Gloria Amoruso
Biography
Gloria Amoruso is a social entrepreneur and social scientist and has been involved in the field of mentoring in various roles since 2010: as a mentor, a coordinator, a founder, a networker and a researcher. Gloria is based in Berlin (Germany), where she founded the mentoring organisation “kein Abseits! e.V.” (www.kein-abseits.de) in 2011 working with disadvantaged youth. Gloria has received several awards for her work including the Medal of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Gloria also co-founded the Berlin Mentoring Network in 2012 (www.kipa-berlin.de) as well as the Umbrella Organisation for Social Mentoring in Germany in 2022 (bundesverband-mentoring.social) and has been one of the board members of the “Bundesverband” ever since. Gloria initiated and contributed to several projects with the aims of promoting the power of mentoring, fostering skill and knowledge sharing among experts in the mentoring field, researching the effects of mentoring programmes and how to deploy good quality practice in mentoring. Gloria co-organised and facilitated the European Mentoring Summit in Berlin (2018) and has presented her work and research at previous events.
@Picture taken by Bernd Wannenmacher.
Session
Wednesday April 24th