Early Childhood Development System in Visegrad Region
Starting: October 15
Duration: 6 weeks
Team size: 5 max.
Live sessions: 8 minimum
Time commitment: live 35 hours, individual 25 hours
Timeline: click here
Learning objectives: click here
Fee: €150-800 (see details below)
application deadline: 30 September
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The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
What you’ll be doing
You will learn how to work as part of a highly motivated, remote, interdisciplinary team. Working with others is challenging even if you are in the same space. Understanding what makes a remote team perform will give you the confidence to join any project-based team in the future.
As part of a team of 5, you will learn the basic psychology behind successful collaboration, how to set up your remote workspace, what tools to use and how to communicate and resolve conflicts.
As with every Holis course, you will work on a real challenge (see details below). We strongly believe that no cognitive energy should be wasted while learning but should help those in need. You will learn about methodologies, approaches and tools to work on social justice challenges and you will gain experience on how to use them.
Bonus: the project you will be developing might be selected and funded to be implemented.
What will you work on and why
Collected evidence in numerous case studies confirms that quality early childhood development can set children in adversity on the right track towards a brighter future. When services are provided early, the return on investment is the highest. Nevertheless, it is exactly those children most in need of early childhood development and care, who are absent from these services. This video explains everything much better than we ever could.
Holis Facilitators and Experts
Justyna Turek
Sustainable Design Consultant & Facilitator
A dynamic and versatile professional, recognized for her expertise in sustainable design and innovation. As a design researcher, process facilitator, and ideas initiator, she specializes in creating immersive experiences, systems, and workshops that enable companies, brands, organizations, and events to effectively communicate their sustainable value to users. Her extensive experience spans a wide range of industries, including product, service, and manufacturing companies, as well as collaborations with design and culture studios in Paris, Helsinki, New York, Stockholm and across Poland. Co-founder of Change Pilots and Next Agents.
Michala Lipkova
Product Designer, Assistant Professor at Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Michala is a designer working along boundaries of product and experience design. She leads commissioned research projects at the Institute of Design at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Since 2013 she is a managing director of collaborative platform Flowers for Slovakia, focused on promotion of Slovak design abroad. In 2017 she has co-founded hardware startup Benjamin button.
Noelle Dye
Innovation Accelerator & Leadership Coach
Noelle is an explorer of the human experience. She has worked as a designer, innovator, inventor, and coach, and has built and led cross-functional teams in hardware, software, and service design as a consultant, in-house for start-ups, and in-house with some big brands. Currently, she guides leaders and organizations of people to discover their inner champions to achieve their visions.
Pascal Wicht
Strategic Designer
Pascal is a strategic designer based in Lausanne Switzerland. His work is focused on the orientation of people in their exploration of different futures. Pascal's approach mixes an ethnographic enquiry of people with the foresight practice of horizon scanning. He is also the founder of Whispers & Giants, a strategic discovery agency helping organisations succeed in the early phase of innovation journeys. In parallel, he teaches the discovery process in universities and business schools.
Dorottya Marosváry
Head of the Kindergarten Club at the Real Pearl Foundation's "tanoda" program
Dorottya works as a teacher, mentor and communication specialist for non-governmental organizations working for Roma inclusion and equal opportunities in Hungary. Her main areas of expertise are reading motivation, mother tongue development, she currently works mainly with the 3-4- year-old age group. She strongly believes that the for-profit and non-profit sectors could learn a lot from each other.
Julcsi Péterfi
special education teacher, 'tanoda' teacher at the Real Pearl Foundation
Julcsi has worked in the model village of the Foundation, in Told for 6 years. She joined at the very beginning of the Tanoda program during her university years as a volunteer. She now works with children from the age of 3 to 18, but her focus area is early childhood development, especially preschool programs and motor skill development.
Justyna Turek
Sustainable Design Consultant & Facilitator
A dynamic and versatile professional, recognized for her expertise in sustainable design and innovation. As a design researcher, process facilitator, and ideas initiator, she specializes in creating immersive experiences, systems, and workshops that enable companies, brands, organizations, and events to effectively communicate their sustainable value to users. Her extensive experience spans a wide range of industries, including product, service, and manufacturing companies, as well as collaborations with design and culture studios in Paris, Helsinki, New York, Stockholm and across Poland. Co-founder of Change Pilots and Next Agents.
Melanie Berry
Senior Specialist, Innovator Supports
As Senior Specialist of Innovator Supports at the Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, Melanie oversees the ongoing development of the Center’s innovator support offerings including the IDEAS Impact Framework and ScienceXDesign. Melanie brings extensive experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of programs to support young children and families facing adversity, and she’s passionate about helping innovators in the early childhood field use information and data to achieve better outcomes. She holds a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium.
Michala Lipkova
Product Designer, Assistant Professor at Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Michala is a designer working along boundaries of product and experience design. She leads commissioned research projects at the Institute of Design at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Since 2013 she is a managing director of collaborative platform Flowers for Slovakia, focused on promotion of Slovak design abroad. In 2017 she has co-founded hardware startup Benjamin button.
Noelle Dye
Innovation Accelerator & Leadership Coach
Noelle is an explorer of the human experience. She has worked as a designer, innovator, inventor, and coach, and has built and led cross-functional teams in hardware, software, and service design as a consultant, in-house for start-ups, and in-house with some big brands. Currently, she guides leaders and organizations of people to discover their inner champions to achieve their visions.
Peter Strážik
Headmaster
Peter is the headmaster of a school in Spišský Hrhov, Slovakia. Peter was one of the first headmasters in Slovakia to introduce an inclusive school curriculum. He works as a senior expert for community programmes at Škola dokorán - Wide Open School, n.o. He has participated in many projects in the field of inclusive education and in the care and education of preschool children.
Roland Harwood
Compulsive Connector
Roland Harwood is a compulsive connector of people and ideas. As a successful serial entrepreneur, he is currently Founder and Director of Liminal, a new venture currently in development. Prior to that he was Co-Founder and Managing Director at 100%Open, the multi award-winning open innovation agency that works with the likes of LEGO, Ford, UBS, Oxfam and in 25+ countries around the world to co-innovate with their partners.
Simona Mancusi
Service Systems Design
Latin soul got lost in the Nordics, secretly aspires to become a private detective using her dyslexic overhearing power. Prone to get stuck in questioning rabbit holes and earning headaches out of it. Cares about words. Obsessed with humans and making schemes.
Stanislav Daniel
Activist
Stano Daniel is an expert on social inclusion with primary focus on inclusive education and support in early childhood. As a programme manager at Porticus Vienna he focuses on education in Central and Eastern Europe. His preceding international experience includes networking of civil society organisations working with disadvantaged children at European level, research of human rights in education, migration, health, housing. Along with his job he also is a member of the board of directors of Trnava University and the Roma Education Fund.
Zuzana Sojková
Founder
Zuzka is alumni of the leadership program Teach for Slovakia, she has cooperated with the Slovak Research Institute of Child Psychology and Pathopsychology and she is the founder of Naše školstvo - NGO that works on creating a development network of BBSK elementary schools.
Anna Ulahelova
UX Designer
Anna is a designer in UX, information and graphic design. She likes to observe and research topics connected with society, city and environment. She is passionate about design theory in Central Europe and Slovakia. She likes complex and meaningful projects where she can help to analyse, ideate and use visualisation to understand problems. Currently working as freelancer on projects in Slovak culture, design and environment. She co-works with strategic design and innovation company Stride XL in the Czech Republic.
Dominika Majewska
Industrial Design/ Speculative Design
Dominika is a designer, researcher and social innovator based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She works at the intersection of social design and environmental transitions, focusing on creating balanced connections between human-made and natural systems. User experience researcher passionate about psychology. Explorer, looking for connections between the urban and rural tomorrows.
Ella Weldon
Project Lead and Community Developer
Ella is currently working as a Project Lead and Community Developer for social and environmental consultancy Liminal. Her academic and work background spans psychosocial research, international development, migrant’s rights advocacy, youth mentorship, women’s empowerment and public health, with equity and justice the thread that ties them together. Ella is a DJ and radio host and puts on parties with her community sound-system cooperative.
Gábor Suhajda
UX Design
Gábor is a UX team lead and product designer at Emarsys (part of SAP). He spends most of his time there facilitating a common understanding between teams and improving design processes. He’s the co-founder of MOME ID, one of the most acknowledged product design courses in Hungary where he’s a course leader, lecturer and mentor. With the MOME ID team, he’s been running design camps since 2016 dealing with non-digital co-creation, design thinking, speculative design & service design.
Jeremiasz Rzenno
Designer
I am a product / graphic designer. I was the co-founder of Have a Bite (a media startup) and I have been working with Ergo Design - a design and consultancy agency.
Who we are looking for
We will work with experts and practitioners of early childhood development. We will investigate what are the barriers of a well functioning early childhood development system and will develop potential solutions. Our main geographical focus is the Visegrad Region.
We are looking for participants from diverse backgrounds including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Behavioral Change
- Communication
- Early Childhood Development
- Learning Design
- Local and Regional Governance
- Service Design
- Social Services
- System Change
- Visual Communication
How much does it cost?
This program is a non-profit endeavour. We receive a lot of volunteer work, get support from our sponsors, and grants. Nevertheless, your contribution is essential to make it work. We kindly ask that you pay as much as you can within the following ranges.
Student/Unemployed: €150-200.
(Self)Employed: €200-400.
NGO, Corporate: €400-800.
We have scholarships! Check the FAQ below!
Why Holis?
The Holis approach is different from traditional courses. We pay attention to every aspect of your well-being and learning.
Our courses are designed to deliver a unique and unforgettable educational experience.
FAQ
Why do I need to apply?
Can we apply as a team?
If you are applying as a team you will get 25% discount from your personal participation fee.
What’s the cancellation policy?
If you have to cancel your participation, here is the deal. If you cancel up to 2 weeks prior to the beginning of the event we will refund 90% of the participation fee. If you cancel 2 weeks or less before the beginning of the event, there will be no refund. This is due to the short notice to reassign your place.
I'm not a designer. Is Holis for me?
How and when to pay?
Do you have scholarship?
We expect a participants with a scholarship to become a Holis Ambassador and help us in our mission to raise the awareness around soft skills, interdisciplinary collaboration, peer learning and social innovation.
What’s the student/employed ratio?
What’s included in the price?
- Preperatory online session
- Accommodation (9 nights)
- Daily 3 meals (9 days)
- A carefully selected international interdisciplinary team
- An outstanding team facilitator
- A real problem/task to work on and make an impact
- High quality photos and videos that you can use
- Certificate at the end of the programme
- Follow-up online session
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