Mentoring by Extended Networks To Organise volunteer Resources Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mentoring by Extended Networks To Organise volunteer Resources

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

Building on the foundations of a previous Erasmus+ project, MAV (2017-1-DE02-KA204-004284, the creation of a blended learning “learning toolkit” for training volunteers to be mentors to newly arrived migrants and assist with their integration into society and the workplace), MentorNET will focus on the following:
– Re-using and adapting the MAV outputs relating to a mentoring training course and make them available as a MOOC that is available worldwide and that is sensitive to the distinct needs of the country of first contact for migrants and the country in which they finally settle.
– Researching good practice for mentoring and mentoring organisations.
– Working across and beyond the partner organisations’ countries to establish a network of migrant organisations and the mentors they are supporting and provide the technological means for them to communicate with each other to share good practice, success stories and failures.
– Establishing an overarching and self-sustaining structure to coordinate mentoring activities and build on the good practices identified and learn from each other’s successes and failures.
The project needs to be carried out transnationally to deliver an effective result and to maximise the impact of the project’s aims. Migrant organisations and their volunteers work in the local communities they serve but migration is a trans-national issue and there is a positive benefit to these organisations and volunteers in sharing their learning with and learning from migrant organisations and volunteers across Europe. In this way good practice can be spread and an effective and empowered self-sustaining international community of migrant volunteers created.

The desired outcome of the project is to:
– Identify best practice for organizing and delivering mentoring
– Establish a dynamic international network of adult volunteers who, having successfully completed the mentoring MOOC with support from their migrant association, are able to act as mentors to migrants
– A self-sustaining, coordinated volunteer-based network that identifies and learns from good practice and failures in mentoring migrants and acts to actively promote the benefits of volunteering.
– A mentoring process that is sensitive to the differing needs of migrants from their first point of contact in a new country and when they find a country to permanently settle in.

A1 Preparation (Months 1-4) Leader E-MEL / Collaboration: ALL PARTNERS
A2 Management (Months 1-24) Leader E-MEL / Collaboration: ALL PARTNERS
A3 Implementation (Months 5-20) Leader JANUS / Collaboration: ALL PARTNERS
A4 Quality monitoring (Months 2-23) Leader SYNTHESIS / Collaboration: ALL PARTNERS
A5 Evaluation (Months 19-23) Leader RIEP / Collaboration: ALL PARTNERS
A5 Dissemination (Months 2-23) Leader MRC / Collaboration: ALL PARTNERS

Outputs
O1 The MENTORnet training package (Months 5-11) Leader: MRC / Collaboration: ALL PARTNERS
O2 The MENTORnet strategy (Months 11-14) Leader: RIEP / Collaboration: E-MEL, JANUS, SYNTHESIS
O3 The MENTORnet network (Months 15-20) Leader: SYNTHESIS / Collaboration: ALL PARTNERS

National multiplier events
E1 Raising awareness event in Marlow (United Kingdom), organized by E-MEL at Month 13
E2 Raising awareness event in Bologna (Italy), organized by JANUS at Month 13
E3 Raising awareness event in Gdansk (Poland), organized by RIEP at Month 13
E4 Raising awareness event in Stuttgart (Germany), organized by IFA at Month 14
E5 Raising awareness event in London (United Kingdom), organized by MRC at Month 14
E6 Raising awareness event in Nicosia (Cyprus), organized by SYNTHESIS at Month 16
Conferences
E7 Mid-term international in Gdansk (Poland), organized by RIEP at month 10
E8 International final conference in London (United Kingdom), organized by MRC at month 22

The MENTORNET transnational project meetings (TPM) will be:
Kick-off meeting (KoM), organized by EMEL in Marlow (United Kingdom), at Month 2
TPM2, organized by SYNTHESIS in Nicosia (Cyprus), at Month 6
TPM3, organized by IFA in Stuttgart (Germany), at Month 10
TPM4, organized by RIEP in Gdansk (Poland), at Month 16
TPM5 organized by MRC in London (United Kingdom), at Month 22

Project Website

http://mentor-network.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 219323 Eur

Project Coordinator

European Management Education & Learning (e-mel) LLP & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Stowarzyszenie Naukowe “Instytut Badan nad Polityka Europejska”
• JANUS S.R.L.
• CONSONANT LTD
• IFA AKADEMIE GGMBH
• SYNTHESIS CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LIMITED