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Adrijana Višnjić-JevtićAssistant Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb. During the last ten years, she has been developing and organizing professional development programs for early childhood teachers in Croatia and Europe. Her research interests are early childhood education, cooperation between families and educational institutions and early childhood teachers’ competences and professionalism. She is a member of OMEP, EECERA and TACTYC.

Alicja R. Sadownik, Associate Professor at the Kindergarten Knowledge Center for Systemic Research on Diversity and Sustainable Futures at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her main research is on childhood(s), ECE settings and parental cooperation in the context of migration and socio-cultural diversity. Additional research interest is connected to local and international educational policies as conditions for high quality ECE services, parental and caregivers’ involvement and the good life of children.

Ingrid Engdahl, Associate Professor, is a preschool teacher and psychologist, with a PhD in Child and Youth Sciences from Stockholm University, Sweden. Her main research interests are the holistic development of early childhood education, focusing on toddlers, play, the perspective of the child, education for sustainability and the rights of the child. Since 2019, she is the European president for OMEP, the World Organisation for Early Childhood Education, and the project leader for the World OMEP ESD Project.