COMETS – Cooperating successfully in teams

Training Course
13-19 March 2019 | Greece

for 25 participants
from Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme countries Austria, Belgium - DE, Belgium - FL, Belgium - FR, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Partner Countries Neighbouring the EU Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, KOSOVO * UN RESOLUTION, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestine, Russian Federation, Serbia, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine

and recommended for
Trainers

Working language(s):
English

Organizer:
Youth and Lifelong Learning Foundation (I.NE.DI.VI.M) (National Agency)

Co-organizer(s):
SALTO Training & Cooperation Resource Centre (SALTO)

In the context of the European Training Strategy (ETS) the SALTO Training & Cooperation Resource Centre (SALTO T&C RC) developed the Competence Model for Trainers Working at International Level: www.salto-youth.net/trainercompetences.

The ‘COMETS training courses’ are developed as a support for trainers in their competence development, each course focusing on one competence area of the above-mentioned model. 
Hence, with this call, Youth and Lifelong Learning Foundation (I.NE.DI.VI.M), the Greek National Agency for Erasmus+ Youth in Action together with SALTO T&C RC invite trainers to take part in this fifth edition of COMETS: ‘Cooperating successfully in teams’.

This particular competence from the model encompasses the following competences:

• Contributing actively to team tasks
• Being willing to take on responsibility
• Encouraging and involving other team members
• Learning with and from others
• Being aware of the team processes and how they affect the team’s effectiveness
• Managing disagreements effectively

Taking the above into account, the INTENTIONS of the course are, amongst others:
- To reflect on the concept of team work from different perspectives;
- To explore dimensions such as empathy, respect, honesty and integrity in a team context and process;
- To reflect on and explore the attitudes of teams (as a system) and team members;
- To explore ways to stimulate, support, and empower teams and team colleagues;
- To explore working with emotions in a team context;
- To raise awareness about own challenges and strengths in teamwork.

COMETS training courses intend principally to offer trainers a space to reflect, exchange and contrast their practice and understanding with regard to a certain ETS competence area. The main purpose is to enable participants to take further steps in their professional practice. In that sense, COMETS is more a ‘learning experience’ than a training course stricto sensu.

No matter the focus on each edition, the COMETS are all based on a series of PRINCIPLES, which are:

• Awareness: me – the group – the field – the context; 
• Readiness to question and to review practice; 
• Readiness to stretch boundaries; 
• Being explicit about choices as trainers;
• Integrity: Walk the talk!
• Giving space to the whole person: body - mind - soul - heart;
• Awareness: Being here as learner in a community of learners;
• Giving to Caesar what’s Caesars’: acknowledging [re]sources of practice.

The team of trainers for this COMETS edition are Nik Paddison and Peter Hofmann.

Following the selection process, the training team will contact participants with specific information and tasks regarding the further development of the programme. This is to ensure that the needs of the participants are taken into account in order to maximise the potential that the course offers.

PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE
COMETS is a training for trainers format which provides trainers, being advanced in the implementation of international trainings for youth workers, with opportunities to come together to reflect upon, discuss and develop further on different competence areas of the ETS competence model. In the context of COMETS, ‘advanced’ means that the trainer-learner has the capacity to direct his/her own learning and in particular, the ability to self-assess his/her own competences.

The GENERAL INTENTIONS of the COMETS are:

• To contribute to quality development of youth work and of training practise in the field;
• To put the ETS competence model into practice;
• To support National Agencies and other youth sector organizations in working with trainers on competence development;
• To contribute to the professional development of trainers in the field.

Please find attached the guiding principles developed for the COMETS. For further information around the series of COMETS: www.salto-youth.net/COMETS

Please find here further material for reading: The ETS competence model for trainers working at international level www.salto-youth.net/trainercompetences

In cooperation with some Erasmus+: Youth in Action National Agencies SALTO T&C RC has developed a strategy to provide opportunities for trainers to develop their competences according to their needs and needs of training providers like National Agencies. Please find more information on www.salto-youth.net/trainercompetencedevelopment 

Training overview

Costs
This project is financed by the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme. Being selected for this course, all costs (accommodation, travel, visa, etc.) relevant to participation in the course will be covered by the NAs or SALTO involved in this project - except a participation fee which varies from call to call and country to country. Please contact your Erasmus+: Youth in Action NA to learn more about the financial details, and how to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.

In case you live in one of the countries of the Western Balkans, SouthMed or Eastern Partnership and the Russian Federation, please contact your corresponding SALTO Resource centre (respectively see@salto-youth.net, euromed@salto-youth.net and eeca@salto-youth.net) for further information.

Note: Hungarian applicants are expected to apply on a Hungarian and on an English application form, too.

Jelentkezési lap

Kódszám a jelentkezéshez: 2018-1-HU01-KA218-000115

Application form in English
 

Application deadline: 5 November 2018
Date of selection: 20 November 2018
 

Contact for questions:
Szoke Zsófia / Ms Zsofia Szoke
Programkoordinátor | Programme coordinator
zsofia.szoke@tpf.hu

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