SciComm Impact Week: Train-the-Trainer Programme
Equip your team to deliver an Impact Week independently: in your own language and institutional context
Most researchers in Europe communicate primarily in their native language. While we deliver our SciComm Impact Week in English to support internationalisation, institutions increasingly want to run intensive communication training in local languages for local audiences.
Our Train-the-Trainer programme builds that capacity. We train your facilitators to plan, deliver, and evaluate an Impact Week, providing our complete toolkit, and supporting them every step of the way so that they can run an Impact Week independently and sustainably, from start to finish.
Why choose a train-the-trainer option?
Run Impact Week in your own language
Adapt the programme for your researchers and local public engagement contexts.
Build sustainable capacity
Train once, run annually. Reduce long-term costs while maintaining quality.
Join a European facilitator network
Connect with Impact Week facilitators across institutions, share adaptations, and learn from collective experience.
Maintain institutional ownership
Keep materials, adapt them freely, and develop your own facilitators over time.
Why choose a train-the-trainer option?
Run Impact Week in your own language
Adapt the programme for your researchers and local public engagement contexts.
Build sustainable capacity
Train once, run annually. Reduce long-term costs while maintaining quality.
Join a European facilitator network
Connect with Impact Week facilitators across institutions, share adaptations, and learn from collective experience.
Maintain institutional ownership
Keep materials, adapt them freely, and develop your own facilitators over time.
How it works
Train-the-Trainer isn’t a workshop about facilitation. It’s hands-on planning and co-delivery of a full Impact Week with expert mentoring and complete access to the lead facilitator for questions and feedback.
Your nominated facilitators-in-training:
Plan the Impact Week alongside our lead facilitator, including dates, venues, participant recruitment, logistics, and pre-programme communication
Co-facilitate a complete 5-day Impact Week alongside our lead facilitator, with real participants and a live showcase event
Receive the full, proven SciComm Impact Week toolkit, which includes checklists, run sheets, session plans, exercises, templates, and participant resources to adapt and use
Get ongoing support throughout, including pre-programme planning, daily debriefs during delivery, post-programme reflection, and remote support during your first independent delivery
After successful delivery, your institution:
- Can run Impact Week independently in your own language
- Gains one year of Community of Practice membership (updated materials, quarterly facilitator sessions, European network access)
- Can certify facilitators who successfully deliver the programme (optional)
Delivery models
Regional collaboration (recommended)
Partner with 2-3 nearby institutions to share costs and create a rich, interdisciplinary cohort.
Each institution sends facilitators-in-training and participants.
Single institution
Run Train-the-Trainer for your institution only, training your team with your own participant cohort.
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Who this is for:
- Universities and graduate schools wanting intensive communication training in local languages
- Research consortia building communication capacity across partner institutions
- National research organisations developing systematic training programmes
- Regional networks wanting to share resources and create facilitator communities
Investment
Programme fees vary based on delivery model (regional collaboration or single institution) and number of facilitators-in-training.
All facilitator-training options include co-facilitation, complete toolkit, mentoring, and one year of Community of Practice access. (Observer options receive the toolkit only).
Request our detailed brochure for full pricing, delivery options, and programme specifications.
Ready to explore Train-the-Trainer for SciComm Impact Weeks?
We’re happy to discuss your goals, timeline, and whether regional collaboration or single-institution delivery makes sense for you.
Use the form to tell us a bit about your situation, and we’ll send you our comprehensive brochure with detailed pricing, delivery options, and programme timeline. Or book a call to talk through your needs.
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