European Training Calendar Help
International training at a glance
- What is in the European Training Calendar?
- Which are the quality criteria for activities in the European Training Calendar?
- What cannot be published in the European Training Calendar?
- How do I input my international training offer to the European Training Calendar?
- How do I search the European Training Calendar effectively for international training?
Registration and Log in
- I am a new user - how do I get a personal account?
- I am a registered user, but I have forgotten my user name and password - what now?
- I am a registered user - how do I change my details?
- I am a registered user - how do I check/update/link to my training offers?
- I am a registerd user - how do I input my international training to the European Training Calendar?
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International training at a glance
What is in the European Training Calendar?
If you are curious about what Europe has to offer in training activities for youth worker (term understand here as people who work with young people in non-formal learning settings) in the field of youth and non-formal education, here you make a find!
The task of the European Training Calendar it to offer the platform to publish calls for youth worker who want to develop their competences to work with and for young people, to share experiences and sometimes also want to make contacts for common future projects. Besides, the calendar can also publish calls for projects in which youth worker will meet other target groups such as youth policy maker, adult learning organiser, etc in order to learn from each other.
The calendar contains current training offers of different institutions and organisations, such as SALTO, the National Agencies for the YOUTH IN ACTION Programme, non-governmental youth organisations, the European Youth Centres of the Council of Europe, the Partnership Programme on European Youth Worker Training, etc.
If you would like to contribute to the varied range of international training activities to make it even more attractive, this place is just right for you! As the European Training Calendar does not work only as a one-way street from which you gather information about international training published by the SALTO-YOUTH Resource Centres or the National Agencies for the YOUTH IN ACTION Programme. It rather is to be used as a kind of stage, where you can present your own training offers and have the possibility to let interested people share in your conception of international youth work. Promote your training activities!
Which are the quality criteria for activities in the European Training Calendar?
Not to be strict, but to guarantee a certain coherence, SALTO has put forward some minimum requirements on these offers:
- They should be European.
Bilateral, trilateral or multilateral activities which means that they should include more than one country. Training activities at an international level can be suitable as well, if they are intended for the field of youth.
- They should be intended for the field of youth.
They should support the development of quality of (international) youth work, they should allow reflecting on "youth related" issues and/or allow youth worker to find partners for future projects with young people.
- They should be non-formal.
Activities in the European Training Calendar should actively involve interested people on a voluntary basis and should provide them with opportunities to acquire skills and competencies outside formal education and training systems. Even though they are not part of any formal educational curriculum, these activities should be characterised by a carefully planned programme of personal and social education for participants and should apply methods of intercultural learning.
- They should be open.
The recruitment procedure should not be concluded, so that interested people are still invited to apply for participation.
The usual entrance age for such projects is 18 years, otherwise the organiser need to be aware of guiding needs for leagal reasons.
There should only be an 'up to' age limit in case of e.g. a funding programme applies formal criteria to this question, there are specific pedagogic reasons for this, etc. In any case, the reason for 'up to' age limit should be explained in call.
- They should be non-profit.
Participation fee should be reasonable. Reimbursements, e.g. for travel expenses, board and lodging, visa costs, insurance, etc., should be flexible and negotiatable and should be clearly explained in details in the calls to allow potential applicants to decide to apply or not.
- They should be announced good in-time and all applicants should be informed about selection result.
Applicants should have enough time to apply, they need to check availability, mission permission or holidays to apply for participation. Calls for international projects ususally include partners to negotiate the final participants list with what will use additional time to finish the selction.
Calls should give at least 2 weeks time to apply. The application deadline should be at least 2 weeks before the start of the event because selection needs to be done, tickets tobig booked, mission / holidays to be applied, etc. SALTO reserves the right not to publish calls which dont respect these minimum times.
All applicants desire an information about the selection result. Applicants invest time and efforts to fill your application form, you should at least send them a short note even their applicantion was rejected.
- They should be input to the European Training Calendar in English.
The SALTO website is an English language website. Consequently, the calls for applicants should be add in English language to allow all users of the calendar to understand the offers. Both the application form and the documents which can be attached to the calls can be in any other language. Because almost all offers in the calendar have english as working language, please highlight the working language as good as you can in the call in case it is different than English.
What cannot be published in the European Training Calendar?
The following activities are not eligible for the European Training Calendar:
- activities in connection with formal educational curriculums
- activities in connection with vocationally orientated education
- statutory meetings of organisations
- holiday travel
- youth exchanges or other projects having young people as targed group who dont plan to apply their learning in youth work being back home
- academic study trips
- performance tours
- competitions
- activities, which can be classed as tourism
- activities, which aim to make financial profit
- workcamps, which cannot be an end in themselves
- sports activities, which cannot be an end in themselves
- cultural activities, which cannot be an end in themselves
- calls for partners and/or funding - PLEASE add them at www.salto-youth.net/OTLAS
- voluntary work
How do I input my international training offer to the European Training Calendar?
If the minimum requirements on offers in the European Training Calendar apply to your international training, you can input it via log in. The use of this online calendar is free! If you have no personal account yet, you can use the possibility to register online. Please fill in all boxes (or the mandatory ones at least!) of the input mask. It takes up only ten minutes of your time!
- Title - The title of your training offer should be formulated like a newspaper headline: key statement, headword-like
- Group - Helps interested people to see at first glance whether the training activity is organised by the National Agencies for the YOUTH IN ACTION Programme, by the SALTO-YOUTH Resource Centres, of by others
- Activity date - Not always easy to fix, but people should be given a clue
- Activity type - Not always easy to define either, but people should be given a rough idea. If the activity type of your training is not in the list, please select Other and use the open box to give alternatives
- Target group - To select several entries, please press and hold "ctrl" and click on the entries of your choice. Use the open box for additions and/or alternatives
- For participants from - As there might be offers, for which participation is limited to certain countries, the partner countries of your training should be indicated. You can choose from country groups, such as All YOUTH IN ACTION Programme Countries, EU Member States, EFTA Countries/EEA Member States, Pre-accession Countries, All Mediterranean Partner Countries (Euro-Med), All Eastern Europe and Caucasus, All South-east Europe, CoE's Member States, All Others, etc., or from individual countries. To select several entries, please press and hold "ctrl" and click on the entries of your choice
- Group size - Not always easy to fix or not always known, but people should be given an approximate number
- Venue country - To select several entries, please press and hold "ctrl" and click on the entries of your choice
- Details - The Details box should contain all necessary explanations, such as aims and objectives, structure of the training, working methods, expectations placed in the participants, etc., as well as additional and/or general information about the organiser, the trainers team, etc. Further information can be attached as a download
- Costs - As your international training should be non-profit, the participation fee should be reasonable. Information about reimbursements, e.g. for travel expenses, board and lodging, visa costs, insurance, etc., should be included here as well
- Working language - Here should be included information about translation as well
- Organiser - All organiser boxes are preset with your registration data, but you can change this data at any time. If you would like to input activities of other persons or organisations involved in the field of international training, please fill in the boxes below with information about the new organiser
- Application to - All Application to boxes are preset with your registration data as well. But you can change this data at any time, in case the application should be sent to a different contact person than the one given in the boxes
- Deadline for application - To save yourself, possible applicants, and all others involved a lot of work, people should be given a date for the final submission of their applications
- Summary - The most important of your training offer should be in the beginning. The summary contains your complete statement. Please note, that there is a limitation to 250 characters
- Venue place - This could be either the actual house or the town, where your international training takes place
- Organizer's profile/framework of activity - Offers the possibility to give additional information about the organiser and the activity, so interested people can better judge the quality of both
- Date of selection - Not always easy to fix or not always known, but it might be interesting for some people to know a long way in advance, if they can participate in a training or not
- Add downloads - Mostly these are a complete description of your training offer and/or an application form. The content of the document you would like to attach should be described. Then search for the file saved on your computer and add it as a download. Please make sure, that you only put doc, rtf and/or pdf files at disposal
Then save your entry by clicking on the "save"-button at the bottom of the input mask. You always have the possibility of cutting this process short instead by using the "cancel"-button.
Please note: You are informed immediately, that your entry has been saved. After editorially checking your training offer, you either are requested to adjust details of your call or are informed by automatic reply, that it has been activated and gone online.
If problems should crop up, please do not hesitate to contact .
How do I search the European Training Calendar effectively for international training?
If you are interested in participating in an international training and would like to gain an overview of what is offered at the moment, you have the possibility to search the European Training Calendar. You can search the database of current offers by Subject, Group, Activity date and/or Activity type.
- If you search by Subject, you can give individual as well as several keywords, the latter connected by ",". Possible keywords could be Action 1.1 – Youth Exchanges, Action 2 – European Voluntary Service, Action 1.2 – Youth Initiatives, Action 4.3 – Training and Networking, Inclusion, Cultural Diversity, Euro-Med, South-East Europe, Eastern Europe and Caucasus, European Youth Policy, Contact Making and Networking, Human Rights, Gender, Quality, Environment, Drug Awareness, European Citizenship, etc. The Subject search results are ranked according to the relevance of your keywords.
- If you search by Group, you can filter the European Training Calendar for activities organised by the National Agencies for the YOUTH IN ACTION Programme, by the SALTO-YOUTH Resource Centres, or by others.
- If you search by Activity date, you can limit the search to a particular period.
- If you search by Activity type, the search engine automatically searches all pre-defined categories as long as you do not mark individual ones. To select several entries, please press and hold "ctrl" and click on the entries of your choice.
If your search results should be too many, please add search criteria. If your search shows no result instead, please give less search criteria. If you search the database without having changed anything, your search result will be an overview of all the different training offers in the European Training Calendar.
Please note that to save you some time, SALTO has also implemented a service through which you will be notified automatically as soon as a new training activity has been added to the European Training Calendar. Click here and register for notification!
Registration and Log in
Please note: Your registered user name and password do not only give access to devices in connection with the European Training Calendar, but to all the areas of the SALTO web site. Log in at MySALTO, take a good look around, and seize the possibilities!
I am a new user - how do I get a personal account?
If you are a new user, you have the possibility to register online and get your personal account. At MySALTO you are asked for filling in the form on the right. Please complete at least all the mandatory fields and use the registered user name and password as your future log in.
I am a registered user, but I have forgotten my user name and password - what now?
Do not worry too much, if you should have forgotten your password and/or user name! SALTO does not have access to your encrypted password, but set up a password retrieval system at MySALTO. You simply have to enter the e-mail address, with which you have registered, in the lower form on the left, and your user name as well as a new password will be sent to you automatically.
I am a registered user - how do I change my details?
If you would like to change your password, please click on Change Password in the Change your details section of the menu, after you have logged in at MySALTO by entering your user name and password. For security reasons we advise you not to use an easy to guess password. But as SALTO does not have access to your encrypted password, please choose an easy for you to remember one and/or keep it safe.
In the Change your details section you can not only change your password, but also update your address and/or contact details by clicking on Contact details.
I am a registered user - how do I check/update/link to my training offers?
After you have logged in MySALTO by entering your user name and password, SALTO put several other devices at your disposal:
Apart from having an overview of how many training activities you have already entered and how many of them have not been activated yet, you have the possibility to view your entries in the European Training Calendar as well as change them by choosing View/Edit your Training Activities from the menu.
- If you select View, you can see how your training looks like in the European Training Calendar. At the bottom of the page of your training offer in the European Training Calendar you find the direct link to your training activity. Please do not hesitate to use it for promoting your international training!
- If you would like to further work on your entry, please click on the "edit"-button first. All boxes of the input mask still contain the originally input data of this particular training. Please make the updating you want, and do not forget to save it. You always have the possibility of cutting this process short instead by using the "cancel"-button. You can even delete your training offer, which does not mean, that it will completely disappear from the European Training Calendar, but that it just does not turn up in the Training Calendar Search Results anymore.
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