The partnership consists of 8 organisations from 8 countries: Romania, Switzerland, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Norway and Slovakia.
 

Summary: LeGMe, a 2-year learning partnership project comprising eight organisations from different European countries, aims to prepare the human and pedagogical resources for the partners to be able to establish effective mentoring programmes in support of their respective communities' adults and young children with a view to empowering them for meaningful, responsible contribution to the community's welfare. Essentially, we will provide learning opportunities for adults (mentors and mentors’ coaches) to enable them to better support successful non-formal education. Our partnership will facilitate sharing mentoring programme experiences and effective practices among European colleagues. By supporting each other within the partnership, we will create coaching programmes for mentors in each partner organisation. LeGMe will develop mentor support / coaching programmes tailored to the needs of diverse categories of mentees, and a guidebook for mentors and mentor programme coordinators. In the mentoring programmes we will engage those adults who have time to allocate to mentoring: pensioners, unemployed people, college students, etc., who thus will gain the sense of contributing to the community's welfare by being pro-active in meeting the needs of their communities as responsible adults, which is a significant dimension of adults along their life.  The outputs of our project will include findings of an analysis of existing mentoring programmes for disenfranchised groups in the partner countries, a common frame and guidelines for building mentors’ coaching programmes; and eight tailored coaching programmes. The results and outcomes of our project will be disseminated to relevant interested stakeholders who will thus be inspired to adopt the mentor coaching models we will develop.

 

Duration: 1^st of August 2013 – 31^st of July 2015.

 

Target groups: adults who have time to allocate to mentoring: pensioners, unemployed people, college students etc., mentors’ coaches.

 

Goal: prepare the human and pedagogical resources for the partners to be able to establish effective mentoring programmes in support of their respective communities' adults and young children with a view to empowering them for meaningful, responsible contribution to the community's welfare.

Objectives:

Types of activities: Collect existing mentoring programmes for disenfranchised young children and youth, and analyze mentors’ training/ coaching programme; develop the common frame and guidelines for building mentors’ coaching programmes; develop the coaching program in each partner organisation, by filling the frame, observing the guidelines to obtain relevant coaching programmes for the category of mentors available in each organisation; test the mentors’ coaching programs, with on-going monitoring and evaluation of the coaching programmes and e-learning support; based on evaluation results, revise and finalise each organisation's specific mentor coaching programme; dissemination and valorization of the project’s results.

 

Deliverables and outcomes:

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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