Gender Equality through Mentoring

November 2012

WoMentor

WoMentor was established in 2008 in Austria within a Youth in Action project. It has 14 members from 10 different countries

Aims

• Promote principles/policies of equal opportunities

• Promote social change through working with

individuals and their communities

• Fighting stereotypes/stereotypical thinking

• Support “decent” employment opportunities

• Empower girls and women

• Exchange information, know-how, good practice

Values

• Active participation and cooperation• Share of know-how• Gender sensitive • No discrimination• Value diversity• Confidentiality • Mutual respect and mutually beneficial• Focus on strengths

• Support – Network – Lobbying

• Members – Participants – Girls - Women

• Common projects: EU - International

• Research, Dissemination and Public Relations

• To force and support the participation of (young) women

Main Activities

Recent projects

European Guidelines for Mentoring Programmes

A Guideline for Setting up and Running Mentoring Programmes with a Special Focus on Mentoring for Girls and Young Women

WE:MENTOR - Lifelong Learning Grundtvig 

2010-2012

The project brought together experienced programme coordinators 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.

EVS projects :

Gender Equality through EVS

Volunteering in learning organizations and communities

Recent Activities • Lobbying and EVS Organization - CO,SE,HO • Master Work Irene Kudi - Intercultural Competence in social projects “WoMentor goes East” • Presentation WoMentor/ We:Mentor • Trainings, Meetings, Conferences -YiA Austria, BG,

Members and Project Partner• EVS

Future projects

“YES- Young entrepreneurs start”

Key words : European training programme/ European Handbook , combine mentoring/ entrepreneurship, higher education institutes,

young women / educators, stimulate an innovative and entrepreneurial mind-set, sustainable and greener SME

“2014 - EP for Young Women “

Key words : democracy project , gender issues , young women, raising awareness and sharing information , PR / dissemination

“Gender equality through mentoring” Key words : gender inequality, gender gap, mentoring, research,

european volunteering service

Future projects

“WE:OSH”

01/01/2013 -31/12/2013-Participants :Greece; Austria; Latvia; Romania-Target Group : women workers in industries, women engineers and female students in engineering departments -Topics: gender equality; women's occupational safety and health; civil organisations development - Activities : Reasearch- Webpage- Seminars- Workshops- Int. Conference

What can you gain If you join our Federation What can We offer

Possibility to be part of the European Network

Be our project partners

Exchange of good practise and know-how

Be our research partners

Benefit from our lobbying and PR- activities

Get contact with mentors, mentees, trainers, coaches 

• Counselling about Project Management and  writing project proposals

• Access to WoMentor homepage and its inner documents and possibility to promote their own activities and identity there (members can post information and create sub-pages); also possible a technical support and training about how to use the webpage and work with it (only for members)

• Access and support to use the WoMentor Handbook and other future publications of the Federation for their work and training

• Reduced prices for WoMentor Service (Coaching, Mentoring, Project Management, participation in Trainings and Workshops)

European Voluntary Service (EVS)- what’s that?

* is a fantastic opportunity for young people aged 18 (by the start date of the project activity) to 30 years to carry out a period of full-time voluntary

service abroad from two to 12 months.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?

• Gain confidence and independence• Experience a different culture• Learn new skills and develop competencies• Contribute to the local host community• Enhance employability (Youthpass certificate on completion)• Mobility

HOW MUCH IT WILL COST?

For the volunteer : Is free. Travel, accommodation, food and insurance are all covered by an European grant except 10 %

from the international travel costs.

You will even receive a small personal allowance each month.

For the hosting / sending organisation : Any cost linked to the implementation of the project that are not covered by the

European grant

HOW TO GET STARTED AND BECOME AN EVS VOLUNTEER?

Step 1: Finding a sending organisation

You will need to register with an accredited EVS sending organisation .

The European database on EVS accredited organisations

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm

Step 2: Choosing a host project

There is a huge range of EVS placements across Europe and beyond. Project themes include: Youth, sport, culture, social care,

environment and more.

Volunteering in learning organisations and communities

The project is  implemented within Youth in Action Programme, Action 2 - European Voluntary Service.

The project is implemented in partnership with The European Federation of Mentoring for Girls and Young Women (Austria), Amals Kommun / Europa Direkt Fyrbodal (Sweden) and Gaziantep Training and Youth

Association (Turkey).  

The EVS stages are taking place in  Turkey, Austria and Sweden for a period of four months (1 st of august – 31 november 2012).

My experience in Graz

My host organisation helped me to avoid “ the nightmare of free time” *by facilitating my integration in the local community*by introducing me to the beautiful city GRAZ *by creating opportunities for meeting other people with similar age or similar interests

Personal / professional support

I received enough help and support in order to overcome or prevent any difficulties regarding my personal live and in my activities in the organisation.

My Mentor : the person who can support me, frame what is happening in times of troubles and give me some advice when i needed

What i gained until now during my EVS project :

- Improve my knowledge in English and started to learn German language- The opportunity to work in an intercultural and friendly work environment- Support from professional mentor and board members- Support for implementing my ideas

- New contacts in at least 10 different countries- Experience of volunteering in an European Federation

- Knowledge about how to create and implement projects- Knowledge how to do public relations and dissemination- Knowledge about European programs and funding opportunities

- Experience in fundraising- Knowledge about main issues concerning girls, women and mentoring

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Astrid

The project is  implemented within Youth in Action Programme, Action 2 - European Voluntary Service.

The project is implemented in partnership with The European Federation of Mentoring for Girls and Young

Women (Austria) and NGO Öökull (Estonia).  

The EVS is taking place in  Graz, Austria for a period of s one year (5th March 2012 – 5th March 2013).

Astrid

Keywords for my Service

Writing projects Getting involved in Meeting new people and Working in a local community Sharing experienceinternational LearningFederation

More about my EVS : www.evswomentor.blogspot.com

Where can You find us ?

Roseggerkai 5/17 8010 Graz ,Austria

Phone + fax: +43 316 890483

Mobile +43 664 34 057 43

hello@womentor.eu

www.womentor.eu

http://www.facebook.com/wo.mentor.1

https://twitter.com/We_Mentor

https://twitter.com/WoMentor_2008

Thank you for your time !