Phase

Timing

Content

Phase 1:
Preparation

• Introduction to The LOFT
• Group-building on-line
• Clarifying terminology
• Basics of youth work in Europe & link with local reality

Phase 2:
Seminar 1 (Strasbourg)

19 - 26 May 2009 (working days)

• Introduction: Sharing contexts, experiences.
• Institutional background
• Group building
• NFE (I)
• Role of a youth trainer
• Participants as learners – How do I learn best?
• Introduction of features of the course (Peer pairs, Mentoring, Learning Projects, Training Project)
• Link to youth research and youth policy (I)

Phase 3: 
Practice and LOFT-phase 1

June 2009 – February 2010

• Sharing, learning, having fun, discussing, meeting on an on-going basis in The LOFT
• Preparing, implementing and sharing of Learning Project(s)
• Possibility to implement Training (practice) Project
• 9 October 2009: Open LOFT day
• Thematic areas for e-learning sessions (depending on learning needs and run partially by participant-trainers for peers – or sometimes a larger public)

Phase 4: 
Seminar 2 (Berlin)

24 February - 4 March 2010 (working days)

• Consolidating learning
• NFE (II): Quality standards in NFE (1)
• Mid-term self-assessment: Reviewing personal learning plans
• E-learning support
• Contributions from participant-trainers’ Learning Projects (workshops, inputs etc)
• Trainers competences // Experiencing (depending on learning needs)
• Link to youth research and policy (2)

Phase 5: 
Practice and LOFT-phase 2

March – October 2010

• Content sharing, learning, having fun, discussing, meeting on an on-going basis in The LOFT
• Preparing, implementing and sharing of Learning Project(s)
• Possibility to implement Training (practice) Project

Phase 6:
Seminar 3 (Budapest)

7 - 14 October 2010 (working days)

• Evaluation of the whole process
• Evaluation of Training Project and Learning Projects
• Closure of features: peer pairs, mentoring
• Evaluation of the e-learning
• Personal learning plans: review and final self-assessment (portfolio)
• Contributions from participant-trainers (workshops, inputs etc)
• NFE (III): Quality standards in NFE (2)
• Profile of a trainer at European level
• Transfer: Next steps

Phase 7:
Evaluation
Follow-up

October – December 2010

• Networking
• Capitalisation of experience
• Evaluation report
• Review of competences assessment
• Impact study?