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Doors to the Future
Community-based Training and Learning
Contents
1. Introduction2. Sofia Seminar Objectives3. Sofia Seminar Programme4. Community-based Training and Learning: a European Consortium5. Guidelines for Training and Learning 2005-20066. From Relay to distillation in Laboratory 2007-20087. Do-it-yourself Guide for the RELAY-PROCESS8. Review of Budapest Declaration9. Sofia Statement 200910. Open Method of Co-ordination11. Criteria for Multipliers12. Conclusion: Doors to the future
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1. Introduction
This booklet has been produced for participants in the Seminar in Sofia on community-basedtraining and learning. The main purpose of the Seminar is to explore how to share the results of exchanges on community-based training and learning. The seminar is part of a European-fundedproject on Training and Learning for Community Development, which is run by EuropeanConsortium of 16 partners from non-Governmental organisations under the leadership of theCombined European Bureau for Social Development.In 2007-2008 Partners took part in a series of experimental relay visits where they carriedanalysis of Training and Learning in Community Development from Belgium to Hungary; fromHungary to the United Kingdom; from the United Kingdom to Slovakia; and from Slovakia to Germany.The relay visits included field visits and were backed up by electronic networking. The involvementof local professionals from Local Authorities, non-governmental organisations, and educationalorganisations enriched the level of exchange and learning from practice.The Consortium had its origins in a previous partnership in 2006, which identified the triangleof exchange between citizens, professionals and policy-makers as a key activity to promote participation in Life Long Learning. In Budapest 2006 they looked at core principles of CommunityDevelopment and proposed guidelines for training and learning systems. Current work also relatesto programmes running alongside such as the. People in Politics project lead by Sagene in Norwayand the European Dialogue project led by the Hungarian Association for Community Development.At the Laboratory in Sweden in October 2008, partners distilled lessons from relay visits insearch of keys to make the process of networking and dissemination relevant to others in the field.At the Seminar in Sofia, they seek to establish on-going, interactive, sustainable exchange, whichwill continue work on implementing, adapting and evaluating European guidelines for training andlearning for community development.As identified in the guidelines and reiterated in the relay visits and laboratory, training andlearning is seen as an interactive process and the Sofia Seminar seeks to extend this interactivelearning to dissemination. Peer learning is combined with a high level of engagement with lifelonglearning combined with the principles of equality and intercultural exchange. This means methodsand techniques for training are adjusted to the context and to the participants, whilst maintainingadherence to the highest available standards of practice in training and learning.The working methods used in the Seminar reflect this shared commitment to Training andlearning as an interactive process. All participants are expected to play an active part in theprogramme. Partners form four working groups to prepare the seminar and all participants areexpected to check out
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The Sofia challenge is to engage 150 Europeans in sustainable networking as multipliers of thelessons from exchange.
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Sofia Seminar Objectives
2.1 Background to Sofia Seminar: The Sofia Seminar aims to applythe practices and processes of interactive learning todissemination. The themes and topics of the Seminar arematerial that has been collected from previous work on thistheme by partners and their networks. The summary of guidelines and the material from relay visits and laboratory reflectsome level of consensus, which will now be tested in the processof dissemination. The Sofia Seminar itself should be seen as aninteractive learning opportunity. This means ensuring that allparticipants have an active role and that their expertise and thecontext that they operate in should be reflected during theSeminar and in follow-up. The programme outline is providedand participants are asked to reflect on their input before and during the Seminar. There will beopportunities to adapt and amend the programme to reflect input by participants. The expectedoutput from the Seminar is identified in the following objectives:2.2 Identify which findings from the project on Training and Learningfor Community Development can be disseminated(see Background Information below and
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for more information.)a. Assess the relevance of results of relays and laboratoryin 2008 to a wider networkb. Review the Guidelines produced by the GrundtvigThematic Seminar 2006 to identify those guidelines,which are transferablec. Relate the project to Community Development policyinitiatives especially the Budapest Declaration 2004specifically those Articles on Training and Learning2.3 Share information on Training and Learning opportunities (regional, nationaland European), which support the development of civic skills and community participation(with a focus on 25-64 year olds who have not had third level education)2.4 Stimulate and participate in the creation of a sustainable, creative, interactive network of 150multipliers with appropriate tools and methods to disseminate good practice and policies, whichpromote the development of civic skills and community participation.
Sofia Seminar Programme
a. The background and objectives to the Seminar (see section 2) are linked to the EuropeanUnion funded project through the following:I. The history of training and learning for Community Development in Europe in the different contexts.Some of the material produced during preparation for the Seminar; during the exhibition; or infollow-up to the seminar can be used as training and learning material in the future.II. The national and personal approach: Ideally, each partner should have at least one meeting with
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