Mentoring under Construction - Let's face it in 2022!

Mentoring under Construction is a process of exploration and community building in the landscape of mentoring within the European Solidarity Corps.

This process started online in late 2020 and still continues several online events later bringing alltogether more than 100 professionals and passionates in the field of mentoring.

Building the Mentoring under Construction Community

Now, we want to develop this community further. And... Let's face it, face to face makes a difference. Same principles but a different vibe!

The Mentoring under Construction Community that we are envisioning is being built by professionals interested in raising the quality in mentoring, in search for:

• Building a common understanding of key concepts around the role of mentor: role, responsibilities, needed competences
• Personal and professional development to keep up with the emerging challenges in the field of mentoring 
• Knowledge sharing and good practices
• A vibrant network of mentors, ready to support one another, learn and develop

Target group

So, if you are a mentor or just about to embark on this journey, if you are developing and implementing ESC projects, if you are coordinating volunteers or facilitating their learning process, if you are developing tools and resources about mentoring, joining this process of building a Mentoring under Construction Community is the right place for you.

A three days face to face event. New dates 27-31st of March 2022 
(arrival day 27th, full activity days 28-30th, departure day 31st of March)
The event was postponed (inital dates - 24-28th of October 2021) duue to the national interdiction on organizing any courses announced on 23rd of October.

Why? Join us for the first face ot face event in 2021 to continue the community building process in order to:

• Connect with professionals in the field of mentoring from all over Europe
• Share good practices and relevant resources
• Tackle the challenges in the field of mentoring
• Identify further steps for working and supporting each other

Who? All who have engaged so far are warmly welcomed and those who are interested to join from now on are eagerly expected.
This is a pilot face to face activity and is restricted to ESC program countries and some conditions imposed by COVID19 (see details HERE). The participants should provide:

• Proof of full vaccination, completed at least 10 days before travelling.
• Proof of recovery from COVID-19. Validity: 180 days
• Negative test PCR result. Validity: 72 hours (costs to be covered by the participants)

Due to the fact that the event was posponed, all the intial aapplicantions are still considered. All the approved applications are still considered and the the initial participants invited to be part of the event. 

New applications (until the new deadline) will be considered as well and the new selection process will be also in place in addition to the initial one.

Follow-up / MeetUP

This event will be followed up by a series of MeetUPs, short thematic events aiming to address specific mentoring issues based on the community interests as well as online workshops. In addition a series of videocasts and online resources are envisaged to be produced and/or shared.