COMPETENCE - Strengthening the knowledge of local management agencies in the transport field (COMPETENCE)

COMPETENCE aimed and aims to enhance the transport know-how of management agencies and their abilities to propose, manage and implement projects. 21 local/regional agencies of almost all European countries were actively involved and transfered their competences nationally. COMPETENCE had three main tasks: 1) Design training and teaching materials and carry out national and international training sessions 2) Consolidation of know-how through the implementation of training case studies 3) Know-how transfer/Dissemination.The approach foresaw a two level training. First level: 18 partners from 14 European countries have been trained in 4 European training sessions (type "Train the trainer course"). These partners act as trainers in their own countries to transfer the best bites of the European training contents to other interested agencies in their own language.The curriculum covers various aspects of transport and energy savings, European policies/programmes, and didactics. It bases on a preliminary analysis of needs and demands.