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Mentoring under Construction – International Community Event on Mentoring within ESC programme
Seminar
22-26 June 2026 | St. Pölten, Austria
Mentoring under Construction Community Event is the annual international seminar/networking event of Mentoring under Construction. As a community we support practitioners that are passionate about mentoring and would like to shape the landscape of mentoring within the European Solidarity Corps together with us. Mentoring under Construction is powered by SALTO ESC Resource Centre in a partnership with Irish and Romanian National Agencies. We are inviting mentors, project coordinators, trainers to an international seminar focusing on the quality of mentoring within the European Solidarity Corps programme.
Our main focus this year is creating supportive and inclusive environments with reinforced mentorship.
Main objectives
- Connect with professionals in the field of mentoring from all over Europe and share good practices and relevant resources
- Exploring approaches and good practices on how to set up supportive and inclusive environments for volunteers with reinforced mentorship.
- Identify further steps for working and supporting each other
Profile of participants
- People interested in developing the quality in mentoring within the European Solidarity Corps programme: mentors, project manager and coordinators, trainers and authors of tools on mentoring
- Mentoring practitioners from organisations with experience with or who are just starting getting into inclusion and reinforced mentorship.
- Various levels of experience: newcomers and advanced mentoring practitioners are very welcome to apply.
- Ability to communicate in English
- Participation in the whole duration of the event in St. Pölten, Austria
We encourage participation of mentoring practitioners with diverse abilities.
Date & place
The seminar will take place in Bildungshaus St. Hippolyt (www.hiphaus.at/hotel) in St. Pölten, Austria (approx. one hour with train from Vienna Airport)
22 June: Arrivals
23-25 June: Seminar, three full days of programme
26 June: Departures
The Mentoring under Construction Community
The Mentoring under Construction Community is open for everyone who is interested in raising the quality in mentoring within European Solidarity Corps programme (and beyond): mentors, including those, who just embark into this journey and those, who mentor other mentors, project managers/organisers developing and implementing volunteering projects, coordinators of volunteers, facilitators of learning, authors and trainers creating tools and resources about mentoring, and last, but not least, members of National Agencies and SALTO Resource Centres.
The Mentoring under Construction Community aims at:
- building a common understanding of key concepts around the role of a mentor (role, responsibilities, competences) as well as how to develop and implement mentoring programmes within volunteering organisations,
- developing personal and professional competence to keep up with the emerging challenges in the field of mentoring,
- sharing knowledge, resources and good practices,
- building a vibrant network of people engaged in mentoring, ready to support one another, learn and develop.
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Your kind of training?
Apply now! Application deadline (24h UTC): 15 February 2026 Date of selection: 6 March 2026Training overview
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14248
This Seminar is
for 30 participants
from Eastern Partnership countries 
, Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries , Southern Mediterranean countries , Western Balkan countries
and recommended for
Trainers, Youth project managers, Volunteering mentors, Youth researchers
Accessibility info:
This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.
Working language(s):
English
OeAD-GmbH – Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation (National Agency)
Co-organiser(s):
- European Solidarity Corps Resource Centre (SALTO Resource Centre)
Contact for questions:
Michael Gugiemier
E-Mail:
Phone: +43 1 53408-704
Costs
Participation fee
This project is financed by the participating National Agencies (NAs) of the Erasmus+ Youth in Action and 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.
Accommodation and food
The hosting National Agency will organise the accommodation (single rooms) and covers the costs for accommodation and food
Travel reimbursement
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.