Experience knowledge for initiatives
Experience for Initiatives (EFI) was the name of a model program to attract and qualify people with experience in life and work for self-chosen and self-designed civic engagement in the post-professional period. The training is based on a nationwide curriculum. Those who have completed the qualification receive the “ senior trainer in ” certificate . Often they also refer to themselves as "EFIs". senior trainer inside support existing groups in the voluntary commitment and initiate new projects or groups that socially committed to self-determined goals.
The federal model program 2002–2006
The first senior coach inside were trained "Experience for Initiatives" under the federal model program, which was funded from 2002 to 2006 by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in cooperation with ten provinces and free associations and clubs. During this period, 942 older people were prepared for their voluntary work by various educational institutions. Most of the participants were between 55 and 70 years old, women and men in roughly equal proportions, many with an above-average level of education compared to others in the age group. Over 80% of the course participants then developed their own civic engagement project. Accompanying the senior coach interior was taken over by regional contact points (agencies for civic engagement). These were usually established volunteer agencies, senior citizens offices or self-help contact points.
The federal states involved in the federal model program were: Bavaria, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia.
The education concept
An educational concept was developed for the model program by a scientific commission headed by Detlef Knopf with the participation of educational institutions. Although the concepts differ slightly between the federal states, they are usually based on the core ideas of the federal model program. This primarily includes the idea of “rolemaking” (developing one's own role) as opposed to “roletaking” (assuming a given role). In the course of the educational program, the participants should be motivated to find and shape their own role in voluntary engagement on the basis of the experience they have acquired in their work and family. An underlying thought is that people can pass on experience-based knowledge to society or start over and give space to interests and skills that they could not pursue during their professional activity. Commitment should become a personal challenge for the volunteers.
The educational program is therefore about the activation of existing potentials and experiences, the support in the development and formulation of personal concerns ("concerns of the heart") and the transfer of personal motivation into concrete project ideas.
An essential feature of the educational program is the inspiration from creative approaches and methods, “ because innovation happens with ease and not, as we have usually learned, with great effort and effort. "
Further development of the program
In seven of the Federal Model Program "Experience for Initiatives" participating states is the qualification senior trainer inside continue to be offered in cooperation with educational institutions and additional regional contact points (Bavaria, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Schleswig-Holstein ). Parts of the conception of the model program have been incorporated into new funding programs, including a. into the model program “Cross-Generational Voluntary Services” or the project funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation “Shaping demographic change in communities - using the experience of the elderly”. In the course of the sustainability of the project, organizational structures have emerged. In cooperation with the volunteer agencies, senior competence teams and EFI state networks have already been created.
Federal Working Group EFI Germany e. V.
At the general meeting on March 11, 2010, the dissolution of the association "EFI Germany e.V." decided. Since any assets are to be used for tax-privileged purposes according to the association's statutes, the association has since been in liquidation; this has meanwhile been completed, the association has expired and also deleted from the association register.
The liquidators also attach importance to the fact that the Federal Working Group (BAG) of senior trainers is not a successor organization to EFI Deutschland e. V. is. The BAG is neither legally nor partially legally competent.
Federal working group senior trainer
Shortly after the resolution to dissolve the EFI Germany association, the BAG seniorTrainer was founded. It is the amalgamation of the state working group EFI / seniorTrainer, promotes networking among the states, wants to support developments in the states and give the civic engagement of senior trainers nationwide a higher priority. The aim is to secure and further develop from the federal model program and years of practical experience.
State working group EFI Bayern e. V.
On May 28, 2009 in Nuremberg 17 Bavarian founded senior trainers and senior coach the national working group EFI Bavaria.
The state working group EFI Bayern e. V. represents the interests of volunteer working Bavarian senior trainers and senior coach. The main objective is, on the one hand, to further develop the knowledge gained in the framework of the federal model project "Experience for Initiatives (EFI)" to promote civic engagement among older people and to expand the EFI concept across Bavaria and, on the other hand, to ensure networking and the exchange of experiences. This is also particularly against the background that experience-based knowledge is passed on to the younger ones. As part of qualification measures for civically committed older people, around 1,200 senior trainers in Bavaria have successfully completed further training since 2002.
The Bavarian State Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Integration founded the Seniorenakademie Bayern in summer 2014. This leads to the elderly from 2015 training senior trainers and senior coaches (as a basic course through). The state working group EFI Bayern e. V. is developing a model of advanced courses and will develop face-to-face events, blended learning and purely internet-based offers.
In parallel, an EFI knowledge exchange portal (WAP) was created. This is aimed at the senior trainer community. These are older women and men from very different professional and life contexts who voluntarily contribute their experience and their skills to society and want to pass them on to others.
This portal supports the activities of the senior trainers and their environment, such as B. Volunteers in the projects and institutions. The portal
- enables the exchange of knowledge about voluntary projects,
- supports the exchange of information and communication between already known but also unknown members,
- manages and maintains the resulting network of relationships between the members.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The EFI Board of Directors explains that the spelling takes getting used to: "The plural for female and male EFIs (the spelling is correct!) Is called senior trainers c) A man in the project is a senior trainer, several men are senior trainers d) A woman in the project is a senior trainer, several women are senior trainers "(spellings decided by the board of EFI Germany e.V. for all word combinations with senior ... for our common spelling maintenance)
- ↑ Dietrich Engels, Joachim Braun, Joachim Burmeister (ed.): Senior coach inside and senior expertise teams. Experience and commitment of older people in a new role of responsibility. Evaluation report on the federal model program “Experience for Initiatives” on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth. Cologne 2007.
- ↑ Gerrit Heetderks, Karin Nell: Experience for Initiatives (EFI): Further training concept of the Evangelical Adult Education Center ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (accessed: December 21, 2008)
- ↑ Ute Schünemann-Flake: Qualification offer by EEB and ZWAR. 2008. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed: December 21, 2008; PDF; 67 kB)
- ↑ Herbert Schmidt: Do not stay seated on your knowledge. Sharing knowledge helps many. Wuerzburg 2015
literature
- Heike Baier, Gerrit Heetderks, Karin Nell: empirical knowledge for initiatives in the church . Published by the Evangelical Working Group for Elderly Work in the EKD (EAFA), Hanover, 2006.
- Joachim Braun (Ed.): Guide for using the experience of older people as a senior trainer and in senior competence teams: Working aid for senior citizens' offices, volunteer agencies . Cologne, 2005.
- Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Ed.): Experience-based knowledge for initiatives (EFI) . Berlin 2002.
- Joachim Burmeister, Anne Heller, Ilona Stehr: Further training for older people for civic engagement as a senior trainer. A course concept for local networks . Cologne 2007 (ISAB series: Reports from Research and Practice No. 104).
- Wolfgang Rochna: Senior Competence Team WIR Arnsberg: A path with a goal. Insights-impressions-insights from 2002 to 2007. Arnsberg 2008 . Online as a pdf file: http://www.arnsberg.de/engagement/projekte/seniortrainer-dokumentation.pdf
- Joachim Burmeister, Ilona Stehr: senior trainers - advanced training - part A: manual for course leaders. Würzburg 2012 (EFI Bayern e.V.) To the manual
- Joachim Burmeister, Ilona Stehr: senior trainers - advanced training - part B: manual for the participants. Würzburg 2012 (EFI Bayern e.V.) To the manual
- Wolfgang Stodieck: senior trainers - advanced training - part C: manual for the contact points. Würzburg 2014 (EFI Bayern e.V.) To the manual