The mobility #1 in Rennes about the analysis of the teaching activities of trainers

About fifteen trainers, consultants and training managers from 4 countries (Austria Greece, Italy and France) met in Rennes from the 16th to the 21st of January at the Regional Governement Body of the Ministry of Education to work on the teaching competences of trainers in Europe. The four organisations involved are GIP-FAR (France), BFI-OÖ (Austria), ENAIP (Italy) and INTEGRATION KEK (Greece).

The objective of this Erasmus+ project "ESCOT" seminar, promoted by GIP-FAR, is to define and develop a "core" of teaching competences of trainers, shared at the European level.

The job of adult trainer has indeed two "hearts"; a first heart linked to the specific field of expertise of the trainer which provides him his legitimacy and another "heart", linked to his ability to transmit his expertise, to share it and facilitate learning in a group of trainees, his "teaching competences".

The project 'ESCOT' aims at developing this core of teaching competences through flexible, multimodal training, close to the real situations experienced by the trainers and to encourage the evaluation of these teaching competences by the trainers themselves and by the organizations that employ them. The 3 years project will be an opportunity for inquiries into the teaching activities of trainers in Brittany, Northern Italy, Northern Austria and Greece. It will eventually provide innovative training resources and competences monitoring tools to all European training organizations...