Collaborating in Youth Worker Teams

Awero team and its partners are offering a 5th modular training for youth workers, aligned to the European Training Strategy (ETS) competence model. 

The training course will contribute to the development of youth workers’ competencies in the area of “Collaborating in teams”**: 

• Awareness of the team processes and how they affect the team’s effectiveness
• Ability to build team spirit and trust
• Ability to match team member competences to the objectives of the activity
• Managing disagreements constructively 
• Encouraging and involving other team members
• Learning with and from team members. 

**“Collaborating in teams” means that the youth worker contributes to team work and maintains good working relations with everyone involved with the project. The youth worker motivates and supports colleagues in achieving given objectives. This competence area also includes systemic cooperation and responsibility in an international context.

Please check the preliminary attached programme. The programme might change depending on the specific participants' learning needs.  

This course is for people who are:

• Youth workers*
• Youth work managers
• Youth centre directors
• Youth programme and project managers
• Directly involved in managing or supporting young people in managing international youth projects
• Age: from 18 years.
• Language: A sufficient level of English is necessary to participate in this course
• Resident in one of the countries identified in the call. 

*Youth worker is understood as someone who works with young people in a wide variety of non-formal and informal learning contexts, typically focusing on young people's personal and social development through one-on-one relationships and group-based activities. 

The course organisers will invite up to 24 participants.

Digital credentials and certification

This training activity is a unique opportunity for participants to use up-to-date and digital recognition solutions, such as digital Open Badges and https://youthworkpathways.net  platform. Participants can use the 360-degree competence assessment, earn digital badges, and receive certificates that prove their competence development.

Highlights of this training activity:

• This course is part of the Erasmus accreditation programme implemented by NGO Awero together with it’s partners. More about the programme: https://awero.org/en/ets-modular-trainings-and-certfication 
• Aligned to the ETS competence model for Youth Workers - the course objectives and content are aligned with professional youth workers’ competences in international youth work settings
• Certified training - the broad coalition of partners will create opportunities for the course participants to assess, validate and recognise competence development at the international level and in specific countries (if possible). 
• Digital friendly - the training and competence assessment methodology and activities will include using digital tools and platforms, for example, YouthWorkPathways.net platform and digital Open Badges.
• Long-term development opportunity - participants willing to continue to develop their professional youth work competences will be invited to apply for the upcoming training courses on other competence areas.
• Endorsed by the broad partnership of Cities of Learning members, national youth worker associations and international organisations from the youth work field.
• Youthpass process and certificate will be offered to participants joining this training programme.