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Trainer

Anyone who fulfils an activity linked to the (theoretical or practical) training function, either in an institution for education or training, or at the workplace.

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Two categories of trainers can be distinguished:

  • a professional trainer is a training specialist whose job may coincide with that of the teacher in a vocational training establishment;
  • a part-time or occasional trainer is a professional in various fields who takes on, in his/her normal duties, part-time training activity, either in-company (as mentors and tutors of recruits and apprentices or as training providers) or externally (by occasionally offering their services at a training establishment);
a trainer may carry out various tasks:

  • design training activities;
  • organise and implement these activities;
  • provide the actual training (transfer knowledge, know-how and skills);
  • help apprentices develop their skills by providing advice, instructions and comments throughout the apprenticeship.
Source:
Cedefop, Glossary. Terminology of European education and training policy, (accessed 03/2023)


A person with pedagogical and professional skills, as well as experience, who imparts practical and theoretical training in an education and training institution or enterprise.

Source:
ILO, Glossary of Key Terms on Learning and Training for Work, 2006


Those who are primarily responsible for imparting practical vocational skills.

Source:
OECD, Glossary of terms used in the international survey of VET systems, 2009


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