European Trainer Network

EEE-YFU is currently replenishing its European Trainers Network and is therefore looking for trainers and facilitators interested in being part of a dynamic resource group ready to undertake the exciting challenge of voluntarily working in this structure of the EEE-YFU. Complete the application form and send it to your National YFU Organisation. Your National YFU Organisation needs to nominate you to EEE-YFU before February 20th, 2012, 15:00 CET.

If you are interested in taking part please download the call here.

Background

In 2010 EEE-YFU launched the European Trainer Network (ETN).  Following the development of the Gothenburg Educational Strategy, EEE-YFU's renewed and revamped policy on bringing its educational activities closer to the needs of its member organisations and enhancing the quality of its educational activities, it became apparent that there is was a great need for an increase in quality trainers within the European YFU community.  In order to address this need, EEE-YFU established the European Trainer Network, composed of trainers who were available to their member organisations (European national YFU organisations) to organise trainings for trainers, staff and volunteers.

2011 refreshment

In early 2011, a call for new members was sent out to the YFU community. Since February 2011 the ETN now has 13 members from 10 countries, from a wide range of backgrounds and experience. This ensures that the pool is representative of the broad spectrum of the European YFU community, and that a broad array of ideas and opportunities are brought to the table.

ETN activities

Members of the European Trainer Network will have the opportunity to organise the educational activities that EEE-YFU is planning.  They will also have the chance to work alongside EEE-YFU's member organisations by being involved in organising and leading their events.  This will be particularly useful for national YFU bodies if they do not currently have people with the required expertise and knowledge within their own national structure.

The European Trainer Network will also allow for its trainers to become more competent and to learn new skills, by attending further training themselves so that they can organise and facilitate high quality events for others.  This will enable them to learn more about how to effectively manage and organise events and volunteers, but will also provide for the trainers to gain a more thorough knowledge of specific topics that are important to national YFU organisations.

It is hoped that this new opportunity will be widely used and will subsequently help to foster a stronger relationship and closer co-operation between EEE-YFU, trainers and the European YFU network, and will provide an easily accessible pool of human resources for trainings and seminars for national members.  It will help to increase the capacity for multiplication of competences and knowledge within the international YFU network.

For further information on the European Trainer Network, and to find out how you can make use of it, please email Brian at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it