Trainer Educator Training Course Erasmus Project

Project Title

Trainer Educator Training Course

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Quality Assurance

Project Summary

The project is implemented by three public administration organizations training state civil servants: the LSPA – the Latvian School of Public Administration, the KSAP – The Lech Kaczyński National School of Public Administration of Poland and the HAUS Finnish Institute of Public Management.

CONTEXT
The initial idea about creating the course was based on the analysis which showed that:
a) there are no large scale professional development activities for trainers teaching adults in public administration, no opportunity to become a trainer educator and no guidelines for trainers in public administration.
b) The public administration sector lacks training on how to open up the government and the public sector to innovations and include the innovation in the services provided by the state government.

OBJECTIVES
The objective of the project was to develop a Trainer Educator Training Course (TEC) for the trainers in public administration sector and upon the course develop the Guidelines for training which would contain a new approach, a methodology, a schedule of the course, lesson outlines and activities to be ready for the use in in-service training of trainer educators in public administration institutions.

NUMBER AND TYPE/PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
The direct target audience is training facilitators, trainer educators and also trainers in the public administration sector. These are about 2000 people in all three partner countries together.

The participants were professionals relevant to the Adult Education, Higher Education, non-formal education sectors and public administration sector; also the training staff working at LSPA, KSAP, and HAUS.

DESCRIPTION OF UNDERTAKEN ACTIVITIES
– 3 short-term-joint-staff training events organized in Poland, Finland and Latvia, related to 7 topics aka Modules of the TEC.
– 9 Training demonstration workshops in Latvia, 3 in Poland and 3 in Finland after each short-term joint staff training event.
– Informative briefing sessions for the staff of each institution involved in the implementation of the project ad by relevant stakeholders.
– 2 day International conference attended by 35 trainers from various public sector institutions, educational centers and universities of Latvia in order to learn about the aims and scope of the project, specific subjects related to the adult education and try out the activities presented in the TEC.
– 3 different 3 hours long workshops on the topics based on the content of the TEC as a part of the Multiplier Event, attended by 32 trainers/educators from various public sector institutions, educational centres and universities.

RESULTS AND IMPACT ATTAINED
– The Innovative Trainer Educator Course (TEC) for the trainer educators and trainers in the public administration sector which stimulates innovative and interactive approaches to training and learning in the public sector. The Course provides an opportunity to embrace the main areas of key competencies for trainers/ trainer educators in public administration and enhance them with the knowledge about the innovative ways of training their subjects of expertise. The highlight of the course is to make trainers more competitive and employable as well as to improve services provided for the general public by public administration organizations. The Course will impact the improvement of trainers’ facilitation skills; will develop their design thinking; will impact the more efficient use of the ICT; will give the better understanding of the concept of the innovation which trainers will apply in accordance to their competence arias and to the specific educational needs of public servants. The Course can be easily adapted to any other training and education sector if necessary.

– Guidelines for trainers working in the public administration sector on how to apply Training Educator Training Course to all of the areas of adult education, on how to conduct it. The Guidelines will allow every educational organization to train their trainers on how to become trainer educator, so they could in their turn train other trainers on how to effectively deliver their specific subject and contribute to the implementation of innovations on every level of the society, aiming particularly the public service sector.

LONGER-TERM BENEFITS
– Guidelines for trainers for applying and conducting the TEC will be used in the in-house documents of LSPA, KSAP, and HAUS to ensure a unified approach to the training delivery.
– There are going to be organized at least two teachers/ trainers training events a year on the basis of the produced results.
– The LSPA and the KSAP will share the course and the guidelines with the public service administrating institution – the State Chancellery and will make the course a part of the regular training program in the LSPA and KSAP.
– The Course and the Guidelines in English, Latvian and Polish languages are freely available on the web pages of the 3 partner institutions.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 76239,72 Eur

Project Coordinator

VALSTS ADMINISTRACIJAS SKOLA & Country: LV

Project Partners

• HAUS Finnish Institute of Public Management Ltd
• Krajowa Szkola Administracji Publicznej im. Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej Lecha Kaczynskiego