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The Power of Non Formal Education
Training Course
14-19 March 2023 | Sofia, Bulgaria
Why this Training Course?
- To stimulate the participants to feel and reflect about the power of non-formal education (NFE) by experimenting different kind of non-formal educational methods.
- To analyze the role and reception of NFE in our different countries within a common Europe.
- To discover and debate the European strategy of NFE.
- To fight against the growing consuming approaches towards young people in the non-formal education field.
- To explore meanings, roles and complementary of different educational dimensions(formal, non-formal, informal).
- To reconsider daily youth work practices.
How it will be done?
In order to have real impact, the participants experience an innovative approach, using a full immersion in the experiential learning cycle: doing/ feeling, reflecting, transferring...
The TC is not limited to the couple of days the participants spend together but starts before the actual encounter. Participants should therefore be well aware that they will be actively involved from the very beginning.
Pre-Training Immersion
- Starting around 6 weeks before the training, through the “NFE News”, participants will receive weekly news which invites reflection on pedagogical issues and collect information / documentation. Participants are part of the building of this NFE News. Also a closed Facebook group will be created to promote interactions between participants before TC starts.
- Issues / topics tackled: perception / recognition of NFE in your country, methods you use/have used…
A Fundamental Flow during the Training
- Experiencing: different educational settings, different non formal education methods (role play, simulation game, exercises...).
- Reflecting: on the methods and its impacts, on the power and limits of NFE, on building a pedagogical process…
- Transferring: to the own reality of participants, in order to improve ways of working with young people.
- Sharing: different perceptions, current situations and experiences.
- Developing: the building capacity of the participants, by including them in the decision process of the project designing (participants will decide some sessions they feel they need to have) but also in the implementation of the program (“Power to the People – the People who are you” moments).
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Training overview
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/10734
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This Training Course is
for 30 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth policy makers
Accessibility info:
This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.
Working language(s):
English
Human Resource Development Centre- BG National agency (National Agency)
Contact for questions:
Deya Tosheva and Dimka Radeva
E-mail: dradeva@hrdc.bg
Phone: +359 9155033
E-Mail:
Phone: +359 9155043
Costs
Participation fee
There is no participation fee by the hosting National Agency. If you have questions about participation fee, please contact the National Agency of Erasmus+ Programme (Youth in Action) in your home country.
Accommodation and food
The hosting National Agency of this offer will organise the accommodation and covers the costs for accommodation and food.
Travel reimbursement
Your sending National Agency will cover your travel costs. The way countries reimburse the travel costs varies from country to country.
If you are selected to participate in this training, the National Agency in your home country will contact you and tell you how the reimbursement is organised in your country.
Ask your National Agency also about travel guidelines that are applicable in your country. You can also ask them about what kind of possible extra costs will be covered due to the pandemic situation (PCR tests, refundable airline tickets, etc.)