Training of Trainers (ToT) for European Youth in Action Projects

The call for the ToT 2012-13 is launched now, the application form can be found here.

The major aim of this training course is to train trainers who have the competences and the motivation to contribute to the improvement of the quality of projects within the Youth in Action Programme of the European Union.

Specific objectives with respect to the trainees of the training course are to further develop and improve the following competences of participants:

• The competence to plan educational activities in line with the values and purposes of the Youth in Action Programme.  
• The competence to develop and make explicit an educational approach which incorporates the key-concepts, values and consolidated practice of non-formal education.
• The competence to direct one´s own learning (Learning to Learn)
• The competence to deal with ambiguity and change.
• The competence to understand and facilitate learning of others.
• The competence to design, implement and evaluate training programmes.
• The competence to co-operate in international teams of trainers/facilitators.

Participants are expected

• To have been already involved at least three times in a team of trainers designing, implementing and evaluating a training course in the framework of Non-Formal Education.
• To have had international experience in the youth work field with a function of responsibility (not only as a participant) – organising international youth projects, leading a youth exchange, mentoring EVS volunteers, etc.
• To have the potential and need to develop training competences and act after the course as a trainer for European Youth in Action projects and/or for training courses organised by the National Agencies of the Youth in Action programme.
• To show initiative and willingness to self-direct their own learning process.
• To be prepared to reflect on and question their own beliefs and approaches as trainers.
• To be able to run training courses in English.

Further information on ToT and Blended Learning, the mentoring system and guiding principle of the team and the Self Perception Inventory Tool you can find here.

The course is offered once a year and is organised in three seminars and one practical project being implemented by the trainees between seminar 2 and 3. The course is delivered by a European trainers team consisting of Hazel Low, Paul Kloosterman and Peter Hofmann (as trainer and co-ordinator). The participating National Agencies for Youth in Action recruit, delegate, and finance the participants from their countries.

The dates for the three residential seminars of the ToT 2012-2013 are:

• Seminar 1 from 21-30 September 2012 in Germany, Bonn.
• Seminar 2 from 21-30 January 2013 in (most probably) Austria.
• Seminar 3 from 21-29 June 2013 in France.

Participants apply once for the whole duration of the long term training course and are expected to attend all the three residential seminars.

Participants have to be recruited and paid for by one of the National Agencies for the YOUTH IN ACTION programme. The ToT 2012-2013 involves only trainers living in the following countries: The Flemish and the French speaking communities of Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.