Qui.L.T.
The concept of Qui.L.T. encloses the Quality in Learning and Training experiences that Politistiko Ergastiri Ayion Omoloyiton
Just like quilting, where various patches come together to create a cohesive and vibrant whole, our courses are stitched in such a way to bring together different elements to create a rich and effective educational experience.
Diverse Components: In quilting, each patch has its own unique design, fabric, and texture. Similarly, in learning, diverse teaching methods, materials, and learner backgrounds contribute to a richer educational tapestry. Embracing this diversity we enhance engagement and understanding.
Careful Stitching: Quilting requires careful stitching to hold everything together. In our courses, the importance of a well-structured curriculum that connects concepts logically (even not visible many times) reinforces learning over time, ensuring that knowledge is interwoven seamlessly.
Attention to Detail: Just as a quilter pays attention to the details to achieve a beautiful outcome, our facilitators take it upon them to focus on the nuances of learning, such as participants needs, feedback, and reflection, to foster an environment where quality thrives.
Adaptability and Creativity: Quilters often adapt their designs based on the materials and resources available. In the same way, our learning environment encourages creativity and flexibility, allowing for real-time adjustments to meet learners’ needs effectively.
Community and Sharing: Quilting can be a communal activity, where individuals share their skills and creations. A strong learning community fosters collaboration, peer support, and shared knowledge, which can enhance the overall quality of training. The group as a resource
By integrating these ideas, we can work toward creating high-quality learning experiences that are as intricate and meaningful as a well-crafted quilt. We shall also craft a Real and not Imaginary Qui.L.T together!!
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Enrolment Regulations and Conditions
Interacting with/through Culture
Non Formal Methodology in International contexts
Intercultural-Interpersonal Learning/Teaching
Upcoming Sessions
You can find the upcoming course sessions below. Other periods can be booked upon request for more than six participants.
2025 sessions
30/06-04/07/2025 Lefkosia, Cyprus
28/07-01/08/2025 Lefkosia, Cyprus
2026 sessions
27/04-01/05/2026 Lefkosia, Cyprus
22/06-26/06/2025 Lefkosia, Cyprus
20/10-24/10/2026 Lefkosia, Cyprus
This Erasmus Course was created from a need to offer participants a chance to discover phenomena of culture and cultural diversity within everyday life in International learning contexts. It has been a course structured in many years of experience of our facilitating groups.
It empowers our participants to transform their teaching into a more creative and engaging experience bases on non formal Methods, discover more about their personal culture and gain a positive attitude in dealing with international activities.
Course Objectives
- To promote and develop awareness of interactive teaching methods
- To create a multicultural space for sharing experiences with interactive teaching methods
- To develop the intercultural competencies when organizing international courses through exploration of cultural diversity from a perspective of real everyday life
- To challenge participant’s capacity to use very different cultural environment as a tool to discover identity (become aware of your own culture so that you can open to others who are different)
- To acknowledge among participants the importance that influence of culture has on person’s perception of reality, everyday behaviour and identity
- To introduce participants with the approaches and activities of intercultural learning and possibilities to adapt it to their local contexts and realities
- To exchange best practices amongst educators in working within multicultural groups - Methodology
- To improve communication skills by working collaboratively in transnational groups
Why
This Erasmus course has been designed for teachers of different subjects who wish to find out new interactive methods of learning and teaching.
Because ICL (Intercultural Learning) and Cultural Diversity not only are still important, but even vital in the actual context of Europe, with its new challenges and issues. Under the lights of these new challenges and issues of Europe, there is the need to bring some innovation in ICL and Cultural Diversity projects, and to re-think, re-shape, or just to properly underline the importance of the role of youth-workers, trainers, in the European Programs, projects, landscape, linking it more an clearly with the European reality and its many local realities.
In specific, exploring Religion, Traditions, Food, Music, Languages, Communication patterns, Relations, Time, Personal culture, Relation towards other cultures, Power issues, Gender Roles in society and all the other things that shape our everyday life (behaviour, identity, beliefs, values and rules) and all of them are deeply rooted in our culture. By acknowledging the importance of culture in everyday life and understanding that these set of regulations differ from group to group that one belongs to, participants will understand that these topics are essence of intercultural learning and are important part of becoming sensitive to cultural differences. For the sake of comprehending obstacles (stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination and violence) that occur during intercultural dialogue and finding possibilities for overcoming these problems, one first has to understand one’s own culture.
Target Audience
Teachers of different subjects
Teacher/ trainers
Career officers, educational guides and counsellors
Head teachers/managers of organisations offering adult education
Required Competences
Knowledge of the course language: English
Basic need to have fun and enjoy the process of a personal development journey
Methodology
- Non Formal methodology is the base of our activities, meaning , interactive sessions with interactive participation
- Individual and group group tasks, taking into consideration participants’ learning needs with a creative approach
- Participants will have a chance to use local environment as a setting to explore specific aspects close to their interest related to the topic of the training course.
- The products of these explorations will be presented through various media tools. This direction was taken to enable participants to work on the specific topic of the training from a very personal perspective, proposing and choosing elements on which to work and implement.
- Participants are expected to play an active role. They will work in transnational groups during the course period.
- An evaluation questionnaire will be given to the participants to gather participants’ opinions about the training and its contents, logistic organisation, instructors, materials provided and asses to which extent the course managed to improve participants’ competences in the field of interactive and innovative teaching.
Preparation
Prior to the beginning of the training, participants will be sent the detailed programme of the course along with a pre-departure support consisting of the necessary information required to reach destination and successfully manage within the course period in the new country.
Participants will be asked to fill in a questionnaire regarding their backgrounds/needs. Questions will refer to their interest and experience in educational games, topics.
Course Information
Participants who attend at least 80% of the course will receive a Certificate of Attendance on the last day.
Classes are scheduled either in the morning or in the afternoon, and the programme schedule may slightly vary from the preliminary one.
The course will offer the least 25 hours of sessions throughout the 5 days of the training
For the course programme, please send us an email trainingexperiences@politsitiko-ergastiri.org
The opportunities to visit the city and other cities of the island will be introduced to the participants before the beginning of the course.Modules within the five days of the course
1. Exploring the local environment and cultural diversity
2. InterPersonal Culture and Non Formal Methodology
3. Educational interactive games suitable for learning process in international groups
4. Personal Competence development
Cost of participation
A. 5 day training course - min 25 hours of sessions - Participation fee: 480 euros
B. 5 day training course - min 25 hours of sessions, including 1 meal on premises - Participation fee: 480 course fee + 100 euros
C. 5 day training course - min 25 hours of sessions, including Accommodation and 1 meal - Participation fee: 480 euros fee + accommodation to be discussed with interested participants. Depending on needs.
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