Informal education and training What do you want and need, and how can you organize this?

Session goals & outline To discuss the education and training needs of your organization To create a manifest on how your organization should handle the education and training. What is education and training? How can it be organized? (Dutch example) So what do you want? Brainstorm & discussion

What is education and training? “to train and educate the politicians of tomorrow” What is your current situation? What trainings are organized? Where are they organized? How many trainers do you have? What content are the trainings? Politiek/retoriek/organisatie/grondvesten

How can E&T be organized? Example from the Netherlands An education officer in the national board Assigns budgets, responsible for trainers, trainings and is a contact point for branches A ‘team academy’ works together with the officer to think up new trainings, and improve old ones A committee which is focused on four content-focused pillars. Some local officers E&T, but it’s an exception. Four types of trainings: organizational, political, rhetoric, and political foundation/philosophical. For every active member, there should be an adequate training. Biggest challenges: managing the network of trainers, creating enough demand for trainings, creating interesting content and keeping the content alive.

What do you want? Exercise: think up the education and training as you would want it in your organization. Split up in groups and: Think up what members should know and what skills they should have after they ‘leave’ your organization. Think up the topic and learning goals for a training for new members in a local branch Think up the topic and learning goals for a training for a newly elected board Think up the topic and learning goals for a training program for talented youth

Manifest and final discussion What are the most important learning goals for your members? What trainings do you want in your branch? What kind of education and training activities should your organization fund? How can you help building a trainers pool? How do you want the education and training organized and managed? Who should be responsible?