⛵ Training Course: The Power of Non Formal Education

Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

Dates: 5-10 March 2024

Number of participants: 30 participants

Participating countries: Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries

Organizer: Human Resource Development Centre- BG National agency (National Agency)

Apply here: Application form

Deadline to apply: 31 December , 2023

Date of Selection: 12 January, 2024

Inquiries about this training course: Deya Tosheva, Stefan Gruev, Simona Trifonova at TCABulgaria@hrdc.bg

Costs

Participation fee: none
100% accommodation, food are covered
Travel costs: Please contact your NA or SALTO in order to know whether they would support your travel costs. If yes, after being selected, get in touch with your NA or SALTO again to learn more about the overall procedure to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.

The Power of Non Formal Education

Improving the impact of Non Formal Education (NFE), principles and methods in creating empowerment opportunities for young people as real actors of the society (from local to Europe).

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).