Training course: inFormal – integration of non-formal education approach to the formal education system for youth empowerment at local level

Location: Rostov Velikiy (next to Moscow), Russian Federation

Dates: 24 July – 1 August 2016

Number of participants: 35

Participating countries: France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Romania

Organizer: Academy of innovation and KURO Hradec Kralove

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Deadline to apply: 12 July 2016

Date of Selection: 16 July 2016

Inquiries about this training course: Eduard Oganyan: informal.lttc@gmail.com

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Costs: This project is financed by Erasmus+ programme. Full board and lodging costs are covered by the organisers for all participants. All participants will be accommodated by two persons in one room. Three times meal and coffee-brakes will be provided while all time of your stay. Participation fee: there will be 50 EURO participation fee for each stage of LTTC that will be deducted from the travel reimbursement. STAGE 1 (Russia) Travel costs will be reimbursed according to the next maximum amounts:

France, Greece – up to 360 euro
Germany, Romania – up to 275 euro
Portugal – up to 820 euro

Visa costs will be covered up to 70 euro per participant

inFormal – integration of non-formal education approach to the formal education system for youth empowerment at local level

CALL IS ONLY FOR PARTICIPANTS FROM ROMANIA, GERMANY, FRANCE, PORTUGAL AND GREECE. LTTC “inFormal” is an attempt to use non-formal education as a tool for youth empowerment in order to build a stable and productive co-working platform for educators.

THIS IS AN ADDITIONAL CALL OPEN ONLY FOR PARTICIPANTS FROM GERMANY, FRANCE, ROMANIA AND GREECE AS DUE TO A LAST MINUTE CANCELLATION WE HAVE 4 PLACES.

The long-term training course “inFormal – integration of non-formal education approach to the formal education system for youth empowerment at local level” is an attempt to use non-formal education as a tool for youth empowerment in order to address all the mentioned issues and to build a stable and productive co-working platform for educators coming from formal education and youth field(NGOs and other youth authorities).

LONG-TERM TRAINING COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To unite efforts of youth workers coming from formal and other youth field backgrounds for youth empowerment at local level by using non-formal education
To build a necessary set of competences for proficient use of non-formal education instruments and tools for youth empowerment at local level
To introduce the values, principles of non-formal educations
To discuss the recognition of competences gained by non-formal education
To provide the possibility to plan, experiment and to get feedback to the non-formal education activities
To discuss and introduces the ways of integration of non-formal education activities to the system of formal education
To provide the opportunity to assess the quality of non-formal education activities and youth empowerment process at local level
To build a network and to create joined actions in order to address current challenges

OUTCOMES:
As a general outcome, we expect our participants to improve their competences in non-formal education and in the topic of youth empowerment as well as other competences linked to their professional profile; to broader understanding of non-formal education as the most effective tool for youth empowerment, to better understand the interconnections between formal and non-formal education, training and labor market respectively and to improve quality of their work at local, national and international levels.

ACTIVITIES:
This project has two main Activities and three stages. First Activity and stage is aimed on training participants about non-formal methods of learning and their practical use. Second stage is “homework” stage where participants will apply the gained information at their home countries/organizations/contexts. And finally, the last Activity and stage is aimed on reflection, perfection of gained competences of participants which will lead to sustainable dissemination and follow up. This concept seems to us as the best way to really “educate” educators and to allow them to obtain new competences which they will use to improve their teaching approaches. Each Activity is planned to be organized in different country from reasons described lower (aside of that reasons, stay in different countries will support intercultural learning element, especially when one of countries is recently heavily “demonized” by mass media)

ACTIVITY 1. inFormal BASIC, training course, 24/07/2016 – 01/08/2016 (including arrival and departure days), Rostov, Russia
The TC aims to enable youth workers, trainers and educators coming fromformal education background to embed non-formal education principles, methodology and tools to the formal system in order to create friendly and safe environment for youth empowerment and increasing youth participation at local level This training course was born in cooperation of several organizations working at daily basis with school children and students. This work could be more efficient in terms of outcomes if school and university staff as well were not resisting the changes that youth empowerment process creates. With this TC, we set 3 strategic objectives: to explain what youth empowerment is and how it works, to provide a set of tools that can be practically used in youth empowerment at schools and universities; to explain the meaning and values of non-formal education as a key instrument in youth empowerment and to try out how it works. In simple words, the aim of the first activity is to give participants (educators) introduction to non-formal learning methodology, in the first phase, and then let them develop their own sessions and workshops based on knowledge they acquired, under supervision of trainers, in the second phase. Later they will share their experiences, learn from them and have opportunity to utilize it in their teaching reality (which is the next step)
After the training course we expect our participants: to change their way of work and to make it more participative and transparent for youth; to understand the approach and principles of non-formal education and to use it for youth empowerment; to be able to use non-formal education tools during lessons, lectures, meetings, sessions, training activities they organize – giving more freedom and responsibility to learners; to be equipped with a set of other tools of youth empowerment (coaching and mentoring); to become active actors in promoting youth participation at local level.
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
– to reevaluate the role of educator in the formal system
– to introduce principles of non-formal education and to integrate them to the formal education system
– to introduce non-formal methodology and tools and to adapt them to the formal background
– to introduce the concept of youth empowerment and to experience empowerment tools
– to understand the importance of youth participation and how non-formal education methods can contribute to more interactive education process inside schools/colleges/universities
– to practice and to test different methods, tools and techniques
– to share and discuss good practices and challenges
– to take the responsibility for fostering youth
– to build competences in designing, implementing and evaluation of non-formal education activity
– to understand principles of group learning through facilitation and debriefing
– to understand the value of personal development through feedback
– to identify the limits of educator in the education process
– to understand how to give responsibility for the learning process and educational flow to learners
– to make a plan of integration of the non-formal education approach to the formal setting (concrete ideas and steps)

HOME WORK (Practical phase)
This training course will be followed by the practical phase, when participants come back home to deliver non-formal education session for young people from their communities. This training modules should be organised in cooperation with local schools/universities and youth NGOs. During this process they will monitored and coached by the trainers and experts online. Besides that, they will be offered on-line learning opportunity helping them during this phase.

ACTIVITY 2. inFormal Quality Assessment, training course, 4-12 December 2016 (including arrival and departure days) Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.
This is the second and the last activity (we do not count the Practical phase into Activities; if so, it would be third activity) in the frame of the project. The main aim is to assess outcomes from the practical stage as well as the personal and professional development.

MAIN OBJECTIVES:
– Reflecting on the outcomes from the practical phases of LTTC
– Assessing personal and professional development
– Assessing personal training style and personal expression
– Sharing “best” and “worst” practices of integration of NFE in the formal education in the field of youth empowerment
– Discussing different approaches to NFE, youth empowerment
– Creating new tools for youth empowerment
– Re‐looking different theories and means of NFE
– Peer-to-peer learning and support
– Developing the personal learning plan
– Assessing and evaluation of techniques of different forms of learning
– Creating the innovative learning modules
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