European level ToT Stakeholders meeting

Over the past few years, training of/for youth trainers at an advanced European level has become a key working area for many structures and institutions traditionally involved in youth worker training. Given the limited human and financial resources available for this kind of training a stakeholders meeting was organised to check the interest to develop a common training strategy for trainers at European level.

The European stakeholders meeting on European-level Training of/for Trainers was organised by the Partnership Programme and the SALTO Training and Co-operation RC from 19-21 June in Budapest, 30 participants representing the various stakeholders involved in training of trainers in Europe were present.

The meeting aimed to:

• Bring together the different stakeholders offering international and European-level training of/for trainers and provide them with a space for exchanging their motivation and strategy to train trainers;
• Carry out a 'mapping exercise' of European-level training/of for trainers (investigation and stock-taking of what exists already in the field, in terms of aims, objectives, target group, format, methodology, curriculum, etc.);
• Provide the stakeholders with some expert input on qualitative, structural and other aspects to be considered when planning, implementing and evaluating training of/for trainers;
• Check the stakeholders' interest in developing a coherent strategy to train trainers at European level and see if minimum criteria / a common framework to train trainers should be developed;

Although some further reflection is definitely needed, the meeting was evaluated as a milestone in the process of developing a common strategy to train trainers at European level. The biggest success seems to be that the topic of training of trainers is now on the political agenda. The initial objectives of the meeting were fully met: the current offers of trainings of trainers in Europe were identified; the various inputs and discussions helped the stakeholders to share their visions and ideas regarding the existing needs of training of trainers in Europe; they also agreed on the need to develop a co-ordinated strategy of training of trainers at European level in the future.

Further concret steps under development are:

• The Forming or Performing Seminar on Training of/for Trainers methodologies and approaches in the youth field to valorise the developments made within previous ToTs
• The study on Competences required for high-quality European level non-formal education and training in the youth field, to describe competences needed to work as a European level trainer in the youth field.
• A "generic" ToTcarried out by the Partnership Programme and to be recognised by the Council of Europe, the European Youth Forum, and the European Commission with it´s structures to implement the YOUTH IN ACTION programme.

You want to know more? Please read the report of the meeting attached.

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Report of the stakeholders meeting on European-level Training of/for Trainers (358.3 kB)

Author: Udo Teichmann / Contact: / Last modified: 2010-03-11

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