Community Radio organisations’ ethos is to provide all citizens with the right to operate management, programming and employment practices which oppose discriminations, and one of the manners they do so is by providing training to individuals and community organisations to secure the right to communicate of minority and marginalised groups while promoting and protecting cultural and linguistic diversity. This project is complementary to the project Specific Methodologies And Resources for Radio Trainers (SMART), which was developed under the Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation programme. The product was an online tool, the SMART on-line toolkit http://smart.radiotraining.eu/, which facilitates the design of radio training workshops according to trainers’ needs and the needs of their trainees. The on-line tool also provides resources to prepare and deliver training to learners with learning difficulties, vision impaired/blind trainees and Migrant Women. This project will develop Train the Trainer syllabus focused on delivering training using the on-line tool, so trainers will learn how to use the tool as well as the methodologies and the activities included in it. The innovative aspect of the proposal is the creation of three train the trainers’ syllabus that aside from introducing the SMART on-line tool to radio trainers, would also insert training elements that would be applicable to specific groups, such as migrant women, vision impaired/blind learners and trainees with learning difficulties. This would be the first European harmonised training for media trainers looking at skills and methods to deliver training to these three groups. The syllabus of these workshops will be built around existing materials in the on-line tool, partners training experience, but most importantly on Needs Analysis processes with learner trainers, which will measure: • Training resources of learner trainer and their organisation to deliver the planned curriculum using the methodologies being transferred. • The knowledge and experience of learner trainer and their organisation on methodologies and resources required to respond to the diverse needs associated with community radio training • The knowledge and experience of learner trainer and their organisation on methodologies and resources required to respond to the diverse needs associated with community radio training for specific training groups. We have planned Blended Mobility Training events that would offer a practical approach to the introduction of the SMART on-line tool to specific areas of training (from the Know-how to use it to the application of the methodologies and implementation of the activities) to allow for learners to gain experience in the use of the resources available. The training will also allow for learner trainers to consider the possibilities of adaptation of methodologies, resources and activities or exercises they are already using in the training workshops to the needs of the three specific target groups for the SMART on-line tool (vision impaired/blind, migrant women and learning difficulties trainees). Throughout the Blended Training sessions we will use the method critique to feedback, evaluate and adapt the methodologies and resources to the needs of learner trainers. The second day of the Blended Training will focus on feedback and evaluation methodologies and resources. These will be put into practice during the rest of the days of the Blended training event, that would consist on mock training using methodologies and activities of the SMART on-line tool, and exploring the adaptation of activities and methodologies already in used by learner trainers but inadequate to the needs of some learners. The project includes three multiplier events to take place in parallel with the first day of the TTL Blended Mobility Train the Trainer activities. This would allow for the presentation of the on-line tool, its functionality and resources to national organisations in Hungary, Spain and Germany. During the multiplier event, the host partner will become also a training resource at national level for further dissemination of the tool and the train the trainer syllabus for general and specific target groups (Vision Impaired/blind, Migrant Women and learning difficulties learners). We believe that this project will improve trainers' mobility across European countries but also across sectors, while increasing the capacity and training possibilities of their organisations. The transfer of a more formalised and measurable training curriculum and learning outcomes, as well as feedback and evaluation tools for trainers, will facilitate efficient and high quality training delivery.
The project focused on the development of curricula for the delivery of Learner Centered Training principles on which the SMART online tool is based. While the online tool with methods, exercises and materials for radio and media training is aimed at trainers, the results of SMART Trainers with its curricula, measurement methods for learning outcomes and the certificate are aimed at trainers of media and radio trainers. SMART Trainers has been able to implement the goals set in the application. By researching and assembling good and best practice methods for the training, a 3-day course has been created, which, however, can be divided into different segments and adapted to very different time frames, depending on the structure and layout of the training for the later users. In a blended mobility training, this curriculum could be tested in practice and evaluated with the help of the participants. After the project could no longer be carried out in the originally planned form due to the Covid pandemic, we adapted Outcome1 so that in addition to the syllabus for 3-day courses, there is another syllabus for training in an online course. This syllabus was implemented and evaluated in a blended mobility training in June 2021. For this purpose, the trainers who gave the course were asked to take minutes and the participants in the course used the methods of the assessment tool, which were used to evaluate not only their learning success but also to reflect on the course. At the end of the blended mobility training there was an extensive reflection session with the participation of all participants. 9 trainees participated in the first blended mobility training. The second blended mobility training had 8 participants. The assessment tool created in advance was also tested at both training sessions. With five different methods, it makes it possible to identify the learning success of the Train the Trainer graduates. The assessment tool for the participants in the courses consists of five elements - The self-assessment - The "one-minute paper" - The learning diary - The workshop presentation - The final discussion with feedback. It would be contradictory to SMART if we developed a test procedure that can be "passed or failed". Any SMART assessment tool relies on feedback and a willingness to listen, learn and respond to needs. SMART Trainers is given added value, added value for graduates and added sustainability through the certificate that can be awarded by the two European associations AMARC Europe and CMFE. Organisations and institutions of the community media or media education institutions with a concept that adopts the SMART principles of Learner Centered Training in its trainer training with the application of the curricula and SMART methods can obtain the possibility of awarding SMART Trainers Certificates. The purpose and possibilities of certification in the community sector have been intensively discussed in the project partnership. In addition, we have investigated different certification systems and procedures. The result is the project's SMART Training Certificate. The two curricula, the assessment tool and the certification are published, downloadable and printable on the smart.radiotraining.eu project homepage. Curricula, materials and the assessment tool are free and available in English, French, German, Spanish, Hungarian and Basque.