Project
M-LEARN
MENTORING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE AND LIFELONG LEARNING
Project has started on 31. 10. 2020 and will finish on 30. 10. 2022.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
Nowadays, mentoring provides many opportunities for hands-on transfer of knowledge and experience from professionals in different domains to less experienced and less skilful people. Mentors could also act as role models to their mentees, thus spreading good examples and positive work ethics. Mentoring is also an excellent way to combine teaching with on-the-job training and blended learning. This opens new opportunities and access to skilful professionals and entrepreneurs to become non-formal educators and to transfer their knowledge and skills to adults, including low-skilled and low-qualified individuals and migrants from distant and or rural areas, who want to re-enter the labour market or to start their own business. It is also aimed at young people, who want to start or progress in their careers. M-LEARN project focuses on the innovative use of mentoring for social change and life-long learning. It allows adult educators, teachers, tutors, mentors and entrepreneurs from 6 different countries to exchange good practices ranging from using mentoring for community development and social inclusion of vulnerable groups through mentoring youth and social entrepreneurs, to CSR-based mentoring and involving 50+ professionals in mentoring activities. This will allow them to offer better services to adult learners from their communities.
WHAT ARE OUR PROJECT's objectives?
1. Developing the capacity of mentors and adult educators by exchange of best practices in the fields of mentoring jobseekers and early school leavers, intergenerational knowledge sharing, online and blended learning mentoring, youth entrepreneurship and mentoring volunteers.
2. Improving mentoring skills and competences of non-formal and informal adult educators, training professionals and mentors to support adult learners.
3. Including low-skilled and low qualified people, vulnerable social groups, migrants, NEETs, etc., to go back to the labour market or to start their own business initiatives, by developing a Best Practice Guide, summarizing the exchanged practices.
4. Creating a network of professionals in the field of formal, non-formal and informal education, who are familiar with or interested in using mentoring for social change and life-long learning.
WHAT ARE OUR PROJECT's resultS?
- Six mentoring practices will be exchanged within the project regarding mentoring jobseekers and early school leavers, intergenerational knowledge sharing, online and blended learning mentoring, youth entrepreneurship and mentoring volunteers / CSR-driven mentoring
- Six three-days LTTAs will be organized in all partner countries
- Twelve internal educators (representatives of the partner organizations) and 36 external educators (from stakeholders, associate partners or other related organizations) will enrich their competences in the field of mentoring
- A Best Practice Guide, summarizing the exchanged mentoring practices, will be developed
- Six local dissemination events will be organized to present the Guide and the exchanged good practices to stakeholders, educators (teachers, trainers, tutors), who work in the field of activities and services. Small and micro-sized business and social entrepreneurs, who want to enrich their mentoring practices, public bodies, etc.
- Four Transnational Project Meetings will be organized and conducted
Project Number: 2020-1-FR01-KA204-079933
Project Website: https://mlearnproject.eu/
This project has been funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The information and views set out in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Neither the European Union institutions and bodies nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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