Block D will take place on Thursday the 19th of March from 14:30h to 16:00h.
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Why and how do we do mentoring? includes four different scientific presentations in English:
This four presentations are focused on philosophical and ethical questions related to mentoring field. Thomas E. Keller & Reneé Spencer from US and Giovanni Aresi from Italy will talk about match closures from two different perspectives. On top of that, Anna Sanchez from Spain will focus on a theoretical framework for mentoring projects.
LANGUAGE: English
Labour market integration is considered a key indicator for measuring migrant success in a host country. Despite numerous labour market interventions to address the large unemployment gap, migrants struggle to find work in their host societies. In an effort to address this, an increasingly popular yet out-of-the-box intervention in this context is ‘mentoring to work’.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Scientific
THEME FIELD: Research & Practice
WHO? Peter de Cuyper
Intentionally bringing creativity into mentoring relationships and programs can help build connections between mentors and mentees, especially when there are socio-cultural differences, thus contributing to better outcomes for mentees. This interactive workshop will highlight three key strategies from practice and research perspectives of a 26-year photography-based mentoring program
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Research-practice
WHO? Sarah Kremer & Erik Auerbach
Effective marketing is essential to successful brand awareness, fundraising and robust community involvement. Integrated marketing communication strategies can encompass a huge range of activities: action plans, asset mapping, intentional networking, creating timely social media content, community events, and much more. The possibilities can be overwhelming, but even small steps help to build sustainability and impact.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Methodologies and Ethics
WHO? Julie Gehring
There is an extensive evidence base on understanding mentoring relationships, formal and informal, and recognizing the emergence of formal mentoring schemes across different sectors and situations. However, what is less well understood is the wider development of formal mentoring schemes and their management.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Scientific
THEME FIELD: Research-practice
WHO? Judie M. Gannon
“BUDDYing” is a social innovation, a deeper form of long-term mentoring based on attachment theory to meet the needs of high-risk institutionalised children. It is a complement to the foster care system. The BUDDY expert team finds, matches, trains and supports volunteers so they can provide 1:1 individual long-term (min. 3 years) support for abandoned children who are not growing up in their own families.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Research-practice
WHO? Lucia Kossárová
In this workshop, possibilities and challenges of intercultural mentoring in the MentoMigri project are described and critically assessed. The main emphasis is on experiences of the mentors (n=46) and mentees (n=74) involved with the MentoMigri. Participants of the workshop are also invited to share and discuss their experiences and thoughts.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Socio-cultural diversity
WHO? Johanna Moilanen & Ulla Koukkari-Anttonen
With mentoring programme effects intrinsically tied to the quality of the relational bond forged between each mentor-mentee dyad, the success of mentoring as an intervention requires a more profound understanding of mentor-mentee relational dynamics than those offered by common mentoring research methods. This methods-focused workshop will explore the challenges encountered when we rely on mono-method approaches to study mentoring relationships.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Scientific
THEME FIELD: Methodologies and Ethics
WHO? Kelsey Deane
This session offers participants the opportunity to value training when using non-peer mentors as a mean to prepare them to work with people from vulnerable groups. It will provide a learning process and tools to make the training interactive and more meaningful.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Socio-cultural diversity
WHO? Joana Portugal
Dos experiencias sobre menores en riesgo de exclusión social includes two different project presentations in Spanish.
This workshop will present the results of two different projects that work with youngsters under government protection (from foster care homes) in Spanish. Izeba project will share results in terms of improving the wellbeing of the minors, while Sapere Aude Project will share their results in terms of improving the educational results.
LANGUAGE: Spanish