Organiser: CENTRAS Constantza
Date: 1-4 June 2011
Place: Constantza, Romania
"Volunteer Mentoring as an Efficient and Effective
Adult Learning Strategy - Lessons Learned and Best Practice from the
Romanian Experience
The workshop is a mobility action organised by CENTRAS
Constantza within the Grundtvig Partnership Programme which involves
staff, organisations and learners from Romania, Austria, UK, Estonia, Greece and
Germany.
The
goal of this workshop is to promote volunteer mentoring as an efficient
and effective adult learning strategy. The seminar will present the mentoring
approach of CENTRAS by using young volunteer mentors, and will point out the differences
and similarities between the mentoring system used by CENTRAS and other
mentoring systems and practices. It is expected that the planned results and
outcomes of the Romanian workshop (disseminated to the other project partners) will
contribute to the project in the following way:
Impacts
on the learners:
- Increasing
the exposure to experts in the field of mentoring and expanding the personal
and professional networks;
- Increasing
the confidence that their experiences can provide learning opportunities for others
(others can learn from their experiences).
Impacts
on the staff of the partner organisations:
- Increasing
the access to professional networks in the field of mentoring and personal development;
- Accelerating
the learning process by coming in contact with experts in the field who can
teach „short-cuts“ to update the professional knowledge about mentoring
programmes and how to apply them for women;
- Diminishing
the flaws and gaps in the knowledge of the trainers/coordinators and finding ways
to solve these gaps by implementing future
projects and ideas;
- Broadening
the knowledge about mentoring approaches and methods that are effective for
various target groups of women, countries and cultures.
15 participants
from the partner countries and CENTRAS’ staff and learners may take advantage
of this opportunity in order to meet inspiring people (mentors) and discuss
with them personally, to understand the expectations and motivations of our
mentors/mentees and the possible similarities and differences to comparable institutions
in their countries as well as the peculiarities
and difficulties of the Romanian social work.
We hope that the participants will have enough free
time and opportunities to become acquainted to our culture which is an
important value added objective of the Grundtvig Programme.
Location:
Hotel Comandor, at the Romanian Black Sea Shore. (http://www.unita-turism.ro/en/hotel/mamaia/comandor.html)
Contact person:
Ionica Bucur
Mobile Phone: 0040-744-332683
