Projects developed in the framework of the ATTE course

• "Interactive Youth Participation"
  Albania, Shkodra, 4th – 10th January 2003
  VEB, Accademia Europea with cooperation and development institute

• "Pieces of a European Puzzle: European Dimensions in Youth Work"
  ESTA – Europa Institut Bocholt, 8th to 14th December 2002
  European Citizen Academy – Europa Institut Bocholt

• "Communication and youth organisation: tools for active participation: a three-phase international seminar"
  Pénestin – Bretagne –France (Atlantic coast of Bretagne), 2nd to 10th June 2002
  Manifeste ARA (Animation-Research-Action) Network

• "Euro-Cultures: cultural similarities and differences in the youth work"
  Thessaloniki (Greece), 21st to 30th June 2002
  XENA – Centro Scambi e Dinamiche Interculturali

Criteria for training projects organised by the participant trainers

The training projects developed and implemented by the participant trainers during "Practice I" were a very important element of the whole course. Participant trainers went through a full cycle of a training project in the field of non-formal education/youth from the first preparation until the evaluation. These training projects was implemented with the support or within the framework of the activities of the National Agencies of the YOUTH programme or of the Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe or another training provider/NGO in non-formal education applying the quality standards for a European youth project.

The training projects was defined and agreed during the first two seminars, but in general they met the following criteria:

• be realistic and achievable;
• take place between May 2002 and January 2003;
• represent an added value to the programmes of the Council of Europe and of the European Union in the youth field;
• contribute to European youth projects and to the promotion of European Citizenship;
• be joint projects of course participants (at least two course participants per project);
• be based on real learning needs;
• be beneficial for the participant trainers, the project participants and the organisations involved;
• be part of a learning process and represent a challenge for the participant trainers;
• be open for development and for change as a result of the course;
• be visible, evaluated, and its results made accessible to the training course and other public concerned;
• be multilateral European level training projects;
• have a duration of at least 5 seminar days (excluding travel).

The training projects developed and implemented by the participant trainers during "Practice II" were expected to take place between January and October 2003 and mostly followed the criteria for Practice I with the exception that they did not have to be organised together with other course participants. They were planned in a way that they allowed practicing the competencies acquired during the first year of the course and that they contributed to the individual learning process of the participant trainers as planned at the third seminar in January 2003.