Profile of the participants: The participants are teachers or adult trainers active in the sending organization interested in non-formal education methods, with or without previous experience, willing to develop themselves professionally not only through the course, but by involving themselves in preparatory and follow up activities. They must be interested in other cultures and in developing the institution’s European dimension.

Objectives:

– To develop competences regarding applying non-formal education in different formal settings in order to improve the motivation of the students

– To stimulate the participants to feel and reflect about the power of Non-Formal Education (NFE) by experimenting different kind of non-formal educational methods

– To explore meanings, roles and complementary of different educational dimensions (formal, non-formal, informal).

– To share best practices and transfer knowledge and methods between different cultural zones and different learner ages

– To develop tools (a guide, a digital game etc.) about ways of applying non-formal education in the formal environment for different age groups

– To enable participants in non-formal activities and techniques for their own teaching context in order to improve the motivation of their students, and to reconsider daily education-work practices

– To increase participants’ confidence in working with non-formal methods, using their own qualities, talents, differences, as well as the collective intelligence of the home team they will guiding in the valorisation process

– To promote European cooperation in the field of education within the framework of the Erasmus+ program by partnership building