Category: Volunteering Abroad
At the end of their volunteering journey, many volunteers are about to enter another transition process from volunteering into a future career. Reflecting on one’s learning helps volunteers to become aware of many beautiful learning experience along their journey. But how to put these moments into writing? How to describe the learning outcomes in the language of competences? And how can this help later applying for jobs? Read more
Mentoring under Construction is a community of practitioners who share a passion for mentoring/coaching. This community supports learning, developing and growing mentoring and coaching competences and helps improving the quality of mentoring and coaching within the European Solidarity Corps programme (and beyond). “Step it UP!” is a review of Mentoring under Construction activities and events in 2023. Read more
Are you just about to embark in a mentoring journey with a new volunteer? And you are not exactly sure, what are your tasks? “How to get started? My tasks as a Mentor” present and clarifies what are the most important tasks as a mentor and how to kick off your mentoring journey within the European Solidarity Corps. Read more
What are the core tasks of a mentor? – The Mentoring and Coaching under Research (2023) pointed out a lack of clarity when it comes to the job profile of a mentor. This blog post summarises the various perspectives of this research: mentoring approaches of publications and inquiries with practitioners in the field. Read more
The European Solidarity Corps brings together young people in order to build a more inclusive society, and responding to societal challenges. Solidarity is an important element of every volunteering activity. Mentors also play a part in this. This blog post explores this question and is looking for ways on how to raise the awareness of ESC volunteers about solidarity. Read more
Mentoring and Coaching under Research explores the current mentoring and coaching practices within the European Solidarity Corps programme. The research provides insights into the current concepts, practices, challenges and needs concerning mentoring in Volunteering projects and coaching in Solidarity projects. Read more
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