JUMP! is a proposal aimed at building trust and upgrading competence for the trainers and training centres in ecological building. Since 2002, several European projects have worked towards providing vocational development and mobility opportunities for eco-building learners, trainers and crafts people. With growing demand for natural building technologies, there is a need for skilled craftspeople, short and long certified training offers and for specialised trainers. But the consortium identified 3 major challenges: training centres and specialised ecological building trainers need: - To strengthen their identity, - To be introduced to the resources and European level networking, - To have better access to the resources of the training and assessment offer. Competence already exists in our different networks, cooperation allows good practice to spread. Training for trainers and dissemination are the levers to remove those blocs. First, a new common core curriculum, units of learning outcomes and tools for trainers will be enhanced and tested. The new tools will be an innovative process to create a paradigm shift. As Einstein stated hundred years ago: “the significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Sustainable building cannot only be achieved by technology but also has non-technical and non-material aspects. We believe that change is a major motivator driving designers, builders and customers of eco-construction which should be explicitly included in the learning process. This will empower and give strong identity to the whole European eco-construction network. Access to new and existing resources will be improved by the creation of a new European online portal. It will map and connect the existing European and national websites showing the available tools, including the trainer training modules developed by the JUMP! Project. A dynamic agenda of training and assessment offers, and of learning and teaching tools for natural building materials. The federation Ecoconstruire has invited national associations (RFCP and AsTerre – France ; ASBN – Austria ; ArTUR – Slovakia ; EBUKI - UK and Ireland ; BiWeNa – Germany) that work with craftspeople who act as vocational trainers offering comprehensive training in eco-construction in their country. Those organisations have developed European competence standards and experienced mobilities. Another partner, Johannesdalsinitiativet – Sweden, has been chosen for the unique elements and innovative activities they developed with their work on people's awareness of values other than materialism: change and trust. Each country will host at least one of the seven international meetings, organise dissemination events and send at least 2 trainers to the training tests. A team of 3 people (1 from the coordinator and 2 from other countries) will lead and be responsible for the final production for each of the 3 main outputs (1/ Common core curriculum, 2/ Units of learning outcomes and tools, 3/ New common European online portal). Each output has preliminary steps (sub-products) with a leader who sub-divides the 4 stages: analysis, development, validation and production. At each level partners will work in constant collaboration and feedback loop with Johannesdalsinitiativet – Sweden, to encourage innovative teaching practices. The impact envisaged and potential longer-term benefits are: - To give eco-construction training centres a basis for selection, training and induction of their teaching staff - To facilitate introducing eco-building when eco-building trainers or training centres co-operate with conventional training providers - To consolidate confidence among MoU signatories of the earth and straw bale networks and encourage transnational mobility of learners and trainers. - To support ongoing national certification strategies for ecological building techniques - To provide our network with a shared culture of pedagogical tools and practices - To raise awareness about European added value and support the trainers to implement European competence standards and use the existing resources. - To increase transferability between our network organisations to go beyond the project consortium, to any educator keen to learn about eco-construction or ECVET and mobility, any educator keen to support adults to build trust through play and creative activities in order to contribute to a positive sustainable development - To provide access to essential information around the existing tools - To facilitate the learners research on courses that suit their learning pathways - To allow the training providers and umbrella organisations to respond to the learners request in an efficient way - To develop collaboration between training centres - To increase training offers for short and long certified trainings in eco-building
Since 2002, several European projects have worked towards providing vocational development and mobility opportunities for eco-building learners, trainers and crafts people. With growing demand for natural building technologies, there is a need for skilled craftspeople, short and long certified training offers and for specialised trainers. The consortium identified 3 major challenges for training centres and specialised ecological building trainers need: - To strengthen a common identity, - To be introduced to the resources and European level networking, - To develop their confidence and skills through cooperation that allows good practices to spread. The federation Ecoconstruire has invited national associations (RFCP and AsTerre – France ; ASBN – Austria ; ArTUR – Slovakia ; EBUKI - UK and Ireland ; BiWeNa – Germany) that work with craftspeople who act as vocational trainers offering comprehensive training in eco-construction in their country. Those organisations have developed European competence standards and experienced mobilities. Another partner, Johannesdalsinitiativet – Sweden, has been chosen for the unique elements and innovative activities they developed with their work on people's awareness of values other than materialism: change, play and trust Change is a major motivator driving designers, builders and customers of eco-construction which should be explicitly included in the learning process, giving a strong identity to the whole European eco-construction network. Each country hosted a transnational meeting with a coordination day and then workshops (6 meetings with 31 people), organized dissemination events (9 - with a total of 352 participants from outside the consortium) and sent trainers to test training (12 trainers-trainees and 15 trainers). 15 redaction groups were active through more than 120 online meetings and 36 monthly coordination meetings. We created a training for trainers and produced more than we promised: - we wanted to create 4 units but finally 8 units of learning outcomes have been finalized as the basis of the competence and training standard for trainers at level 5 - the toolbox originally announced with 6 media (3 session plans and 3 teaching materials) has been expanded to 45 session plans, 1 film, powerpoint presentation and more than 50 teaching materials. Those tools have been improved or created, and tested in an innovative, participative and experiential process to create a paradigm shift that takes into account non-technical and non-material aspects, consciousness and change. - the charter we were to create was recomposed into a manifesto and a MoU. - a website to disseminate all the results of the project: www.trainingforchange.eu/ The impact and longer-term benefits are: - To give eco-construction training centres a basis for selection, training and induction of their teaching staff - To facilitate introducing eco-building when eco-building trainers or training centres co-operate with conventional training providers - To consolidate confidence and a MoU as basis for concerted national and European development of our networks and for transnational mobility of learners and trainers. - To support ongoing national certification strategies for ecological building techniques - To provide our network with a shared culture of pedagogical tools and practices - To raise awareness about European cooperation - To add value and support the implementation of existing resources. - To enable our organizations to reach audiences further away from the ecologist, as educators eager to learn more about eco-construction, ECVET and mobility and to help adults develop their confidence through play and creative activities in order to contribute to a positive social change. - To enable training providers and funders to respond effectively to learners' demand for training in sustainable development - to increase the offer of certified short and long training in eco-construction at levels 3 and 4. - More collaboration between partner organisations.