Our services

transfer e.V. is a pool of trainers that has accumulated and systematized knowledge and made it available to a professional audience for more than 25 years. Additionally, our staff are complementing these competences.

Additional services in the areas of training and consulting

• Quality development and monitoring, esp. for associations
• Basic orientation for start-up organizations and young professionals
• Training seminars on presentation, group facilitation, and evaluation
• Specialist consulting on children’s and youth travel, intercultural exchange, intercultural team work, conflict management and mediation, parent-child travel and non-profit recreation programs

Each year transfer offers 12 to 15 in-service training seminars in cooperation with IJAB, the International Youth Service of the Federal Republic of Germany. This program has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Youth since 1986, initially under the label of "Model Seminars", and provides high-quality training for multipliers at moderate fees.

Since 1986 our Training Seminars on Youth Travel and International Exchange provides a diverse range of high-quality training programs for large and small non-profit organizations engaged in international children’s and youth travel as well as international youth work. Courses are targeted at experts and facilitators in these fields who are responsible in their organizations as educational managers, trainers, executives, board members, planning advisors, or experienced staff and volunteers.

The Research-Practice-Dialogue (R-P-D) network coordinates and facilitates interdisciplinary and trans-organizational exchange between scientists and practitioners in the field of international exchanges. From its inception in 1989 the R-P-D has organized conferences, expert hearings and collaboration projects, aimed at improving the quality of youth exchange programs and advising program staff and volunteers. Over time, and with representation of the Federal Youth Ministry in its steering structure, the R-P-D has become a recognized player in research and development in the field of international youth work in Germany, providing inputs with sustainable impact on content, concepts, and constellations of international youth work in this country.

For further information please download the flyer below. The R-P-D website www.forscher-praktiker-dialog.de provides an overview of current and previous activities as well as on cooperation structure.

One-day events aimed at providing an overview of professional fields in international youth exchanges and children’s and youth travel, as well as informing on and discussing trends in these areas.

In 2010 the former Annual Conference will become the Annual Forum, organized as its predecessor by the Working Group for Training and In-Service Education, which was established as a national network for trainers and facilitators. The Annual Forum will provide a platform for ongoing and innovative projects: Current topics will be presented and discussed with the objective to develop new cooperation projects (with funding proposals) for implementation in the coming year. The Forum is also intended to facilitate professional and personal exchange of information.

Experts involved in the Training Seminars for Youth Travel and International Exchanges are available for training and consulting of non-profit organizations in these fields. Matching financial aid is granted upon request for these services.

TeamerDays 2011 are the central meeting point for everyone working in the fields of children’s and youth travel and international exchanges, as well as for professionals responsible for recruitment and staffing. Workshops and plenary presentations focus on attractive formats of travel for young people, a separate workshop program is provided for personnel managers. Beyond workshops and presentations there is ample time and space for making new contacts, for discussing, and for partying.

Download our flyer for more information here