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<div class=teaser-text>[[File:Competendo-training.png|  right | 120px]]The success of competency-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. As well in businesses and NGOs these facilitation competencies are required for successful teamwork, inspiring leadership or developing the potential of the involved people. The Competendo team is offering tailor-made concepts for facilitators, educational institutions, companies, or teams. </div>
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<div class=teaser-text>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.</div>
  
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===A holistic pedagogy of 'the digital' - for all===
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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.
  
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==Toward a competency-centered way of teaching==
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===Toward a competence-centered way of learning===
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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. Our facilitator-education helps experts in non-formal education and teachers in
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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.  
 
* 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.  
 
* 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
 
* Developing an authentic facilitative attitude and following it in real life situations
 
* Applying modern methods and methodological experience from diverse fields of education
 
* Applying modern methods and methodological experience from diverse fields of education
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*[[What Competency-based learning is...]]
 
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===Steps toward action: Education for self-responsible intitiative===
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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.
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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. Our trainings merge methods and include 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
 
* Training of facilitators on how to empower individuals for self-responsible initiative
* Delivering inspirational, motivational and empowering trainings for your target groups
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* Delivering inspirational, motivational and empowering trainings for different target groups in the context of lifelong learning
 
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===Innovative learning spaces===
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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.  
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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. Our trainings and advice helps facilitators and educational organizations to shape learning opportunities in which learners may experience, reflect on, and develop their existing skills and resources.  
 
  
 
* Designing experiential, inspirational and participatory programs  
 
* Designing experiential, inspirational and participatory programs  
 
* Cooperating between formal-, non-formal and informal sources of learning
 
* Cooperating between formal-, non-formal and informal sources of learning
 
* Connecting learning and practice in society and work  
 
* Connecting learning and practice in society and work  
* Including new techniques recognizing the dynamical and process nature of learning, such as coaching or mentoring
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* Including new techniques recognizing the dynamical and process nature of learning
 
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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:
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* Moderating groups and project processes in a creative, resource- and need-centered way
Facilitation as a competency 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 focusing in our trainings for staff, decision-makers or teams on these aspects:
 
* Moderating groups and project processes
 
 
* Inspiring, solution-orientated and participatory leadership
 
* Inspiring, solution-orientated and participatory leadership
* Unleashing the potential of social diversity in your team, organization or business
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* Unleashing the potential of social diversity in teams, organizations or educational programmes
* Mentoring and accompanying the development of key competencies
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* Using the potential of a process for sustainable learning, especially by recognising and integrating mentoring, coaching or similar accompanying forms of education and learning.
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===Sharing and Commoning===
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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.
  
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==Competendo's Development==
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===2019-2022 Digitalisation and App ===
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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 [https://dttools.eu DIGIT-AL project] resulted in many new articles, a [[Competendo App | Competendo app]] and a new handbook [[Learning the Digital]].
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===2018-2019 From Erasmus+ to Europe===
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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.
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File:Competendo-edusummit.jpg  | alt="Education Summit 2018" |Competendo at the First European Education Summit
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File:Competendokammereverts2.jpg | alt="Petra Kammereverts MEP" |Petra Kammereverts MEP with Creativity Handbook
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===2017-2018 Creativity===
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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.
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File:Competendoipmsofia2018-2.jpg | alt="Handbook #4:Creativity Handbook" |Handbook #4: Creativity Handbook - Building Connections, drawing inspiration and exploring opportunities
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File:Cc2017-1.jpg | alt="Competendo Conference 2017" |Competendo Conference 2017 - Developing democratic and diversity-conscious societies through education
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File:Cc2017-2.jpg | alt="Competendo Conference 2017" |Competendo Conference 2017 - taking place in Slubice (Poland) at October 6th, 2017
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===2016-2017 Global, European and International Dimensions of Learning===
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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]].
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File:Pmmunich-future.jpg | alt="International Partner Meeting Munich 2017 hosted by Working Between Cultures" |International Partner Meeting Munich 2017: Outlook on future developments of the COMPETENDO collaboration
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File:Competendomeeting2017.jpg | alt="Competendo Editors' Meeting 2017 hosted in Berlin" |Competendo Editors' Meeting 2017 in Berlin: Discussing the priorities for the year
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[[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.
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===2015-2016 First Steps toward Action===
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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]].
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Latest revision as of 15:48, 15 June 2023

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.

A holistic pedagogy of 'the digital' - for all

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.

Toward a competence-centered way of learning

Teaching-facilitating.png

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

Steps toward action: Education for self-responsible intitiative

Motivation.png

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.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.


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