One of the most important parts of a successful learning procedure is the support provided on behalf of mentors. The existence of mentors in the learning process is essential for the learners. Through mentoring programmes, learners can understand better the information received, they can develop new skills and improve existing ones faster, and strengthen their critical thinking.
What about the mentors although? As the years are passing and technologies change, mentors need to receive regular training and information, so that to be up to date with all the latest teaching and learning trends.
This is exactly what we want to achieve through the MENTORING CHANGE project. MENTORING CHANGE is a European initiative co-funded by the EU Commission through the Erasmus+ programme and developed by partner organizations from five different countries – Spain, Germany, Ireland, Cyprus, and Greece. Through this project, the partnership aims to train mentors on how to understand an individual’s soft skills, job preferences, and learning styles, and to teach engagingly and innovatively digital competencies so that they can better advise them on how to articulate them to improve employability.
Other objectives of the MENTORING CHANGE project are the following:
- Publicly demonstrate the project’s support for the implementation of the “New Skills for New Jobs” strategy
- Creating upskilling pathways, improving accessibility, and increasing take-up of adult education
- Cooperation between educational institutions and business
- Develop a guideline for mentoring and training programs focusing on learning digital competencies for adults
- To create support for adult educators, with an attractive, practical, and innovative methodology promoting high quality in adult education institutions
- Structuring of a different “mentoring” that focuses more on the relationship of each adult “mentee”, their digital skills deficiencies and mismatches than on the structure from which it is realized, improving considerably their professional and work competencies
- Share lessons learned and best practices among project partners and stakeholders in the wider EU context.
By the end of the project, the partnership will deliver the following results/activities:
- Guidelines for career-focused mentoring
- Training material for training of adult teachers-mentors
- Adult short-term staff training events in each partner country
Project Duration: 18 April 2022 – 18 June 2023
Project Number: 2021-1-ES01-KA210-ADU-000035043
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