Implementation of HCD
Formats of the
Academy for International Cooperation
Formats of the Academy for International Cooperation
You already know who, what skills to learn for what purpose? Then it's time to think about the HOW?
The wishes and conditions for developing competence are different. Therefore, the Academy for
International Cooperation offers various and combinable formats through which you, your employees
and partners can achieve individual learning objectives and contribute to systematic changes.
Questions for Orientation
Which formats are appropriate for you? First, figure out your wishes and conditions with the following
questions.
1. How open and individual do you want you to lay out the process of developing
competence?
 I need a moderated learning process with predefined contents facilitated by the AIZ.
 I prefer a learners’ self-directed learning process with individually selected contents coached by
the AIZ.
2. Output is processed input. Where is your focus?
 The learners are expected to primarily acquire content / input.
 The learners are expected to primarily generate new ideas /output.
 The learners shall acquire contents first and are then to be accompanied with the application and
implementation.
3. For what role do the participants develop competence?
 The learners shall apply the new skills primarily for themselves, - as a specialist, manager or
executive.
 The learners are expected to act as multipliers – trainers, consultants - to impart the newly
acquired skills.
4. How important is networking for you?
 Collaborative learning also offers the opportunity to enter a (technical) network.
 Collaborative learning encourages team building and initiates cooperation in terms of achieving
common objectives.
 Networking plays a minor role for me.
5. Over what period do you want to lay out the learning process?
 a few days
 a few weeks
 a few months
 a year and longer
6. How flexible are you when it comes to study times?
 The learners can be exempted for a certain time to devote themselves to competence
development.
 Learners can spare only a few hours a day / per week for competence development.
 Study times are fixed.
 Study times can be flexible.
7. How flexible are you as for the learning location?
 All learners can convene at different locations.
 All learners can convene at a certain place.
 Learners must learn from different locations.
8. How many individuals learn at the same time?
1
 10
 100
 1000
9. How often will you conduct the training?
 1x  several times  regularly  I don‘t know yet
Now you have rough idea of your framework conditions. The customer portal of AIZ is pleased to
concretize with you the terms of how to proceed further: kundenportal-B8@giz.de
Fifteen Formats
Face-to-Face Modules, Joint Trainings
The AIZ facilitates face-to-face training modules in its own training center in Bad
Honnef, in other GIZ facilities all over Germany and worldwide and upon request
on site at the customer premises.
Face-to-face modules are tightly moderated and suitable for shared content,
reflection and the processing of input to develop individual solution strategies. The
duration moves from 2 to 14 days. Particularly suitable for groups up to 12
participants, who are able to convene at the same time and at the same place.
You will find an offer for face-to-face modules in our training catalog:
http://gc21.giz.de/AIZ-Katalog
The modules can be booked by individuals as described or be tailored to the
specific needs of a concrete group.
A joint training is a face-to-face module with an intentionally heterogeneously
composed group of participants. Joint learning is the occasion of bringing people
together who
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are very diverse and thus can learn from each other - also how to deal
with diversity,
work together (in the future) and want to develop a common starting
point
want to bring forward a common idea in different positions / organizations.
Learning with New and Social Media
"Learning with new and social media" summarizes various formats which either
differ in their design or in the terminal equipment applied.
On Global Campus 21, the interactive and learning platform of GIZ, the AIZ
offers the following formats
 E-Learning – self-directed and tutored
 Webinars – web-based seminars where a resource person organizes an
online seminar on a given content at a certain time for a fixed group of
participants. Appropriate software enables a wide range of activities of the
auditorium.
 MOOCS, Massive Open Online Courses, with an unlimited number of
participants
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Blended Learning – a coordinated combination of virtual offers and faceto-face modules for a longer process of competence development, e.g.
the Summer-/Winter School, an extended exchange of knowledge and
experience on management responsibility in a specific field.
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Scenario Based Learning – learners follow a fictitious story. They gain
information which they use in addition to their previous knowledge to
develop solutions.
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Mobile Learning - Learning environments that are optimized for the use
with mobile phones: http://www.gc21-eacademy.org/mobile/
Learning with new and social media means that the participants are responsible
for designing their learning process individually. Learning solutions in the virtual
classroom are manifold and can be customized tailor-made. Both, appropriating
contents and generating output, is possible. The advantage of learning with new
and social media is the independence of time and place and hence the
compatibility with employment. Through the use of web portals the course
contents remain to be available beyond the actual duration of the training, they
can even be further developed and the learners stay in touch. .
www.globalcampus21.org
www.gc21-eacademy.org
Conferences, Knowledge Sharing and Expert Networks
The AIZ offers customized conferences worldwide and promotes experts
networks.
Trademark is a (virtual and analog) conference didactics for an exchange which is
self-directed and based on experience.
The AIZ links experts in thematic networks for knowledge sharing and co-creative
knowledge generation. This consolidates the once started competence
development process.
www.alumniportal-deutschland.org
www.giz.de/leadership-lab
www.tvet-portal.net
Accompanied Self-Study
The AIZ creates spaces for self-directed learning processes worldwide and
supports learners to self-manage their learning paths effectively.
Accompanied learning includes research and the provision of tailor-made
learning materials as well as to reflect on the learning path: learning biography,
type related learning methods, self-management.
An appropriate AIZ infrastructure for accompanied self-study is located in the
didactics center in Bad Honnef/Germany, with an award winning learning
environment offering more than 40,000 media in 15 topic rooms and to some
extent unique self-developed learning materials.
This format is useful for individuals who want to deepen their knowledge in
specific fields.
Place and time for an accompanied learning can be arranged individually.
Coaching and Consultation
The AIZ offers coaching and consulting services for individuals or groups, faceto-face or virtual, for all subject areas of the AIZ:
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International cooperation
Communication in foreign languages
Compatibility of career and family
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Management
Leadership
International Competence Development
Vocational training and other sector subjects
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Information Services
Global knowledge cooperation
Learning with new and social media
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Advisory services for training institutions
Coaching or consulting services are recommended in particular for individuals or
small groups of participants who want to work on individual topics or personal
issues.
Place and time can be arranged individually.
Open Innovation
The AIZ moderates innovation processes as Open Innovation.
The Innovation Lab as a format of an "Unconference", cf.
Open Spaces /
BarCamp, provides an open space for experts from around the world who design
as participants the contents and processes independently.
Self-directed Peer Learning Processes thus promote the mutual professional
support for the first steps in implementing a vision.
Learning Tours and Professional Study Tours
GIZ organizes learning tours, i.e. it selects locations, companies, organizations for
specific learning projects to enable the participants to learn by experience and
combines them with a preparation and a follow up to ensure an optimal learning
process.
Leadership Journeys are tailored learning tours focusing on Leadership
Development within the context of specific sector issues , e.g. climate change,
good governance, health.
This format is particularly suited to gain inspiration for the own area of
responsibility within the framework of one to two weeks. In addition and
complimentary to this, GIZ moderates the transfer and the innovative
implementation, if requested.
Germany as a learning location is particularly appropriate for subject areas in
which Germany plays a leading international role. It is possible to set various
individual priorities within a subject area.
Theory & Learning in Practice
The AIZ provides the opportunity for a combined learning of theory & practice .
In cooperation with partners from industry, science and administration the AIZ
combines the acquisition of technical knowledge, internships and access to
networks in different sectors worldwide.
This format displays its strength as of two weeks up to one year at a given
learning location and learning time. The application of the acquired knowledge in
the organization / institution of the participants is accompanied by the AIZ through
transfer projects beyond the period of practical learning.
Germany as a f learning location is particularly appropriate in subject areas in
which Germany plays a leading international role. It is possible to set various
individual priorities within a subject area.
Reflection
The AIZ accompanies long-term learning processes. It promotes learning from
experience through backing the learning process and practical reflection.
This format is suitable for groups particularly as a recurring element in longer-term
programs. It strengthens the ownership of the participants for their learning
process, supports individual ideas for implementation and connects individual
measures to a coherent overall process.
Training of Trainers
The competence of the trainers is of crucial importance for further training
institutions. Sustainable competence development can only be achieved by a pool
of competent trainers.
The AIZ develops manuals and concepts for trainers and implements training of
trainers.
Particular attention is directed on a variety of formats and exemplary methodology
and didactics so that the trainers themselves experience how optimal learning
looks like. We offer Training of Trainers in the following subject areas:
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Methodology and didactics for competency-based learning solutions
(applicable to individual areas of expertise)
Trainers in vocational education
Training of learning consultants and learning process coaches
Training of E-Tutors
Qualification of language trainers
Qualification of intercultural trainers
Trainers have the opportunity to practice in the AIZ as co-trainers as well as in
carefully and jointly planned pilot trainings accompanied by the AIZ.
Imprint
Published by
Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Registered offices
Bonn and Eschborn
Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ)
Friedrich Ebert Allee 40
53113 Bonn
T: +49 2224 926-444
E: kundenportal-aiz@giz.de
I: www.giz.de/akademie
Person responsible
Adelheid Uhlmann
Place and year of publishing
Bonn, 2014