The aim of this project was to promote early technical education through the development of an allembracing pedagogical/didactical concept by means of interdisciplinary and international cooperation in the fi eld of research, education and economy. Five partners from pedagogical institutes, universities and industry developed teaching materials that can be used in practice when explaining technical phenomena to children aged 3-12. The target groups were educators and primary school teachers who benefi ted from further training at universities and vocational training institutes. The diff erent realities in the countries participating in the project (Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal), diff erent ages of school enrolment and diff erent pedagogical concepts of early technical education were taken into account. The project partners compared and analysed the diff erent research results in their countries and developed teaching materials, experiments and games which can be used by many countries and within diff erent educational systems. They also developed an educational-didactical concept for the training of teachers and educators. The main results of the project are an electronic manual with teaching materials on experiments and games and the above mentioned educational-didactical concept for teacher training as well as a handbook which informs on the current situation concerning research on early technical education. The project’s website which off ers all these products also includes a chat room for pupils, students, instructors, lecturers and other interested people.