Eduardo Figueira and Eileen Luebcke presented the framework and feedback from the focus groups.

Recordings of all session and conference materials can be found here:

http://www.trainersineurope.org/conference/exhibition/

Äli reported the outcome of two stakeholder interviews gathered in the feedback process for our framework. We came across two fundamentally opposite impressions: One interviewee reported that the framework is too old fashioned because it puts an emphasize on the individual trainer instead on the team or organisational level. The focus group interviewed found the TTplus framework highly innovative with regards to the recommendation of electronic tools.

We discussed this high variation in the perception of the framework and came to the following conclusion: The first opinion was expressed by a member of a company which works with freelance trainers as well as with employed trainers. This company does not care about the professional development of their freelance trainer but focus on the employed trainer which our interview partner perceived as a matter to be addressed on team or organisational level. Since the TTplus frameworks tries to include any kind of trainer, the individual level for a professional development has been integrated to include freelance trainers.

We want to emphasize that the TTplus framework can be contextualized and adapted to a certain organisational background. With regard to the above mentioned example one might want to stress the team level as well as the organisational level in their importance for the professional development of trainers. Nevertheless it should be clear that the TTplus team has designed the TTplus framework as a holistic one. We have created commitments for individual level, team level, organisational level as well as stakeholder level like governmental bodies. We believe that the professional development of trainers should be (and can become) a relevant topic on each of these levels and only through affords at every level the European trainers will become well-equipped and prepared for the current and future challenges to the European workforce.

The TTplus accreditation document can be downloaded as a document from the page “TTplus framework”.

The structure of the different events has been the following one:

1. Presentation of the linkages between knowledge and work and pointing out the importance of trainers in this procedure.
2.  Analysing the process why it is happening
3. Trainers as the main focus to solve this problem
4. TTplus project as one solution towards this problem

These dissemination events have been a big success. The strategy to contextualize the TTplus project strongly and to put a big emphasis on the problem that has led to it,  created a lot of interest in the topic and in our project.  Nikitas, an experienced researcher for years, got the impression that those more general  dissemination events are more  successful than events that focus on the specific results of a single project. It supports the linkages between TTplus project and other projects in this area thus creating a kind of “connectivity dissemination” instead of a simple “result-orientated dissemination”.

http://fm-openlearn.open.ac.uk/fm/e7fa65-3182

The principle document is now uploaded to the website, you can find it under the webpage “TTplus framework”. The document describes the main principles which underly the framework.
The accreditation document is currently undergoing a final review and will be uploaded soon.

Meeting: http://fm-openlearn.open.ac.uk/fm/bd99c1-2472