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COMET Training Courses - Guiding Principles
COMET Training Courses - Guiding Principles
1I Background information
The COMETS training courses are dedicated to so-called ‘advanced trainers’, meaning that trainers-
learners have the capacity to direct their own learning and in particular to self-assess their
competences in this activity with specific regard to a given competence area.
Due to the need to lay the foundations of the training courses developed in the context of COMETS,
for the team and the organisers of the very first course – COMETS ICC – it was necessary to elaborate
a series of ‘guiding principles’. Since then, they serve as a basis for all COMETS courses – based on a
holistic understanding of trainers in nowadays international/European training contexts. Here is the
list of those principles (further elaborated under point 2).
Most of these principles are primarily meant for the team to keep in mind when elaborating their
course (vision, intentions, approach, methodology, content, etc.). However, at the same time, they
are also principles that trainers-learners ought to be aware of in order to understand the learning
context that is intended and to be able to relate to it, to engage in it. Thus, these principles inform
the design process of COMETS training courses as well as become an integral part of the learning
environment, culture and atmosphere, during the courses.
These guiding principles are also based on the principles of non-formal learning in training
(agreements on which the organisation of non‐formal learning is based: a focus on the learner and
their development; transparency; confidentiality; a voluntary nature; participation; ownership; and
democratic values)1.
1
Source: Glossary Set of competences for trainers working at international level, SALTO Training and
Cooperation Resource Centre. https://www.salto-youth.net/rc/training-and-
cooperation/europeantotstrategy/trainercompetences/
2I Guiding principles explored