INFOSHEET Project “Improving Quality & Accessibility in In-Service Trainings for teachers” (IQAIST) General information and practical information regarding the training course International Training course “The Power of Non-Formal” New instruments and methods for a modern pedagogical approach Iași, Romania, 8th - 14th November 2015

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INFOSHEET
Project “Improving Quality & Accessibility in In-Service Trainings for teachers”
International Training course
“The Power of Non-Formal”
New instruments and methods for a modern pedagogical approach
Iași, Romania, 8th - 14th November 2015
PART I – General information
Arrival date: Sunday, 8th November 2015
Departure date: Saturday, 14th November 2015
1. Duration
The In-Service Training will last for 7 days (including travel days)
2. Language
English
3. Objectives
Thanks to this project the participants will have:
 growing competences in delivering educational products and information
(seminars, trainings, courses, workshops) through a better understanding of
Non-Formal Methods and instruments;
 knowledge on non-formal theory and practice for an efficient stimulation of
learning;
 growing awareness on non-formal importance approach for social-inclusion
of marginalized students, learners;
 growing skills and competences in using “non-formal methods” for a bigger
efficiency of knowledge accumulation.
Our participants will:
 Acquire knowledge and practical information about “Non-Formal Methods”;
 Improve their practical skills related to how, when, with who, to use non-
formal methods;
 Make contacts with individuals and organisations with similar experience
and exchange best practices
More information on our website: www.europanet.ro; or on our Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/europanet

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4. Methodology
Based on theory of Paulo Freire (dialogue, praxis and education) and practice of
Augusto Boal (“Forum Theatre”, “The Cop in the Head”; “The Rainbow of Desire”)
and John Bergman (“The right exercise for the right participant at the right time”),
our workshop is a wonderful time of discovering efficient ways through which any
information can be send it to students (learners) in a very simulative learning
process.
All our training is based on discovering the “Power of Non-formal Methods “but the
introduction will be structured for a better understanding of all non-formal
methods indicators.
Our work is an excited mixture of common and groups team work, interactive
exercises, presentations, brainstorming sessions, case studies, etc.
The participants will also receive a workbook with session’s summaries and
descriptions of activities used. We will recommend them interesting literature for
further study.
5. Profile of participants
The participants selected for attending the international training course in Iasi,
Romania should have the following profiles:
 Be actively involved in their sending organization and motivated to be
involved in the training course
 Being able to disseminate the information regarding the project in their
schools, be ready to undertake follow up actions and act as multipliers of the
gained knowledge later on
 Be fully able to use English language with working proficiency
 Being able to attend the full training course duration
 Being prepared for the interim evaluations and one final evaluation at the
end of the course.
6. Preparation
Dear participants, we would like to hear more about you & your hopes/wishes for
this training. We will take your answers into consideration as we design our time
together. Please send your answers to the questions bellow to
neteuropa@ymail.com by 10th October 2015:
- Please send us a few sentences about you: what is the longing in your
life/work that calls you to this training? (Please also attach a small
photograph of yourself.)
- What would you need to happen at this training so that it would be an
excellent experience for you?

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Delegate 5 minutes presentations: One of the main goals of the course is to
connect among each other. In order to achieve this goal we kindly ask you to
prepare a brief 5 minutes presentation. Here are some guidelines that might help
you:
- Tell us about your organization
- Tell us about your work
- Mention some interesting projects you work on
- During the first day share with us your goals and objectives regarding this
course.
Because we will use different colours on different days, please be aware about the
“Rainbow Method”. A Rainbow has 7 colours: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue,
Indigo and Violet. You should have something Red with you on your arrival day,
something Orange in the second day, …. etc. finalizing your last day, your departure
day with something Violet. Can be everything, use your creativity and imagination…
and if you have questions do not hesitate to ask at neteuropa@ymail.com.
7. Hosting organization
EUROPANET Association is an NGO based in Iasi, organizing activities and projects
in the fields of education, management, entrepreneurship and European mobility.
We are organizing non-formal trainings and informal sessions, we develop new
curriculum‘s for our workshops and training on technically, artistically, community
development, leadership topics.
We are developing all our projects into an inter-institutional and an inter-
generational approach because we do believe that collaboration between people
with a different background is the key of a real success into community.
We are developing and implementing formal and non-formal education programs,
workshops for a growing communication of our local community and learners with
similar from Europe for a sustainable local, regional and European development.
We know from our trainings experience that non-formal education give resources
for an individual development, for a better personal and professional growing.
We promote Non-formal activities. Methods, exercises in all our projects and we are
developing new methods in Adult Learning New-Formal approach.
We do believe in „The Power of Non-Formal“.
Our trainers and experts are National trainers in Adult Education with an
experience of working into educational adult programmers for more than 15 years.

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PART II – Practical Information regarding the training course
1. Course Venue: Iași, Romania
Iași is the last “European frontier” in Europe, the second town in Romania with a
population of 450.000 citizens.
Iasi is a beautiful, modern town with a small but very well equipped airport.
Short movie about Iasi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zirt0bpzBlI
Our institutional details:
EUROPANET Association
32 Pantelimon Street, 5th floor, Postal code 700082, Iași, România
Phone: 0040727.850.691, Fax: 0040232.252.926
www.europanet.ro, neteuropa@ymail.com
https://www.facebook.com/europanet
Contact person for this training:
Cristina Victoria Chert
Programme Director
+40 727 850 691
neteuropa@ymail.com
2. Travel information and directions
Please, remember to keep all your travel tickets and invoices since all
documents will be needed for the reimbursement process!
All participants will be welcome by our team in Iasi airport or train station and they
will be transported directly to the accommodation place (in the town centre).
We will provide also transport back to airport and train station for departure.
We will provide more detailed information after the participants and hotel are
confirmed, but we work usually with centered Hotels as:
- http://www.hotelunirea.ro
- http://www.hotelmoldovaiasi.ro
In which our participants have a very divers breakfast, a possibility to be in the
center and also a possibility to have access to sport facilities (both hotels have very
nice swimming pools).
Once you are in our town we will have a first session with instruction about how
you can access public transportation in our area and in the same time how cheap is
to take a taxi in 3 or 4 people (cheaper than a local tram).

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3. Accommodation
You will be accommodated in one of those hotels:
- http://www.hotelunirea.ro
- http://www.hotelmoldovaiasi.ro, our booking will be sending it to you via
email.
EUROPANET Association will make the booking for your stay during the training
course.
For logistical reasons, our training room will be located or in your hotel or very
close to your accommodation.
Each hotel has free wireless Internet access, swimming pool, very nice restaurants
and is surrounded with very nice Café-s.
4. Meals
You will be provided with 3 daily meals, which will be taken in the restaurant of the
hotel as well as in other restaurants around the city. Also EUROPANET Association
is going to ensure 2 coffee breaks (in the morning and in the afternoon) during your
stay. We kindly ask you to specify any specialities in your food diet prior to the
course.
5. Transportations around the city
Outside town transportations should be managed on your own. Our volunteers will
be to your disposition for counselling you when you want to travel around our town.
Also, make sure that your flights are scheduled in a way to be able to reach your
travel timetables.
6. Top sights
In case if you have some free time, you could do some sightseeing. More
information on the official tourism website: http://turism-iasi.ro/
Please read in advance the link above and make your own discoveries in our town.
We are pretty sure that after 5 days into our town you will be able to teach us many,
many new things about our own town. Like Shakespeare said: “I do not know
how……but all the time it’s happening…it’s a mystery”
7. Insurance and emergency numbers
When you book and buy your international travel tickets please make sure to buy
also a health insurance for all days that you will be here in Romania. It’s not an
expensive insurance and at your arrival we will reimburse the costs. For this issue,
we can have a contact through email or phone.
In case of need hereby you can find the emergency number below:
- European emergency number: 112

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In case if you have questions you can contact us directly and we will be happy to
help you if needed:
Trainers and course responsible
Cristina Victoria Chert
Programme Director
(0040) 727 850 691
chert_cristina@yahoo.com
Alina Scanteie
Media Officer
(0040) 723 690 817
neteuropa@ymail.com
8. Do not forget:
 ID card or Passport
 Visa (if required)
 Airplane ticket (and your boarding passes)
 Laptop (optional)
 Delegate Presentation (Documentation about your organization/institution)
 Travel insurance
 European health card (if you have this from your national legislation)
 Dictionary (optional)
 Enjoy yourself!
 Your smile 
PART III – Agendai
Day Date Programme of learning activities
Arrival
8.11.2015
“RED day of
training”
Welcome participants (Arrival in Iași airport or Iași train station)
Welcome supper (first informal meeting with trainers, staff
EUROPANET)
1
9.11.2015
“ORANGE day of
training”
ORANGE Atelier
Introduction knowing each other exercise; introducing trainers,
participants; project timetable, daily plan activities; EUROPANET
Association
Initial evaluation of participants (questionnaire on adult Learning
process, theory of non-formal methods, knowledge on using non-formal
exercises)
Non-formal exercises for inside (Theory)
Practicing inside non-formal exercises
„Treasure Hunt“: discovering our town through a non-formal method.
Evaluation of the day
2 10.11.2015
“YELLOW day of
training”
Yellow Atelier
Summarize of workshop first day
Working on small groups: inside exercises adapted for different
categories of students (learners with different type of disabilities, needs
etc.)

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Theory on Banking Education (Pablo Freire)
Practicing different methods in making efficient the learning process
(information spread out to learners) through different non-formal
exercises
Group discussion on individual perceptions
Evaluation of workshop day
3 11.11.2015
“GREEN day of
training“
GREEN Atelier
Summarize of workshop second day
Non-formal exercises for outside (Theory) and the safety of learners
Working on small groups group: outside exercises adapted for different
categories of adults (persons with different type disabilities, elderly
learners, young people learners etc.)
Theory on “The right exercise for the right learner at the right time”
Augusto Boal (Forum Theatre method), John Bergman, Saul Hewis
theory and approaches
Practicing in small groups selection of exercises for a special target
group, for a special part of day, for a special piece of informal delivery
Working on groups: Forum Theatre method
Cultural Visit: Social Cultural institutions in Iași
Evaluation of the workshop day
4 12.11.2015
“BLUE day of
training”
BLUE Atelier
Summarize of workshop third day
Theory on “Warm up/Low Intensity/High Intensity/Calming & cooling
(closure) exercises” (John Bergman theory)
Practicing the same exercise on different levels of intensity
Theory about: Drama in Education/ Education through Drama/ Drama
Therapy and Drama Mediation (Similarities and differences)
Evaluation of the workshop day
5 13.11.2015
“INDIGO day of
training”
INDIGO Atelier
Summarize of workshop fourth day
Theory on Non-formal creativity power
Augusto Boal and Creative non-formal methods: “Forum Theatre”
(Theatre of Oppressed); “The Cop in the Head”; “The rainbow of desire”
Implication of non-formal methods in stimulating education process for
involving vulnerable students
“Non-formal back to original place” – Cultural Visit
Evaluation of the workshop day
Departure
14.11.2015
“PURPLE day of
training”
PURPLE Day
Departure day of participants (Iași airport or Iași train station)
i Altogether 28 working hours not including breaks and social/cultural program + 1 technical visit + 1 afternoon/morning free.
Trip or special visit is not mandatory, but can be arranged with additional price.