SIT DOWN WITH MENTOR PRACTITIONER GYSBERT BERGSMA

By Christina Stavrides We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Gysbert Bergsma, a mentor practitioner at Mentoring Europe. Gysbert was able to provide us with a unique inside perspective on the industry, opening up about his own beliefs on the practice, and how he plans to incorporate them in his exciting, new mentoring …

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Sit down With Mentoring researcher Tereza Javornicky Brumovská, PhD.

By Shanice Juma Nakhuva Mentoring is a principle present in social, steady, and long-term social interactions. Mentoring relationships support young people in their perceptions and experience that there is someone who cares about them, assures them they are not alone in dealing with day-to-day challenges, and makes them feel like they matter. Research to date …

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Creating Better Opportunities for Young People

The OECD Council adopted the Recommendation on Creating Better Opportunities for Young People in June 2022, with the aim of improving youth measures and outcomes. The recommendation emphasizes government-wide strategies and policy principles that focus on skills and competencies, labor market outcomes, social inclusion, youth well-being, and trust in government and public institutions. The OECD …

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European Mentoring Summit 2022 Impact Report

The impacts of the 2022 European Mentoring summit goes beyond the event itself. Besides regional impacts in Leeuwarden, the outcomes of the summit will have significant international impacts on Europe mentoring field, European civic society and policymaking.  To showcase these regional and international impacts, we have released the impacts report of the 2022 European Mentoring Summit.

Mariya Gabriel’s Speech from our event in European Parliament

Speech given in the European Parliament on the 25th of October 2022 Thank you very much…dear members of the European Parliament, dear deputy minister, dear chair of mentoring Europe, ladies and gentlemen, mentees/mentor, First of all, it’s a great pleasure for me to be together with all of you for this event. Dear Ilana, I …

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European Mentoring Field comes together at the European Parliament in Brussels

The first-ever mentoring event in the European Parliament is now a fact. It was a momentous occasion as European decision-makers and the European mentoring field came together to take the first steps in giving mentoring the official recognition that it deserves. The event Mentoring in Europe: building a society of engagement to reduce social inequalities connected the …

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Position paper: Mentoring in Europe: Towards and inclusive society, connecting cultures and generations

Mentoring Europe and the European mentoring community celebrate the publishing of a position paper on mentoring. It has the main objective of showing policy & decision-makers how the European mentoring field foresees the future development of mentoring in Europe and its impacts on civic society. This paper was presented at the European Parliament during the …

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Improving the Quality of Mentoring Programmes & Recommendations for the European Mentoring Field – Interview with Thomas E. Keller

Written by Erika Irabor Our European mentoring community is constantly seeking innovation – improvement, and interaction. Therefore, QUALITY in mentoring is like water for flowers – without it, nothing can grow. One way to accomplish that mission is to learn from other mentoring experts. And this also represents the key purpose of this blog post. The Student …

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Mentoring Event in European Parliament

We are excited to announce the first-ever mentoring event in the European Parliament. We are proud of the work done by our Advocacy committee, working tirelessly for the last 2 years to make this event a reality.  Mentoring in Europe: building a society of engagement to reduce social inequalities will be connecting the European Mentoring field and …

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Workshop on Intentional creativity

By Valeria Traverso, Student Lab As a storytelling post for Student Lab, you are going to experience the reading of my personal experience, feelings and thoughts while attending the workshop on Intentional Creativity in Mentoring. The aim of this post is to share my experience and the beauty of this workshop, that will hopefully enlighten …

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