Training of Trainers for European YOUTH in ACTION Projects 2013/2014

This Training of Trainers lasts a year and consists of • three residential seminars • an international training project you design and run with some other participants • ongoing e-learning • ongoing mentoring with one of the course trainers as your mentor • learning commitments The dates for the three residential seminars are: 1st seminar 6-15 October 2013 in Sweden 2nd seminar 24 January - 2 February 2014 in Spain 3rd seminar 21-29 June 2014 in Italy This course requires a considerable time investment from the participants: in total you should plan at least 57 days: • 30 seminar days (including travel) • 12 days overall for the training project (preparatory work, prep meeting and the course itself) • 15 days (on average 1-2 days per month) for following the personal learning commitments, the online work, peer learning, mentor talks etc. Within this Training of Trainers course (ToT-course) participants have the chance to further develop their competences as a trainer. The ToT-course considers the following 7 competences to be essential when working as a non-formal education trainer within the Youth in Action programme and its successor programme from 2014: • The competence to plan educational activities in line with the values and purposes of the programmes. • 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 enter the ToT-course with various levels of prior experience as trainer as well as competences developed - consequently, the learning needs of participants are different. The educational approach implemented in the ToT-course intends to allow for these different learning needs to be identified and pursued. At the core of this process is the competence of the participant to direct his/her own learning. The group as a source for peer learning and the trainers as facilitators of these learning processes are essential pillars of this approach. ATTENTION!!! Participants have to be recruited by their National Agencies for the Youth in Action programme who will cover the expenses related to the participation in the course (travel, board and lodging, practical project, etc.). Some NAs reserved the places exclusiv for trainers of their national trainer pools, other NAs also select trainers not being member of the pools. Please check your chance to be selected with your NA before investing time to fill the application form. 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 the successor programme of Youth in Action and/or for training courses organised by the National Agencies. • 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 can be found at www.salto-youth.net/ToT