CyberWoMentor

is a virtuell Mentoring Programm for Girls and Women. More information in english will be available soon.

WE:MENTOR

The project WE:MENTOR brings together experienced programme co-ordinators and less experienced co-ordinators of mentoring programmes (particularly focused on women) together in order to share knowledge and best practice in order to increase the potential quality of programmes provided for both mentors and mentees.
Main aim is to encourage participants to combine their new knowledge of these methods and ideas for future activities and implement them in new lifelong learning projects. A series of practical workshops will run throughout the partnership, facilitated by partners with the most experience in that particular field. Possibilities like mentoring volunteers, ICT tools for future mentors and program leaders will be introduced and encouraged them to use these tools and therefore bring more innovation and variety into the field of mentoring.
The project has the potential to lead to greater European co-operation between mentoring co-ordinators and their organisations, mentors and female mentees across Europe. Through sharing knowledge and experiences gained in different countries and cultures, the partnership will also develop greater awareness of the cultural experiences of mentors and female mentees across Europe which will hopefully lead to greater understanding of differences as strengths.
Visit us also on our project website: http://www.wementor.eu.
Project T- shirts available on:  http://projectoffice.spreadshirt.at/

Womentor Guidelines

This guideline has been produced by the WOMENTOR project, a project carried out by the WOMENTOR association, looking for networking and establishing European structures for mentoring focusing on girls and young women. This guideline is intended to be used by organisations / institutions and professionals who want to establish a (public) mentoring programme.
The handbook describes the general approach as well as the different phases needed for setting up a mentoring programme.
Most of the descriptions and details herein can be used in virtually any mentoring context, yet the special focus of mentoring is on mentoring for girls and young women.
Visit us also on our project website and download the guidelines: http://www.womentor.eu/projects-4/guidelines-projectsand-standards

Kids Strengths

Background and Purpose: The prevalence of mental illness is constantly increasing, depression will become the 2nd largest cause of the global health burden by 2020 (WHO) with major impacts on children and families (3-11% "forgotten" children). Improving the mental health and well-being of children and young people is one of the 5 priorities set out in the EU Pact for Mental Health at the EU high level in 6/2008.
In almost no EU country "forgotten children" are included in formal training programs of professionals in diverse bio-psycho-social sectors. However a mental vulnerability of a parent always can be seen as a source of chronic distress and increased own vulnerability for young children. In terms of prevention KIDS`STRENGTHS transfers available EU training knowledge (Lets talk about children, Fostering Resilience) and tools (e.g. online resource pools like www.precious.at) into different bio-psycho-social sectors and countries (AT; DE; ES; FI, HU, PT; SK; TR and EN) and also offers peer-oriented online-skill training and a platform for children themselves to express their worries and find support.
Visit us also on our project website: http://www.strong-kids.eu/index.php?menupos=0

CISESK

Certification of Civil Services non formal and informal Skills Transfer -CISESK focuses on the transfer, European mainstreaming and exploitation of the results of CSA – Civil Service Apprenticeship, a Leonardo Da Vinci pilot project that produced a methodology and a software for assessing and certifying non formal and informal learning deriving from Voluntary Civil Service experiences. CISESK aims to build and mainstream a tool to be used within the European Voluntary Service (EVS) field.  EVS is actually considered as an opportunity for training and professional mobility: through non formal/informal (NF/I)  learning experiences thousands of volunteers all over Europe improve and/or acquire useful competencies for their own personal, educational and professional development as for their social integration, and increase their sense of European citizenship.CISESK  aims to provide Third Sector organisations with tools that make them able to attract more and more youths to such training and professional experience, to foster transnational mobility of volunteers through the start up of a network among Third Sector organisations.CISESK also aims to promote and foster the mobility of volunteers throughout Europe, and it may be posible only through an official and mutual recognition of competencies and experiences acquired in the various EC countries.
Visit us also on our project website: http://www.ciseskproject.eu/

Precious

Professional Resources in Early Childhood Intervention: Online Utilities and Standards. "Early Childhood Intervention"(ECI) is a preventive professional service for children at risk. 1,3 mil. children (age 0-3) are affected either by disability or social disadvantage or migration. To prevent further disability or disadvantage early developmental stimulation services have been established in most of EU27 during the last 2 decades. Visit us also on our project website: http://www.precious.at/

WOMENTOR

European Federation of Mentoring for Girls and Women ( Womentor) was established 2008 in Austria. It has 13 members from 11 different countries- „Projectoffice for innovative social policy“(Austria), “NGO Öökull” (Estonia), „German Association of Women Engineers“(Germany), “Greek women´s engineering association” (Greece), „International Zonta Jelgava Club (Latvia), „Regional Centre for Sustainable Rural Development” (Romania), „Inova“ (United Kingdom), People to People International – Chapter Plovdiv(Bulgaria), Club Young Scientists ( Bulgaria), Association Filia (Czech Republic), Mädchenzentrum Café Dauerwelle ( Germany), Euro-net (Italy) and Balkaya Youth And Sports Club Associate( Turkey). 

The Board of the Federation consists of 7 members, who all work on voluntary basis and are experienced in their own organizations. The mission of Womentor is gender equality through mentoring.
Our values consist of these keywords: active participation, cooperation, share of know-how, gender sensitivity, no discrimination, value diversity, confidentiality, mutual respect, mutually beneficial, focus on strengths.
Main activities for the project:
- presentation of member organisation and their work -interviews, workshops, analyses, surveys, reports and live content (blog etc.) 
- participation in the exchange of informations,- contact other organisations, forward the link to our website to organisations in members countries that are working in the field of supporting girls and young women and want to be presented on the webportal 
- National Research 
- which organisations are supporting the needs of girls/young women,- how do they work 
- how and in which field does mentoring take place,- are there shortcomings – accumulated needs, - promoting the development of a thematic network, - studies about the situation of girls and young women 
According to the national or local circumstances and the target group members where asked to organise one national or local workshop. The workshops focused on important topics in the field of girls’ promotion.
 More information and results on: Webportal www.womentor.eu and on the project website: http://www.womentor.eu/projects-4/womentor-2008-1


RADIO WEB EUROPE

In the framework of Plan D[1] for "Democracy, Dialogue and Debate", the European Commission – DG Communication launched in March 2006 a Call for Proposals[2] - DG COMM A2-1/2006 - in order to support pan-European projects carried out by non-profit civil society organisations aiming at encouraging and promoting dialogue and debate among citizens on EU issues. Radio Web Europe, one of the initiatives selected by the Commission, has been presented by a partnership of 8 organisations from 7 Member States: CENASCA CISL (IT), co-ordinator of the Project; CABA (PT); CECE (ES); CESFOR (IT); MPRC (LT); ProjectOffice (AT); Townfield Training (UK); UHM (MT). The project aims at involving young people and promoting their participation in the debate on the future of Europe.

Thematic Focus Groups, addressed to young citizens in order to stimulate their participation in the debate as representatives of the "European citizenship" and to read the needs of information of young people about European issues (2 Focus Groups each country partner);Multimedia website: www.radiowebeurope.eu that allows real youth participation in the debate about the European issues in web streaming with on line contents (Interviews, Opinions, Analysis, Surveys) or live contents (chat, directed web, etc.). Participants will be able not only to view and download audio/video contents, but also to upload their own multimedia contributions. The contents will be realized in order to allow audio/video podcasting in particular of the contents produced by non-profit civil society organisations. Workshops, organized to encourage and promote youth debates on European topics as provided by the European Commission's Plan D for Democracy, Dialogue and Debate (2 workshops each country partner). Final transnational Conference, to be held in December 2007, that represents an occasion to share experiences among the 7 countries involved in the project. The Project's principal objective is to connect, at different territorial levels, civil society to responsibles for policies, experiencing new ways of involvement of european young people and non-profit civil society organisations. Radio Web Europe represents also a way of integrating the debate taking place on "Debate Europe".

 More information and results on: http://www.radiowebeurope.eu/uk/home/

EQM-PD

EQM-PD defines in cooperation with relevant partners (research, financing bodies, services and persones with disability) quality criteria for five basic modules. These modules reflect key processes within the fields a) education, living, work, leisure-time and counselling concerning persons with disability. Main target group for the curriculum (in terms of further educational programs) are professionals who are directly working with persons with disabilities. The definition of QM-criteria and the creation of an evaluation instrument (online-questionnaire) is an important instrument for the self-assessment of the institution including participative processes of persons with disabilities themselves. 

 More information on:  http://www.eqm-pd.com/

Early support (IFF) for disabled children (400.000 children in the EU) is a holistic method of early intervention and prevention of long term impediment. (Age: 0-6 years) IFF was implemented in the late 70ies in whole of Europe – with a variety of legal, organisational and educational approaches. The persons working in early intervention are coming from different fields, such as e.g. therapeutic pedagogy, (AT, DE), Medicine (LT, IT, EE) or are working in combination with psychosocial services (NO). There is no single European country having a standardized training for

 More information on: http://www.eqm-pd.com/ebiff/

These projects have been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.