Advanced Training for Trainers in Europe

The Open Learning Community (OLC) was designed specifically to facilitate the Advanced Training for Trainers in Europe long-term training course between 2001-2003.

The training course was an advanced training for trainers already active in training youth multipliers at the European level.

Main characteristics:

• It was a long-term engagement (2-year duration with various additional training elements).
• It was an advanced training, a high-level course for experienced professionals.
• It was a part-time, continuing training programme based on open and distance learning punctuated by face-to-face intensive course models.
• It contained innovative elements: Mentoring, Peer Support Groups, Personal Development Plans, Open Learning Community, Practice projects.
• There were 8 projects developed by participant-trainers. Several of these project received support from Action 5 and the European Youth Foundation.
  Quality standards, training competencies and validation and assessment were three important aspects of the course.
• Being a pilot framework, the course was thoroughly evaluated by an external evaluator. The evaluation report will be published soon.
• Participant-trainers of ATTE developed a "Training Quality Product" (TQP) as a contribution to quality in European Youth Training.

Learn more about ATTE...

• ATTE Volume 2 - External evaluation (2006)
• ATTE Volume 1 - Curriculum description (2005)
• List of Participants
• Course schedule
• Course description
• Projects in the framework of the ATTE course
• Course implementation