Topics

Coaching and mentoring
Community building
Voluntary service
Volunteering

Activity objectives

1.Getting Familiar with the Mentoring Competence Framework

  • Understanding the framework and its purpose
  • Exploring its three key parts: mentoring focus areas (tasks), competencies, and guiding principles
  • Learning how to apply the framework effectively in your mentoring practice

2. Understanding Mentoring Tasks

  • Exploring key focus areas in mentoring and their specific responsibilities
  • Learning and sharing best mentoring practices across different areas

3. Enhancing Mentoring Competencies

  • Evaluating mentoring skills specific to each focus area
  • Creating a personalised learning and development plan
  • Understanding the values and mindset that shape effective mentoring

4. Implementing mentoring in your organisation

  • Brainstorming ideas on how this framework can be used to improve mentoring support

 

Who Can Apply?

Focus Mentoring is a residential training course designed for organisations. We welcome applications from project coordinators, project managers, and other team members looking to enhance their mentoring skills.

  • Are eager to deepen their understanding of mentoring support within the ESC programme
  • Want to explore how the Mentoring Competence Framework can enhance mentoring support
  • Have any level of experience, from beginner to advanced
  • Can communicate in English
  • Are ready to actively engage in all aspects of the training course

Important note: This training course is directed to organisations and focuses on how to support mentoring within volunteering organisations. For mentors, we offer a training course that concentrates more on developing mentoring competencies.

 

Your participation throughout the entire event (arrival day, working days, and departure day) will be important, so please only apply if you are available.

Description

Are you eager to improve mentoring support within the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) programme? - Join us for the "Focus Mentoring", a residential training course that allows you to dive deep into the Mentoring Competence Framework.

The Mentoring Competence Framework provides clear and effective guidance for mentoring practitioners in the ESC Programme.

This training course is designed for members of organisations who are involved in European Solidarity Corps activities and would like to use the framework to improve mentoring support in their organisations.

Mentoring is one of the main support measures of the European Solidarity Corps Programme: it contributes both to the value of the volunteering project as well as the well-being of the volunteer; this also includes the mental health of the participants.

Costs

Coverage of participation fee

This project is financed by the participating National Agencies (NAs) of the European Solidarity Corps Programme. The participation fee varies from country to country. Please contact your National Agency or SALTO Resource Centre (SALTO) to learn more about the participation fee for participants from your country.

Coverage of travel costs

Please contact your NA or SALTO in order to know whether they would support your travel costs. If yes, after being selected, get in touch with your NA or SALTO again to learn more about the overall procedure to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.

Coverage of visa costs

Please contact your NA or SALTO in order to know whether they would support your visa costs. If yes, after being selected, get in touch with your NA or SALTO again to learn more about the overall procedure to arrange the visa and the reimbursement of your visa expenses.

Coverage of other costs

Polish National Agency for Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps Programmes will organise the accommodation and cover the costs for accommodation and food.

Trainers

Additional documents

Accessibility info

This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities

Sign language interpretation

This activity and venue place DOES NOT support sign language

Number of participants

30

Open to participants from

European Solidarity Corps, European Solidarity Corps Programme countries, Austria, Belgium, Belgium, Flemish Community, Belgium, French Community, Belgium, German-speaking Community, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, Western Balkans (European Solidarity Corps), Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Eastern Europe & Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, South Mediterranean, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Norway

Best for

Project managers, Quality Label organisation representatives, Youth workers, Other

Working language(s)

English

Organiser

Fundacja Rozwoju Systemu Edukacji (National Agency)

Coorganiser

Fundacja Rozwoju Systemu Edukacji (National Agency)

Contact for questions

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Fundacja Rozwoju Systemu Edukacji (National Agency)

Coorganised by

Fundacja Rozwoju Systemu Edukacji (National Agency)

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