Local facilitators are active community members who volunteer to guide and energise a group of peers, using English or an EU official language. They act as focal points of local community spaces and as ambassadors or the Coalition by:
- Welcome new members into their local community spaces, making sure that they know where to find relevant information and which activities and events are being hosted.
- Support community managers in ensuring that the community etiquette is followed in local community spaces and support peer exchanges in local language(s).
- Keep local community members informed about key messages, outcomes, and follow-up actions related to meetings, challenges, discussion topics, upcoming activities and events, as well as opportunities for engagement, while encouraging their active participation within the the local and wider community. Community managers will support facilitators by providing ready-to-use information and materials to share.
- Facilitators are encouraged to make sure of the features available on the platform, such as creating topics or contributing comments to existing discussions. They may also consider tagging other relevant members in order to help increase visibility and notify users who may be interested in the topic. The community managers will support facilitators by providing ready-to-use information and materials to share with their local communities.
- By taking turns, local facilitators will participate in community events whenever possible, with special attention to cafés and community leadership meetings.
To ease the coordination with the Coalition's community managers, one facilitator will be considered as "main facilitator" and will liaise with the other facilitators to ensure a smooth collaboration. He/she will:
- Encourage the participation of at least one local facilitator in community events, especially community cafés, GreenComp cafés, Champions meetings, community leadership meetings, and the Education for Climate Days, as well as in the follow-up actions needed to gather and reflect the views and feedback of the wider local community.
- Engage the local community space users, including the participation in activities, organisation of events and activities.
Upon selection, the appointed facilitators will mutually decide who is going to be the main facilitator taking into consideration the real time that each selected facilitator has at their disposal. They will communicate their decision to community managers within 1 week following the first meeting with the new youth coordinators. In case of changes in the future, the local facilitators will be allowed to change this main contact point. This change will have to be communicated to the community managers at the latest within 1 week following the decision.