TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Miguel Angel Garcia Lopez
The training course aimed to support the quality development of non-formal education activities in the Council of Europe through the development of competence of trainers active in the youth field.
The strategic and institutional objectives for the course were:
- to contribute to the recognition and quality development of non-formal education in the youth field in Europe;
- to contribute to the development of a professional profile of youth trainers in Europe and the recognition of their competences;
- to support quality development in the work of youth organisations in Europe in non-formal education, notable those cooperating with the European Youth Centres of the Council of Europe;
- to contribute to the quality and sustainability of the youth programme of the Council of Europe and its partners including the enlargement and diversification of the Trainers Pool;
- to promote the Council of Europe’s values and approaches underlying European youth work and to reflect on how they should apply in training activities.
The educational objectives of the course were:
- to support participants in gaining a good understanding of the Council of Europe’s institutional framework, values, principles and practices underlying non-formal education with young people in the Council of Europe and in developing coherence and consistent non-formal education training activities;
- to develop participants’ competence to design, run and evaluate non-formal education and training activities at European level, based on an adequate needs analysis and using appropriate methodologies;
- to explore the notion of quality in non-formal education and training activities and how to apply it;
- to advocate the role of training and non-formal education within the current priorities of European and national youth policies;
- to reflect on the ethical, professional and social implications of working as a trainer in non-formal education;
- to support participants to learn how to guide and facilitate intercultural processes in non-formal education settings;
- to support participants to learn how to manage a non-formal education and training project effectively;
- to reflect on the contribution of non-formal education and training to the development of a human rights culture.
The course was open for applicant from all Council of Europe member states and beyond, mainly neighboring countries. 23 participants were coming from 21 countries.
Non-formal education methods at the residential seminars and e-learning, mentoring participant-trainers.
The participants of the TRAYCE course were trainers full-filling the junior trainer criteria for the Youth Departments trainers Pool. At the end of the course, participants developed their competences in designing, organising, running and evaluating non-formal education activities within youth work field.
I was a team member.