Mentoring Assessment Tools. Assessing Mentoring Practices and Mentoring Support in European Solidarity Corps Projects

A major milestone of 2024 was launching the Mentoring Competence Framework, which obtained very positive feedback from our field. In 2025, we focussed on promoting and implementing the framework and started developing assessment tools to allow mentoring practitioners and organisations to work with the framework. Now, in 2026, we are happy to present various assessment tools that can be used to develop your mentoring practice and the overall mentoring support system in your organisation.

Mentoring Assessment Tools help to raise the quality of mentoring. They are:

• designed to support mentoring practitioners and organisations in the European Solidarity Corps in reflecting on, strengthening and further developing their mentoring practice and mentoring support.
• built on the Mentoring Competence Framework and offer structured ways to explore mentoring practices and competences, support systems and ethical foundations of mentoring.
• encourage critical reflection and continuous learning.

Mentoring Assessment Tools can be used in different contexts, depending on your role and needs:

• For trainers and facilitators (both internal and external): If you are designing and facilitating a learning process (in a workshop, training course, or a strategic planning meeting) you might want to use the facilitated assessment tools for mentors or organisations. They provide a guided, participatory approach to explore mentoring practices and organisational realities in depth.
• For mentoring practitioners and organisations: If you are carrying out mentoring as a mentor or organising mentoring support within your ESC projects, the online self-assessment tools offer an accessible and flexible way to analyse strengths, identify areas for improvement, and plan further development.

Assessing mentoring practices leads towards a growth plan of individuals, while assessing mentoring support shows a path for organisational development. Whether used individually or collectively, these tools aim to raise the quality of mentoring by turning reflection into action—supporting both personal growth and organisational development.

Mentoring Assessment Tools

With support from the Swedish National Agency, we developed and published the following Mentoring Assessment Tools (with links to SALTO Toolbox)

• Self-Reflection Tools for Mentoring Practitioners of European Solidarity Corps Projects
• Mapping Mentoring Practice– Navigating Mentoring Practice of Mentors in European Solidarity Corps Organisations
• Mapping Mentoring Support– A Compass to Navigate Mentoring Support in European Solidarity Corps Organisations
• Online Self-Assessments for Individuals and Organisations of European Solidarity Corps Projects

Each assessment tool comes with instructions on how to use it and materials and resources.

Let’s briefly introduce them one-by-one:

Self-Reflection Tools for Mentoring Practitioners of ESC Projects

Mapping Mentoring Practice – Navigating Mentoring Practice of ESC Mentors

Mapping Mentoring Support – A Compass to Navigate Mentoring Support in ESC Organisations

Online Self-Assessments for Individuals and Organisations of ESC Projects

A Mentoring Competence Framework

The Mentoring Competence Framework provides a clear and effective guidance for mentoring practitioners. It values mentoring as one of the main support measures that contributes both to the value of the project as well as the well-being of the volunteer.

A competence framework ideally aligns required tasks, behaviours that are required, valued, recognised and rewarded to carry out those tasks and knowledge, skills and attitudes that individuals need to perform and fulfil their role and tasks in an organisation.

Additionally a competence framework can include and touch on values, mindset and/or ethical practices if necessary.

In line with the recommendations of the Mentoring and Coaching under Research report (2022(, this Mentor’s Competence Framework covers the following three areas:

• the tasks of a mentor (focus areas),
• the competences that are needed to fulfil these tasks (mentoring competence) and
• the foundations of mentoring, like important values and mindset of mentoring and guidelines for mentoring (code of conduct).

Mentoring Competence Framework

Mentoring under Construction Content Library

Mentoring under Construction is dedicated to creating content on mentoring related topics, providing theory and models, practical applications, methods and tools that help raise the quality of mentoring programmes and practices. The MuC Content Library includes mentoring content that has been published within the Mentoring under Construction Community over several years.

The content of this library is connected to the Mentoring Competence Framework. This allows you to search for mentoring content by focus areas (mentoring tasks) and mentoring competences. Alternatively, you can browse content alphabetically, by tags (key words) or by media (podcast episodes, newsletters, blog posts and microlearning sessions).

MuC Content Library | Mentoring under Construction

EDITORIAL INFO

Editor and Publisher: OeAD-GmbH | Ebendorferstraße 7 | 1010 Vienna | Headquarters: Vienna FN 320219k | Commercial Court Vienna | ATU 64808925 | Managing Director: Jacob Calice, PhD I Authors: Andreea Rabota-Buzec and Michael Kimmig | Coordination: Miguel Tabera – SALTO European Solidarity Corps | T + 43 153408-0 | rc-solidarity@oead.at | Vienna, April 2026

The content of this publication has been developed in the frame of the NET working activities “Mentoring under Construction” with support of the The Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil society, MUCF.

The Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society, MUCF, is Sweden’s coordinating authority for young people, civil society, faith communities, and national minorities. MUCF is the national agency for the EU youth programmes.

The Swedish Agency for youth and civil society, MUCF

Mentoring under Construction is an initiative and community of mentoring practitioners working on high-quality mentoring for European Solidarity Corps volunteers supported by the National Agencies of Romania, Sweden, France, Austrian National Agency, SALTO European Solidarity Corps Resource Centre and SALTO EuroMed.

Mentoring under Construction Community(linktree)

SALTO European Solidarity Corps supports National Agencies and organisations in the volunteering field and beyond with the implementation of the European Solidarity Corps programme. SALTO European Solidarity Corps is hosted by OeAD. The OeAD is the national agency for the implementation of Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps in Austria. SALTO European Solidarity Corps is part of a European network of SALTO Resource Centres with the mission to improve the quality and impact of the European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+.

SALTO European Solidarity Corps Resource Centre (SALTO Network)

 

Imprint

This publication was co-funded by the European Solidarity Corps Programme of the European Union. The European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained in this publication.

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