast it doesn’t even have a name yet. But one thing is clear: this isn’t just a new initiative. It’s a bold network-driven learning movement — built together from the ground up — to empower those who nurture young children and build brighter futures, every day, everywhere. 

The countdown is on. Stay tuned — much more to come in the months ahead. 

🔗 Discover what’s coming: Visit https://issa.nl/Institute and follow the journey by signing up for our newsletter.  

👉 Want to co-create, partner, or invest? Reach out to Éva Izsák at eizsak@issa.nl.