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Within the Erasmus+ project Beyond NEET(D)s implemented in Austria, Cyprus, Portugal, Italy and Czech Republic, which aimed to support the most vulnerable subgroups of unavailable or disengaged persons who are...

This article describes in a every lively matter how pedagogy could take on a mentorship like approach and therefore become less “unyielding, uniform, mechanical nature of traditional”. Although this article...

The YouthShare project has been implemented in Greece, Cyprus, Spain and Italy and its aim was to contribute to the reduction of youth unemployment in coastal and island regions of...

Academia do Johnson is an NGO, that aims to promote human development and well-being, through personalised support to children and young people from fragile family and social contexts, as well...

Academia Faz Acontecer promotes the development of personal and professional skills in young people, such as resilience, leadership, proactivity, critical thinking and positive communication, inspiring and empowering the youth to...

Government action plan for Norwegian universities and colleges to improve the knowledge and understanding necessary to take advantage of the opportunities digital solutions provide. This includes adaptations institutions can make...

Adulting at Work can be used as a guide for a college class or in an informal learning setting. It provides a foundation for helping emerging adults learn about their...

This webinar highlights the importance of digital skills in education, and how these skills can empower children in both their academic and daily life.

B-MENTOR project seeks to contribute to improve the level of skills and competences of both new entrepreneurs in the sector and experienced managers, taking advantage of the potential and knowledge...

The National Youth Development Organization has developed and promotes an e-Mentoring programme which connects young people with mentors through digital media. 1 hour per week is their premise.

This project identifies and challenges these barriers by providing young people, NGOs & social movements with tools to enable access to diverse communities in their governance and actions (via e-Learning...

Its main objective is to help young people access the labour market, creating the first professional ecosystem in Spain that places the aims, values and Sustainable Development Goals at the...

Website with a list of county/municipal career centers that provide free guidance to anyone over the age of 19, on career and education choices, finding employment and working life; list...

The Youth Board of Cyprus (YBC) runs the Career Counselling Service and aims to provide youngsters with guidance and information in order to help them make career decisions and support...

An online resource for career guidance professionals. Veilederforum.no is managed by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir). Includes research, theoretical and practical tools.

This mentoring programme is specifically addressing CEOs and managers of non-profit organizations. This is how the programme is described by the organization in charge: Being the leader of an organisation...

In the digital age in which we live, children and young people are taking an active role in their relationship with the media, and the vision of passive, helpless consumers...

An online platform which includes various mentoring courses

This webinar provides information in regards to how social, political , technological and other trends can be used to prepare us for different scenarios

The CriAtividade®: Problem Solvers em Ação programme is a set of experiences that promote learning through creativity, qualification & mentoring and challenges & activities, in full collaborative immersion, at national...

This policy paper consists of the Digital Strategy for Cyprus 2020-2025 which was adopted in June 2020. This strategy is coordinated by the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital...

DARE– Day One Alliance for Employment” contributed towards the specific objective of the ‘EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment’ “strengthening transnational cooperation to address European challenges in the...

De Mulher para Mulher (dMpM) is a feminist mentoring programme that aims to motivate young women to become more politically and civically involved in the defence of gender equality and...

This webinar emphasises the importance of being aware of the credibility of sources in digital world. Due to the flexibility of finding everything on the Internet it is important for...

Fully digital mentor program which pairs immigrants and refugees with higher education together with volunteers that have experience with the Norwegian labor market.

The Digital Security and Confidence Plan by Junta de Castilla y León in the educational sphere promotes the digital literacy of all members of the educational community, informing, training and...

Digital Youth Work, means proactively using or addressing digital media and technology in youth work. Digital Youth work is not a youth work method but instead it can be included...

Free online course developed by the University of Bergen. Intended for potential e-mentors. Provide:s an overview of different platforms or technical resources; tips and insight into relationship-building in a digital...

This is a supplement to the publication “Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring”. As such it entirely focusses on providing valuable information for designing and implementing mentoring programmes with the...

The E-mentoring supplement is dedicated to recommending additional and enhanced practices beyond those offered in the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring (EEPM). This supplement was developed by MENTOR and...

This paper published in Supervision 21, journal of education and inspection, talks about the mentoring as an educational strategy can form part of the change in the educational paradigm that...

This publication “The Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring”, details research-informed and practitioner-approved Standards for creating and sustaining quality youth mentoring programs and consequently, impactful mentoring relationships. This is the...

Virtual tool with resources and activities to guide the career path, providing the necessary coordinates to decide which career path to follow. It allows mentors working with young people to...

The EPSA (European Pharmaceutical Student’s Association) Mentoring Project is a project that aims to establish a bond between current professionals and students in order to provide them with the career...

Escola de superpoderes – mentoring and nurturing talents of young people at risk of social exclusion The Escola de Superpoderes (Superpowers School) is a space where anyone can discover their...

This project is the portuguese representation of the European Network of Second Chance Schools (E2C-Europe) that offers a new training opportunity to young people, encouraging the development of their potential....

The European Mentoring Summit (EMS) 2022 directly contributes to the goals and objectives of the European Year of Youth of listening, engaging, and promoting concrete opportunities for the young in...

This study aimed to gather information in regards to the needs of multicultural youth mentees and the experiences of their mentors and how these can be improved through digital support.

The TV series "Faz Acontecer" seeks to inspire young people by showcasing success stories from the North to the South of Portugal, as the host conducts interviews with people who...

Faz-Te Forward is a tailor-made training programme that aims to contribute to a greater employability and socio-professional inclusion of young people, focusing on three differentiating factors in job search: transversal...

United Way Spain in collaboration with Salesforce and thanks to their volunteers, develop this mentoring programme in which unemployed young people, who are part of the YMCA employment programmes, are...

The project developed a collection of educational materials and resources in order to support adult educators to address the needs of the most difficult to access ‘Sustained’ NEETs who might...

This programme focuses on meeting the needs of young people prepared to face the labour and economic transformation that our society is undergoing, in which new professions are appearing every...

Global Changemakers is a pioneer in supporting youth-led sustainable development with work centers around enhancing the capacity of young people to develop and implement their own solutions to global challenges....

GREEN MENTOR project aims to design and elaborate innovative VET contents and products to encourage the new professional profile of Mentor for Green Entrepreneurs, identifying and developing the competences, methodologies...

This is a toolkit for mentors to help understand growth mindset. It is intended to support mentors to apply growth mindset strategies in the challenges youth and young adults face....

Gathering contributions from 58 people, the IDEARIA guide is a tool for sharing and reflecting on the experience of the IDEARIA project, which sought in an innovative way to enhance...

A handbook for mentors developed by the Centre for Equality (Likestillingssenteret )that includes an overview of key concepts, best practices, activities, tips, and additional resources.

This Guide serves as a supplement to the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring (EEPM) and includes additional recommended practices focusing on boys and young men of color (BYMOC). These...

A guide that provides answers to key questions about social inclusion processes and service learning. It contains reflections, proposals, challenges, examples and testimonies of useful educators, for professionals and technicians...

How to become a good mentor for young people (18+) working as nurses, social workers and teachers is a handbook with learning materials for face to face blended-learning training course...

The Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG) launched the Academias Gulbenkian Conhecimento (Gulbenkian Knowledge Academies) in May 2018, with the objetive of promoting skills so that today's children and young people are...

This website provides abundant information and instructions on how to start a mentorship programme. The process is a five step approach: - Design the programme - Attract participants - Connect...

The project CURSOR aims to tackle youth unemployment and social exclusion. It provides completely new career planning framework where young Europeans are supported to acquire and develop the necessary skills...

The INTEGRA project is funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of the European Union. The aim of the project is to provide professionals working in residential care with...

Discussion about experiences in different mentoring programmes, mutual learning as mentor and mentee and the main contributions of mentoring to improving the employability of young people: self-knowledge, contextual intelligence, meta-competential...

National career center for unemployed youth between the ages of 15-30, with a particular emphasis on minority groups. They offer individual career guidance counselling, a variety of free courses and...

Tools that include a list of tips for mentors, including providing an introduction to working life and conversation topics. Jobbmentor.no is a mentorship programme for enterprises in the Norwegian municipitalities...

The 6th chapter of the book The Growing Challenge of Youth Unemployment in Europe & US: A Cross-Cultural Perspective coordinated by Radha Jagannathan is dedicated to the labour market policies...

Le Chéile Mentoring is a national, volunteer mentoring and family support service, which works with young people and their families, where the young person is involved in or at risk...

There is a growing recognition in the mentoring field that the failure to provide thoughtful, responsive, and inclusive programming leaves LGBTQ+ youth at risk for additional harm each time they...

Mentoring program which matches employment-seeking individuals with a mentor within their relevant field.

The Mentes Empreendedoras (Entrepreneurial Minds) programme is aimed at young people in secondary education who, through an experiential training model, develop leadership, autonomy and talent skills, activating the potential to...

Mentor program for youth 16 years and older living in the Oslo burrough Gamle Oslo. It also includes workshops with themes such as working life, educational opportunities and personal finances.

Mentor+ is focused on designing an intervention of non-formal education, offering the mentoring methodology to engage, connect and empower young people in conflict with the law. The main idea is...

The Mentor’s guide to youth purpose consists of a guide written directly for mentors to read and explore, along with a set of 15 worksheets that they can use not...

A book by Jennybeth Ekeland about the collaboration between mentee and mentor, and how to carry out effective mentoring programmes. Based on research, theory and practical experience- offers best practice...

Training webinar on the uses and risks of the digital environment applied to mentoring. With presentations by Sandra Gómez, from the Fundació Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, and Pep Oliveras, from...

The Code of Ethics and Good Conduct (CEGC) of the Associação Portuguesa de Mentoring (APMENTOR) guides the actions of its members, establishing guidelines on ethics and professional conduct for those...

This handbook has been developed as part of the Sirius European Network of Educational Support Projects, as a form of providing information in regards to the organisation of mentoring programs...

Mentoring, and specifically, mentoring processes at university level, constitute an effective innovative tool to meet the support and guidance needs of university students. The methodology used in EKS Mentoring is...

This is a policy paper by the Marino Institute of Education which is an associated college of the Trinity Collage Dublin. The purpose of this policy is to ensure that...

First webinar in a webinar series hosted by the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (Diku) on mentoring that addresses questions about challenges and opportunities...

The MC Seal stems from an effort to systematize the existing quality standards, and from the experience and knowledge gathered by the Coordinadora de Mentoria Social in the field of...

This is the scientific work from a Master’s study by Jeanne Lonergan from the University of Limerick about the possibilities of mentoring particularly in schools. The abstract summarizes the article...

The workshop 'Mentoring to Work: Bridging the gap of the labour market for adult newcomers' was led by Valérie Carrette and Carina Grosser-Kaya during the 2020 European Mentoring Summit.

The Mentors for Migrants Programme (MMP) is an initiative promoted by the Alto Comissariado para as Migrações (ACM) and carried out by local partners, at national level. It aims to...

This article reports about a Swedish study about mentorship. The abstract describes it as follows: “Mentorship is a method that is used in both professional education and training and in...

A set of research modules to help selected Teachers Without Borders members best prepare for their active role as mentors for those teachers participating in the five-course Certificate of Teaching...

Handbook with learning materials for face to face blended-learning training course on mentorship skills and career guidance. Trainers will be ale to use this handbook to implement an in-depth training...

The Mentorship Toolbox includes tools for mentors, mentees, and for those who do not know. It includes activities intended to initiate and define relationships, agitate creative processes, and illuminate the...

The project WeGrow EQ Learning for Youth aims to support youth workers, youth trainers, youth leaders and mentors of young volunteers to ensure the social inclusion of all young people....

Government report from the Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion regarding measures for increased employment

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa’s MPOWER Youth Mentoring Program for youth ages 15-24 support job/career readiness: Resume, cover letter, interviews etc. Mentor and mentees meet 8-10 hours/month for a...

The Mullany Fund’s e-mentoring programme is for youth between ages of 14-19, matched someone who is either studying or working in a life science area. Provide support and advice in...

Sweden’s largest mentoring program for individuals with a foreign background and post-secondary education who don’t have a job in their area of competence. Fully digital 4-month programs, about 2 hours...

The Secretaria-Geral da Presidência do Conselho de Ministros (SGPCM), in accordance with its duties defined in its Strategic Plan (SP) 2021-2023, is addressing the multi-year objective of "enhancing innovation through...

This paper describes the outline of the mentoring programme at the NUIG. It’s a comprehensive document which includes: • key actions to perform • the definition of mentoring • description...

Evaluation conducted by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research of a digital career guidance program. The Committee cites a need for further investment in this field, and deems it...

As a part of the EMBEP European project a handbook has been created with the main outcomes of the project, through workshops and project related activities. The aim of the...

A 6-month mentoring programme through the EY Foundation and Learning and Work Institute, which supports young people (aged 16-19) who face significant barriers to entering the labour market. Mentors are...

The PlusOne mentoring programme was launched in YMCA Dublin in March 2018 after the success of the PlusOne programme in YMCAs Scotland and Canada. Our aim is to provide a...

This is comparative report among the participant countries of the project PROVYP, which issues policy recommendations aiming to enforce career guidance policies in the project’s member states. The measures seek...

The project seeks to promote upgrading and upskilling by providing vulnerable young people with career guidance and mentoring through an online platform. More specifically, it reflects the strengths and weaknesses...

This study examines the benefits and limitations of the “Big Brother, Big Sister” mentoring programme (listed as a best practice). It analyses the results and intents to help understand the...

By and for young people: Digital innovations that promote social inclusion, health and employment (2017-2020 international research project Catalysts was partner to. Among the goals: to better understand the effect...

SAGAZ is a programme to bring young people, who have finished the 12th grade, closer to companies. It is developed by Alento, a human resource management and consultancy company. SAGAZ...

Sapere Aude is a project conceived to demonstrate that, with a reduced and effective investment based on a structured volunteer program of social mentoring, along with the coordinated participation of...

The booklet Será que isto é para mim? is one of the results of the project 15/25 Participa, a partnership between ComParte/Fundação Maria Rosa and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, in which...

SPORTY MENTOR PROJECT – Mentoring as a tool to motivate young people with challenging behaviours to adopt a healthy lifestyle and engage in sports SportyMentor Consortium is looking for a...

This paper by Tiernan O’Donnell of the Maynooth University is a qualitative study to explore the experiences and perceptions of newly appointed principals in relation to the effectiveness of a...

The main objective of the STEER project was to design, deliver and test a comprehensive training programme for youth workers in transition planning. The acquired knowledge that youth workers received...

The Leadership Development Programme is paid, formative, professional and lasts for 2 years. In this programme, the Mentor works full-time in a school in a socio-economically disadvantaged context, accompanying one...

The TELMS project addresses the need for appropriate use of TEL within education provision and the facility to support the staff to embed this in the classroom. Whitin this project...

This mentoring programme is dedicated to the young people in school or in their transition year. Its purpose is to inspire the creative mindset in young people in order to...

The Coach Programme by Fundación Exit is a corporate volunteering initiative aimed at guiding and motivating socially vulnerable youth who have dropped out of school. It targets socially responsible companies...

Information about The Follow-Up Service, and a list of links to each respective county’s Follow-Up Service webpage. The service collaborates with county, municipal and state agencies to provide support for...

The Mentor Handbook: A Practical Guide for VET Teacher Training' is a result of collective work of experts, practitioners, university lecturers initiated within the Cedefop’s Training of trainers network (TTNet)....

Minding Creative Minds is an organization to offer support to the Irish creative sector. They have come up with a mentoring programme specially serving people by matching mentors and mentees...

As part of the 1st Online Conference on Education in the 21st Century, this paper aims to raise awareness of some of the needs and challenges of the Teaching-Learning process....

A report released by Fafo Research Foundation evaluating the mentor and trainee programs run by the Norwegian Directorate of Integration and Diversity (IMDi). The report identifies four success factors; the...

The UN ‘Together mentoring and networking programme’ allows UN staff from all levels and backgrounds to mentor, connect and learn from each other. It involves an external platform which is...

The report is based on empirical data – qualitative data – generated in the participating countries – Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Spain – and analysis of statistical data sets focusing...

The ‘Treasure Box for Mentors…’ treasure box has been developed under the Erasmus + EVS Realm: Masters of the Learning Path project. This project aims to enhance the mentoring skills...

This is a collection of 26 working methods and activities that mentors and other support persons can use in different phases of the mentoring relationship, depending on their needs and...

A program for youth between 18-30 that live in Bærum Municipality offering career guidance counselling, help with CV's and job applications, networking and other support. Each participant has their own...

This is a comprehensive handbook for the alumni mentorship programme by the university college Cork. The document addresses frequently asked questions, provides guidelines for mentor and mentee and a mentorship...

Policy brief that demonstrates how a digital mentoring policy and practice ecosystem can attract a range of stakeholders to support the transition of young Indian women from tertiary education into...

Pairs mentors with backgrounds in business, finance, technology, medicine, law, and athletics- with young men in urban areas between the ages 14-18. Mentors provide emotional and academic support (in person...

This platform brings together individual and collective accompaniment services for unemployed young people aged 16 to 35 to boost their insertion in the labour market with the help of employment...

This handbook on volunteer management was compiled in the context of the project VOAHR - Voluntariado Organizado para uma Ação Humanitária de Referência (Organised Volunteering for a Humanitarian Action of...

The Project aims to develop the soft skills of young people as a means to tackle unemployment among youngsters. Non-formal educational methods have been used to highlight the importance of...

This is a resource for people engaged in mentoring in a young arts setting. It addresses both mentors and mentees, youth theatres or any other arts organization looking to develop...

The project was a training course promoting innovative skills, knowledge and attitudes on individual level and supporting of disadvantaged young people from rural areas in their personal development leading to...

This thesis by Shaun T. Morgan from the University of Derby is a very comprehensive document that analysis many aspects of youth mentoring in different profession settings. This abstract summarizes...

Programme designed to break the cycle of poverty by promoting education and thus transforming the lives of young people who have not been able to access the world of training...