Trainer Profile: Reinhard Eckert

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1. Training: Contact making seminar "Europeans meet in Caucasus" (26/04/2007 - 30/04/2007, Tbilisi, Georgia)

   Organised by:

   Future Worlds Center (Cyprus) and Youth Association Droni (Georgia) for a period of 4 days.

   Description:

   1) Aims and objectives:
   facilitate cooperation between youth NGOs from EU and EECA countries, establish relationships, build up mutual trust between the participating organisations and prepare joint project proposals within the Youth in Action Programme
   
   2) Target group & composition of the group & team:
   20 participants representing 11 youth organisations from youth organisations from 10 different countries: 5 programme/EU countries (Austria, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia and Poland) and 5 non-programme countries in Eastern Europe and Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine); 5 trainers/facilitators from Austria (Cyprus), Georgia and Poland
   
   3) Training methods:
   Concerning the methodology, the following principles were applied:
   • Hand, Head and Heart - Holistic Approach (Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes)
   • Safe Space (trust in the place and methods)
   • Open-minded communication and mutual understanding
   • Self-responsibility in participation
   • Interactive training methods
   • Trainees-Centred activities
   • Learning from Experience
   • Taking into account individual and group learning processes (using the group as a resource)
   • Non-formal constructivist learning approach combined with theoretical inputs.
   Furthermore a diverse mix of traditional and innovative methods were used: Group works, interactive methods, inputs, a simulation game, a city dicovery game, presentations (flipchart, video, power point), discussions, etc.
   
   4) Outcomes:
   more than 30 ideas for joint projects between participating organisations developed; participants succeeded to exchange contacts, expertise and visions and managed to identify common aims, needs, concerns and interests of the 11 different partner organisations.
   
   5) My tasks and responsibilities:
   Preparation of the seminar programme, facilitation of several sessions, evaluation, documentation and practical organisation

   Reference person:

   Giorgi Kakulia = co-trainer (giorgi.kakulia@gmail.com, +99599964599)

2. Training: Seminar on intercultural learning and project development in the context of the long-term project "Everybody's song" (31/03/2007 - 06/04/2007, Ohrid, FYR Macedonia)

   Organised by:

   Future Worlds Center (Cyprus) & Youth Forum Eye (FYR Macedonia) for a period of 6 days.

   Description:

   1) Aims and objectives:
   • Consolidating an international learning and working community
   • training youth organizations in intercultural learning, promotion of diversity and project development
   • facilitating partnerships between youth NGOs and musicians
   • facilitating the development of project-related activities in all five countries involved
   
   2) Target group & composition of the group & team:
   27 participants from six different countries representing one dozen youth organizations in South East Europe and the Mediterranean region. About one third of the seminar participants had a background in music or other arts. The other two third were youth activists and leaders, teachers, trainers and professional NGO workers. The trainers were Aniko Kaposvari from Hungary, Darko Markovic from Serbia and Reinhard Eckert from Austria (Cyprus).
   
   3) Training methods:
   interactive drama methods (theatre of the oppressed), video and pp presentations, discussions, individual reflections, brainstorming, mind mapping, group works, panel discussion, organisations' fair, intercultural evening, jam session, performances
   
   4) Outcomes:
   The seminar raised awareness of some significant intercultural issues, like discrimination, cultural sensitivity, etc., contributed significantly to networking and cooperation between five different countries and set a good basis for the successful implementation of local activities and the overall realization of the long term project “Everybody’s song”.
   
   5) My tasks and responsibilities:
   I developed the whole project (Everybody's song) which provided the context for the seminar, defined its objectives, selected the trainers and prepared the programme together with them and I facilitated the last two days of the seminar. Furthermore my tasks were related to the overall organisation, evaluation and documentation of the seminar.

   Reference person:

   Darko Markovic = co-trainer (darkovic@eunet.yu, )

3. Training: Training of trainers and consultancy (February & March 2005, March 2006, Brezovica, Gjilan/Gnjilane, Pris(h)tina & Prizren)

   Organised by:

   CARE International Kosovo for a period of 22 days.

   Description:

   Actually this was a range of five trainings and a consultancy for the development of a human rights education manual.
   
   1) Aims and objectives and target group:
   Training of trainers, teachers and CARE field workers in human rights education, interactive teaching, peace education, combating intolerance & discrimination
   
   2) Composition of the participants & team:
   Participants came from different ethnic groups (Kosovo-Albanians, Serbs, Bosniaks and Roma). The trainers came from Hungary and Austria.
   
   3) Training methods:
   a range of experiential and interactive exercises and activities, including creative methods and complex instruction methodology
   
   4) Outcomes:
   - Local educators and staff of CARE and partners trained and equipped with knowledge, values and skills for human rights education and of why and how to address xenophobia and intolerance in Kosovo schools and the society.
   - Training reports in English language with attached evaluation of the trainings by the participants as well as recommendations for improved implementation of human rights education.
   
   5) My tasks and responsibilities:
   Preparation of the programme, running all the training sessions together with my colleague, training reports and co-editing a manual for human rights education manual and interactive teaching in Kosovo

   Reference person:

   Aniko Kaposvari = co-trainer (aniko.kaposvari@gmail.com, +43 699 12673321)