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Grundtvig Learning Partnership Project
"Mentor Development Programmes: Transforming learners into educators supported by e-communication tools”
French Project No.: 2009-1-DE2-GRU06-018176
Duration : 1. August 2009 – 31. July 2011
Project Blog : www.mentordevelopment.blogspot.com
Partner Organisations:
Network Migration in Europe, www.network-migration.org (Antje Scheidler)
Association of Disabled Women ONE.PL, www.one-pl.pl (Magda Szarota)
Humanity in Action France, www.humanityinaction.org (Tara Dickmann)
Cercle Passeport Télécoms, www.passeport-telecoms.com (Benjamin Blavier)
Humanity in Action Germany, www.humanityinaction.org (Anne Stalfort, Frithjof Wodarg, Ulla Bisgaard)
Fundation Critical Mass, www.criticalmass.nu (Bas Gadiot and Eline van der Noord)
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Goals and expected results:
Six European organisations cooperate in the Learning Partnership
“"Mentor Development Programmes: Transforming learners into educators
supported supported by e-communication tools”. The partners already -
on a small scale – use mentor development and mentoring programmes as a
tool to increase learners´ participation and sustainability of adult
education. During the learning partnership they exchange best
practices, identify successful core elements and learn about e-tools to
support mentor development and mentoring programmes and make them more
accessible to learners with special needs. These e-tools include online
learning platforms, web conferences, blogs etc.
The
partner organisations take turns in hosting meetings and present best
practices of mentoring programmes they (or cooperation partners in the
country) are experienced with. The identified transferable elements of
successful programmes will subsequently be shared with co-staffers and
learners in each partner organisation and implemented. Special
attention will be paid to e-tools allowing inclusion of learner
communities with special needs, i.e. in rural areas, with mobility
problems, with a migrant background, and/or in need of more flexible
learning schedules.
The
work progress is accompanied by the compilation of “mentor development
success stories” with the title “How I became a mentor”. The success
stories are developed in cooperation with learners, who are in the
process to become a mentor within a partner organisation.
The
success stories will be published online and in the partners´
newsletters, as well as edited as pdf-booklet which is send to
cooperation partners interested in mentoring programmes. The project
also reaches out to wider learners´ audiences by involving the success
story protagonists as multiplicators who disseminate the results using
their own communication channels.
The overall goals of the learning partnership are:
a) development of innovative practices and services in adult learning
b) more sustainability of educational services of the participating organisations
c) long-lasting participation opportunities for the learners of the participating organisations
d) better services and easier access for learners with special needs
The chosen approach to reach these goals is: Transforming learners into educators through mentor development programmes.
The concrete steps to reach the goals are:
Step 1: Identify successful mentoring and mentor development programmes
Step 2: Identify successful e-tools supporting these programmes
Step 3: Identify transferable core elements for success
Step 4: Implement these elements in the partner organizations in
cooperation with learners who are in the process to become a mentor
within a partner organisation ´
Step 5: Enable these future mentors to become protagonists of a “success story”
Step 6: Disseminate the “success stories” to learners´ communities and other educational organisations.
All info on the project blog: wwww.mentordevelopment.blogspot.com