Young people / young adults (16 to 27 years) who are interested in the ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach training can get information and register here.

Since 2008, partner organisations in the international ROOTS & ROUTES network have jointly developed a concept and curriculum for a cultural peer coach training; for young artists* from the fields of performing arts and media who would like to pass on their competences to other peers and younger people as coaches; and who would like to build up a secondary or perhaps even main activity as junior lecturers in youth and cultural institutions or at (all-day) schools.

Committed core points of this training:

• • Competences are promoted in 3 areas: Artistic, pedagogical and “entrepreneurial” (self-management, entrepreneurship).
  • The training has at least 168 h (6 x 28 h = 6 ECTS), in each of them at least 60 seminar hours and at least 60 h of own practice hours; in addition, international exchange programmes, reflection hours etc. can come.
  • Whoever successfully completes the 168 h will receive the ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Certificate; this is not yet recognised by any state, but at least by 11 ROOTS & ROUTES partner organisations in 10 European countries.

In this project we cooperate with partners from different federal states. One round of the ROOTS & ROUTES peer coach training will take place per project year, a total of 48 peer coaches will be trained, 32 from the cooperating federal states and 16 from Cologne/NRW. A list of ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coaches is available here.