Training of Trainers for European Erasmus+: Youth in Action Projects 2015/2016

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 25 September - 4 October 2015 in Bulgaria 2nd seminar 12 -21 February 2016 in Germany 3rd seminar 3-9 July 2016 in Belgium This course requires a considerable time investment from the participants: in total you should plan at least 55 days: • 28 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. In line with the European Training Strategy in the frame of Erasmus+: Youth in Action programme the ToT-course considers the following competences to be essential when working as a non-formal education trainer within the Youth in Action programme: • The competence to understand and facilitate individual and group learning processes. • The competence to design educational programmes. • The competence to direct one´s own learning (Learning to Learn) • The competence to co-operate successfully in teams. • The competence to communicate meaningfully with others. • Intercultural competence. 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. 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 Erasmus+: Youth in Action projects and/or for training courses organised by the National Agencies of the Erasmus+: 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 can be found at www.salto-youth.net/ToT