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DEVELOPMENT OF A VALIDATION FRAMEWORK FOR MENTORING:
EVALUATING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF DISABLED AND DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE
 VALIDATION OF MENTORING

BG/05/C/F/TH-83300

This is a transnational project funded under measure C, thematic actions, within the framework of the Leonardo da Vinci programme of the EC. The main goal of the project is to support the work career of young disabled people through development and validation of mentoring programmes. The project creates three new programmes for disabled people in Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia. The project activities assist the understanding of disability among employers and trainers.

THE PROJECT OBJECTIV: To create a new procedure for validation of mentoring programmes as a successful instrument for informal education for disabled or other disadvantaged people.

THE PROJECT SPECIFIC AIMS :
1. To identify and evaluate key features of existing mentoring programmes in order to establish the range and variety of:
- Anticipated outcomes
- Systems used to achieve these aims, including selection and induction of mentees and mentors, training for mentees and mentors, monitoring procedures,
- Any systems for validation and recognition of the outcomes achieved by mentoring
2. To implement and adapt the mentoring programmes in Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia according to national and cultural specifics of the countries
3. To test and assess the validation systems in order that they may be improved
4. To present a proposal  for successful usage of the mentoring programmes and their validation according to the needs of the target groups.
5. To test, evaluate these validation systems and, in response to the outcomes, revise and enhance them for broad use.
6. To develop proposals for the use of mentoring and for its validation, in relation to the needs of other people disadvantaged in the labour market.
7. To identify best practices of  mentoring  schemed designed for disabled and disadvantaged people across Europe

TARGET GROUP: Employers, Disabled people, Other people disadvantaged in the open labour market

TARGET SECTORS: Service sector,  IT Sector, Restaurants & Hotels

BENEFICIARIES: Employers, including personnel/human resources staff; Disabled people; Other disadvantaged people at the labour market; Careers advisors; Policy makers

RESULTS:
A special website with relevant information available in project languages - English, Bulgarian, Romanian, Slovenian and Greek;
Questionnaires targeted at different focus groups in different countries in order to analyze the needs of the users;
Paper-based, CD-ROM and Internet-based materials of Mentoring package translated in Romanian and Slovenian and adapted to different focus groups;
Internet and paper-based guide for validation criteria and procedures in each language;
Mentoring schemes, developed specifically for disabled people and other disadvantaged groups;
Codes of practice in English and Bulgarian in the form of case studies;
Internet and paper-based guide for validation of mentoring in each language.

PARTNERS:
1. contractor –MARIE CURIE ASSOCIATION     
BULGARIA, Plovdiv 4000,
9А Magura street ,
Tel: +359 32 622128
Fax:+359 32 628890
e-mail: info@marie-curie-bg.org

2.  EUROCONSULTING Ltd.
4000 Plovdiv, BULGARIA
10, “11 August” Street
tel: + 359 32 627 342
e-mail: euroconsulting@evrocom.net

3. MUNICIPALITY OF SLIVEN
Citizen Information and Administrative Services Center,
1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd.  Sliven 8800 (the Municipality Building),
tel.: 044/611102 044/662162, tel./fax: 044/662350

4. e-ISIOTIS
40 Klitaimnistras
Athens 131 22, Greece
Phone:+30 210 2693760
Fax:+30 210 2693775
e-mail: mv@e-isotis.org

5. Association "H Foundation"
6 Poenaru Bordea Street, sector 4,
RO-040093, Bucharest, Romania
tel: +40 721 255692
fax: +40 21 3371019
e-mail: office@fundatiah.ro

6. Dobrovita Plus, SL Dobrovita Plus d.o.o.
Ob Ljubljanici 36a, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
Tel: ++386(0)1 54 42 400,
Fax: ++386(0) 54 42 401
e-mail: info@dobrovita.com

7. ŠENT - The Slovenian Association for Mental Health
Cigaletova 5
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
tel: 00386 1 230 78 30
fax:00386 1 230 78 38
mail: info@sent-si.org

8. Department for Social Pedagogy, Faculty of Education in Ljubljana, University of Ljubljana
University of Ljubljana Departament of Social Pedagogy
Kardeljeval ploscad 16
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
Tel: + 386 1 589 22 00

9. French and Burt Ltd
Fosse Cottage, Eathorpe
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
CV33 9DE, United Kingdom
e-mail: david@eathorpe.demon.co.uk
tel. ++44 (0)1926 632575
fax ++44 08700 5168333

more details: www.validation-mentoring.org

"This project has been funded with the support of European Commission in the framework of the Leonardo da Vinci program. The content of this website reflects only the partnership view and the Commision cannot hold responsability for any use of the information contained therein."

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