In November 2006 the first Training of Intercultural Trainers (TOIT) took place. The event was a huge success and inspired 25 participants to put to practice their newly acquired knowledge and skills to organise intercultural initiatives in Europe. Already during the preparations of the first TOIT, it became clear that there should be a second one. There were so many people who wanted to participate that many of them had to be disappointed. The need for a second TOIT became even clearer when a very enthusiastic group of participants completed the first TOIT. It had proved to be a magnificent week where the participants learned both from the trainers and from each other in theory and in practice. It could not have been better. Need we say more! TOIT II is coming!

The overall objective of the training course, Training of Intercultural Trainers (TOIT), is to provide young educators with the knowledge and tools to develop, implement and evaluate an intercultural training course within their own local, regional or international environment. We aim to improve the quality of international/ intercultural youth work and to assure advancement of skills and competences of young educators. Through workshops, simulations, lectures and an exchange of best practices 25 young people will work together on challenges of running intercultural learning events in a multicultural environment. During the event the participants will work not only on the development of intercultural-management skills, improvement of intercultural knowledge and practical skills in fields of didactics, training design, presentation techniques, giving feedback, motivation techniques and working methods in a multi-cultural environment, but they will also have a chance to develop their own independent projects and create working teams that could implement a new wave of intercultural activities.
With these independent projects we aim to establish an indirect impact on the participant?s surroundings. Indirectly all the people whom could benefit from the future activities run by TOIT?s participants, can also be seen as our target group. From the first TOIT we know that the participants are interested in launching intercultural training courses on both local and international level. We aim for the same effect with TOIT II. That is why we want to provide them with opportunities to develop strategies for initiatives undertaken on both local and international scale. In a broader perspective, due to a snowball effect, we are certain that a broad world community will benefit from the spin-off effect of TOIT.
The follow-up after the TOIT is one of its strongest points. One of the goals of the training is to make participants put the acquired knowledge and experience into practice in the year(s) following the training. Our initiative aims at shaping and educating trainers, who will then become multipliers and ?ambassadors? of the up-to-date intercultural strategies and approaches. After accomplishment of the training, those above-mentioned ambassadors will go to different parts of our continent and run training courses, projects and other initiatives for other, less privileged people, who will in this way indirectly benefit from the training course.