With the help of our project, we wanted to develop a support material and curriculum for family pastoral animators who volunteer to support engaged couples, married couples, families in different life situations, and organize various family pastoral events (e.g. engaged education, spiritual days, etc.) and trainings for them. We wished to create a 6-chapter, 6-topic training curriculum for 6 training days for family pastoral animators. We planned a pilot training to test the curriculum in the two partner countries. We wanted to make the curriculum developed in the project widely available to all interested parties by public websites of our institutions (rozsafuzerkiralyneja.hu and csalad.ro) and organizing dissemination events.
The Family Pastoral Office of the Gyulafehérvár Diocese and the ’Rózsafüzér Királynéja’ Parish in Budapest wished to develop the training curriculum for family pastoral animators within the framework of international cooperation (in the form of 6 topics, 6 chapters-curriculum, 6 training days) and to test it in both countries within the framework of a pilot training. In this way, we have developed a training curriculum for adult learning needs that has not yet been available in either country and we are enabling people to participate in adult learning activies that have not been available for them until now, although many have already been volunteering in this service (family pastoral animators). Since the activities of family pastoral animators trained through the training curriculum are aimed at supporting married couples and families of any social status, age and life condition, as well as organizing family pastoral events and trainings, the presence of qualified family pastoral animators in local society will contribute to the well-being of married couples, families and the health of society.