Trainers Pool
This database includes information about the members, comprising of information on the trainer’s formal and non-formal educational background, their experience in training at European and national levels, their fields of expertise in training young people, key competencies and the topics they deliver training on, their language competencies and personal contact details.
All members have the opportunity to indicate their 4 preferred topics in training young people from an extensive list.
What are TP members concretely asked to do?
Members of the Trainers Pool are contacted to participate in the running of several different types of educational activity as indicated in the annual programme of the Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation. Depending on their competencies, TP members are contacted, and later some of them are contracted as:
- External training consultants at study sessions of international youth organisations replacing the YD educational advisor;
- Members of preparatory teams which prepare, run and evaluate training courses organised by the Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation;
- Members of preparatory teams which prepare, run and evaluate seminars organised by the Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation;
and occasionally
- General Rapporteurs or editors for reports about the activities of Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation;
- Lecturers and experts providing a short input for the above mentioned activities.
Note: Membership of the Trainers Pool does not guarantee the offer of contracts to any member of the Trainers Pool. Contracts to Pool members are offered according to the needs of the Directorate, usually two times per year. In the past 2 years an open call to Pool members soliciting their interest for study sessions and certain training courses was established as regular procedure.
How to become member of the Trainers’ Pool of the Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation?
In accordance with the dynamics of the youth work sector, the Trainers’ Pool of the Youth Department (TP YD should ensure continuous up-date and access to the best-prepared and most competent trainers in the youth field in Europe. At the same time, the TP YD should enable trainers in the youth field, predominantly new competent young trainers to access the database and ultimately to be hired to run activities for the Youth Department.
This requires very flexible admission criteria for the new members of the Trainers’ Pool. These criteria should allow new members to enter the Pool on a continuous basis while, maintaining the high quality standards in the YD and minimum level of competences required for TP members.