The Mentoring Across Borders project supports educational, professional and personal development through an intergenerational, cross-border mentoring programme. The project has developed a platform to facilitate the engagement of mentors and mentees.
Are you eligible?
In order to become a mentor in the MAB project a person should have the following characteristics:
- Be at least 50 years of age, focusing on retired people and on those close to retirement in order to facilitate active ageing;
- Be interested in offering voluntary professional mentoring to younger people;
- Have current availability;
- Have skills as close as possible to the mentee’s training needs;
- In general, a senior professional willing to be active in society;
- Have a generally positive and optimistic outlook on the world and life, so as to be able to adequately motivate the mentee;
- Have good listening skills;
- Have good dialogue skills, to bring out solutions that the mentee may already have inherent within themselves, but are unable to express.
- Be available to provide feedback continuously throughout the learning process.
To participate in the Mentoring Across Borders project as a mentee, a person should:
- Be between 18 and 30 years old;
- Have struggled in some way in their field of work or during their studies;
- Be currently available and willing to receive mentoring;
- Be determined to make a regular commitment over time.
