We wanted to implement a skills development policy for the evolution of our team's expertise in our field of action towards inclusive science education, including: - The professional development of trainers and mediators, already experts in the field of scientific and technical mediation, to acquire skills in the field of social inclusion. - Training in terms of methodologies such as Living Labs and Open Schooling for a more relevant science education to face the new challenges of society. - Periods of observation in a work situation, to appropriate working methods and practices that are particularly interesting for the evolution of our structure in the sense detailed above.
For more than 15 years, TRACES has been active in adult education in the fields of scientific and technical mediation and education, and science-society links. In recent years, TRACES has refocused its offer by integrating the dimensions of social inclusion, digital training -and more recently, Open Schooling and Living labs. These repositionings are the consequence of an analysis of existing needs in society (e.g., the role of access to knowledge in the amplification of inequalities or the growing commitments of young people in the search for solutions to global problems), and has been nurtured through a series of collaborations and projects supported by the EU with European partners. To support this change, TRACES has set up a skills development and training follow-up plan for staff members, which involves training with European organizations, and observation periods with European partners active in new domains. This is why TRACES has renewed its application for these mobilities, which in the past have proven to be very useful for the development of new projects and for the professional grow of the team.