Competendo

2021

Competendo is an open source toolbox for facilitators active in civic initiatives. This rich website offers a useful set of resources to develop a cultural leadership skill-set, improving the capacities of facilitating actions within the organisations and with the audience. Developed by DARE, Ideas Factory, MitOst, SKORO, Südwind, and Working Between Cultures, Competendo is committed to developing better learning spaces for civic competences and empowerment. The toolbox offers and shares experience, methods and inspiration for competency based learning in communities, schools, organisations, and non-formal groups or institutions. It offers concepts and programs for designing holistic learning spaces understood as a cooperative effort between NGOs, informal groups, citizens’ networks and formal education institutions. The online toolbox is divided in four parts: Understanding (Theory about empowerment, competency based learning and facilitation); Before (Planning goals, content, methods. Organising seminars. The facilitation mindset); During (Concrete training techniques and methods from different fields of education); After (Evaluation and documentation of learning processes. Identification and description of learning outcomes). Each part offers instructions and resources to guide the reader in learning and facilitating organisational processes.