Our Mission

The success of competence-centered education is highly depending from the style of facilitation and the attitude of facilitators. Successful facilitation connects attitude - the appreciative, needs oriented, moderating, collaborative, participative and inspiring management of group processes, know how for planning and managing learning processes, and knowledge about modern approaches and concepts of learning. With this toolbox we aim to promote this ideas with a strong emphasis on democracy and citizenship as integral elements of innovative educational reform and of a human-centered transformative pedagogy.

Democracy- and rights-based education in the digital age means empowering learners to exercise and defend their rights and responsibilities, and to understand change and participate in discourse and decision-making. To this end, we want to broaden the focus from digital learning to a holistic pedagogy of the digital: Learning with, for and about the digital transformation.

Digitalisation

Toward a competence-centered way of learning

Facilitation creates and guides through a process for individuals to form knowledge and skills in a self-directed way, according to their specific needs. Facilitators focus on an individual’s pre-existing knowledge, skills, and potential and help to activate it by...

Building skills in planning and moderating group processes.
Connecting experience in a seminar or classroom with, life experiences, and knowledge in the most useful way.
Developing an authentic facilitative attitude and following it in real life situations
Applying modern methods and methodological experience from diverse fields of education

What Competency-based learning is...

Steps toward action: Education for self-responsible intitiative

Encouraging learners to overtake initiative, to put ideas into practice, or to act successfully in complex situations emphasizes on the active components of learning: discovery, reflective observation, trial and error, and growing with challenges or collaboration. For an active pedagogy - for instance, inspired by methods and experience from fields such like citizenship education, entrepreneurship education, project management, or design thinking.

Training of facilitators on how to empower individuals for self-responsible initiative
Delivering inspirational, motivational and empowering trainings for different target groups in the context of lifelong learning

Innovative learning spaces

Emphasis put on the active components of learning encourages learners to overtake initiative, to put ideas into practice, or to act successfully in complex situations. Holistic learning spaces offer possibilities for discovery, reflective observation, trial and error, and growing with challenges or collaboration. Towards learning opportunities in which learners may experience, reflect on, and develop their existing skills and resources.

Designing experiential, inspirational and participatory programs
Cooperating between formal-, non-formal and informal sources of learning
Connecting learning and practice in society and work
Including new techniques recognizing the dynamical and process nature of learning

Empowering project teams and groups

Facilitation as a competence is a leadership factor. Moderating processes, a constructive, solution-oriented focus and managing social diverse teams or groups become more and more crucial for successful operations. We are promoting and advocating for:

Moderating groups and project processes in a creative, resource- and need-centered way
Inspiring, solution-orientated and participatory leadership
Unleashing the potential of social diversity in teams, organizations or educational programmes
Using the potential of a process for sustainable learning, especially by recognising and integrating mentoring, coaching or similar accompanying forms of education and learning.

Sharing and Commoning

Competendo is an Open Educational Resource for reasons. Creative Commons is not only a technical and legal concept, it is also an attitude. On the one side it is contributing to a free and open knowledge society, on the other hand Creative Commons are a self-service-shop with knowledge that would otherwise have a marketable price. But when the price is not expressing the value - what then? And who? Some words about ethics of sharing ethics in the digital age.

Creative Commons - Why and How

Competendo's Development

2019-2022 Digitalisation and App

Since the digitalisation of our society is becoming more and more also an explicit topic of Education for Democratic Citizenship the editors decided to extend the digital toolbox. The partnership with the DIGIT-AL project resulted in many new articles, a Competendo app and a new handbook Learning the Digital.

2021/22: The printed Learning the Digital. It continues the series of handbooks for facilitators.
2021: Relaunch, Competendo got an app and significant expansion of content in the digitalisation chapter.
EAEA's Grundtvig Award 2021 for the project DIGIT-AL in the category transnational.
2020: Experts meeting between the DIGIT-AL project and the European Economic and Social Committee
2019: Concept workshop and partner meeting in Riga

2018-2019 From Erasmus+ to Europe

After the Erasmus + project phase, the European network DARE joined as a partner and new coordinator. Slight improvements for the usability of Competendo were implemented and new content with a focus on Education for Democratic Citizenship/Human Rights Education found its way into the platform. Competendo and its community is involved in different European projects aiming to promote lifelong learning, with an emphasis on key competences and on the empowerment of learners for their democratic involvement in society.

DARE and Competendo
Competendo at the First European Education Summit
Petra Kammereverts MEP with Creativity Handbook
Policy Recommendations 2018

2017-2018 Creativity

How can we grasp creativity? How could facilitators understand and support creative processes? These questions guided MitOst and Ideas Factory during the development of the Creativity Handbook. With the release the initial project phase was successfully closed during our partner meeting in Sofia.

International Partner Meeting 2018 hosted by Ideas Factory in Sofia
Handbook #4: Creativity Handbook - Building Connections, drawing inspiration and exploring opportunities
Competendo Conference 2017 - Developing democratic and diversity-conscious societies through education
Competendo Conference 2017 - taking place in Slubice (Poland) at October 6th, 2017
Competendo Conference 2017 - and International Partner Meeting in Slubice/Frankfurt

2016-2017 Global, European and International Dimensions of Learning

Südwind is the largest organization in Austria promoting the idea of Global Learning in all of its facets and was coordinating the work on our third handbook The Everyday Beyond.

Handbook #3: The everyday beyond - European, international and global dimensions of learning processes.
Exchanging on COMPETENDO's approach and Open Educational Resources with experts working in Asia
International Partner Meeting Munich 2017 hosted by Working Between Cultures
International Partner Meeting Munich 2017: Outlook on future developments of the COMPETENDO collaboration
Competendo Editors' Meeting 2017 in Berlin: Discussing the priorities for the year
Competendo Editors' Meeting 2017 in Berlin, hosted by MitOst in January 2017

2016 Launch of Holistic Learning

Holistic Learning is describing our idea of facilitation. Although active in different educational fields, all involved organizations share the vision of rich and holistic learning processes, co-created by the learners and aiming to give meaning to words like empowerment, participation, and creativity. Coordinated by Working Between Cultures.

Handbook #2: Holistic learning - Planning experiential, inspirational and participatory learning processes
Handbook #2: Holistic learning - Planning experiential, inspirational and participatory learning processes
International Partner Meeting in Vienna, hosted by Südwind in October 2016
International Partner Meeting in Vienna and presentation of Competendo at FH St. Pölten

2015-2016 First Steps toward Action

Five organizations active in citizenship education created Competendo in 2015 in an Erasmus + Strategic Partnership project, coordinated by MitOst association (Unleashing Youth Initiative and Involvement Through Empowerment with Key Competencies - Developing Tools and Disseminating Best Practice- 2015-2-DE04-KA205-012710). They were motivated by their facilitation practices, inspired by the approaches of Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg, a program of Robert Bosch Stiftung. MitOst (coordinator, DE), Ideas Factory (BG), SKORO (PL), Südwind (AT) and Working Between Cultures (DE) built the online platform between 2015 and 2018 in cooperation with facilitators, educators, and experts from around Europe. Complementary to the platform and under the lead of SKORO, the first handbook was created, Steps toward action.

The first copy of #1 "Steps toward action"
The delivery of #1 "Steps toward action"
Working on the first publication at IF's office in Sofia 2016
International Partner Meeting Warsaw 2016
International Partner Meeting Warsaw 2016
Conceptual work on Competendo's design 2015
The beginnings of Competendo 2015
Kick Off: International Partner Meeting Berlin 2015

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Produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of the implementing partner organisations and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union.

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