High quality education and care from a very early age creates a good foundation for lifelong learning, especially for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Equity in education is not yet realized for children from poor backgrounds, migrant families or parents with low education. The project's aim is to strengthen the education of reflective practitioners to give toddlers (18-36 months) a fair chance for lifelong learning. The project focuses on the development of provisions for toddlers and investigates different approaches to promote learning in a child centred way, including parental engagement. Research shows that the most enduring cognitive results are achieved when both cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes are pursued simultaneously. We will adapt these principles to toddler's' language learning and wellbeing. As teacher trainers we will cooperate with student teachers, teachers working with toddlers and policy makers. The project shall provide knowledge about enhancing equity in early education (crèche) and implement this in teacher training programmes. The balance between the social and educational aspects will also be a topic to explore. The knowledge and examples of good practice will be developed into a European in-service course (Comenius catalogue) and a course module for student teachers. The course material shall invite practitioners/students to reflect on the learning conditions for disadvantaged children in early childhood settings. Dissemination is embedded within the project: 3 project meetings will be extended with a 1-day seminar for local students, teachers and school authorities. The final conference in Belgium is connected with a meeting of the Comenius Association (self organized European network of 26 teacher training institutes). Presentations will be given on national & European conferences as well as regional conferences for policy makers and school/childcare authorities.