Cyprus Youth Council is participating to LEAD in Practice project. We have entered the third week of the distance first phase of our project that will last until the 24th of November 2017

Project  description:

“LeaD in Practice” is a blended-learning project (combining distance with on-location training) that has been set up to address all the unprocessed, unspoken and unresolved issues and “hot potatoes” that repeatedly emerge during Erasmus+ youth exchanges and training courses and that are usually missed in Training of Trainers courses.

Project Aims:

Improve the competences of youth trainers/learning facilitators in areas which are typically left untouched in training processes, so that they can develop and offer high quality learning projects to their organizations’ learners, while employing principles of Intercultural Dialogue to do so. And at the same time, using an innovative, blended learning format in order to engage the participants and achieve as much a greater learning impact as possible.

Project Objectives:

• Improve trainer competences on successful Learning Design when developing, leading/facilitating and evaluating training projects, with a special focus on the particular qualities, values, ethics and style which are typically missed in other training-of-trainer courses
• Share good practices (and deconstruct bad practices) of Learning Design in order to improve the quality of mobility activities offered through Erasmus+ and other local initiatives in the partner organizations’ countries
• Explore observations, experiences and emotions which remain unprocessed and become “hot potatoes” during training mobilities, so that the participants can learn to identify and deal with them in their future work
• Advance the participants’ knowledge and skills on how the principles of Intercultural Dialogue can support the learning process
• Allow the participants time and space to receive feedback from their peers on their learning design competences
• Formulate, together with the participants, a Model Evaluation Questionnaire that will serve as a necessary step of any future projects the partner organizations will undertake and serve as a tool for any other European organization that wishes to use it
• Advance the participants’ knowledge and skills in using online educational platforms and distant learning tools in their work