The SME ACTor project experience

The SME ACTor project has been an impressive learning opportunity for a particular group of aspirant facilitators, that is, the individual project partners. The whole project was planned and managed as a real action learning journey combining the project’s working aims with the need to acquire learning methods and tools based on particular approach to learning. Formalised action and learning sessions allowed the testing of large parts of the learning curriculum for becoming a facilitator and, at the same time, prepared the project’s own team of what we called 1st tier facilitators to transfer, through a real cascading process, methodologies, tools and recommendations to aspirant facilitators from the different regions involved, whom we called 2nd tier facilitators.