Seminar
22-26 June 2026 | St. Pölten, Austria
Explore and shape together with us the landscape of mentoring within the European Solidarity Corps. Join our annual seminar/networking event on how to create a supportive and inclusive environment with reinforced mentorship.
Mentoring under Construction Community Event is the annual international seminar/networking event of Mentoring under Construction. As a community we support practitioners that are passionate about mentoring and would like to shape the landscape of mentoring within the European Solidarity Corps together with us. Mentoring under Construction is powered by SALTO ESC Resource Centre in a partnership with Irish and Romanian National Agencies. We are inviting mentors, project coordinators, trainers to an international seminar focusing on the quality of mentoring within the European Solidarity Corps programme.
Our main focus this year is creating supportive and inclusive environments with reinforced mentorship.
Main objectives
- Connect with professionals in the field of mentoring from all over Europe and share good practices and relevant resources
- Exploring approaches and good practices on how to set up supportive and inclusive environments for volunteers with reinforced mentorship.
- Identify further steps for working and supporting each other
Profile of participants
- People interested in developing the quality in mentoring within the European Solidarity Corps programme: mentors, project manager and coordinators, trainers and authors of tools on mentoring
- Mentoring practitioners from organisations with experience with or who are just starting getting into inclusion and reinforced mentorship.
- Various levels of experience: newcomers and advanced mentoring practitioners are very welcome to apply.
- Ability to communicate in English
- Participation in the whole duration of the event in St. Pölten, Austria
We encourage participation of mentoring practitioners with diverse abilities.
Date & place
The seminar will take place in Bildungshaus St. Hippolyt (www.hiphaus.at/hotel) in St. Pölten, Austria (approx. one hour with train from Vienna Airport)
22 June: Arrivals
23-25 June: Seminar, three full days of programme
26 June: Departures
The Mentoring under Construction Community
The Mentoring under Construction Community is open for everyone who is interested in raising the quality in mentoring within European Solidarity Corps programme (and beyond): mentors, including those, who just embark into this journey and those, who mentor other mentors, project managers/organisers developing and implementing volunteering projects, coordinators of volunteers, facilitators of learning, authors and trainers creating tools and resources about mentoring, and last, but not least, members of National Agencies and SALTO Resource Centres.
The Mentoring under Construction Community aims at:
- building a common understanding of key concepts around the role of a mentor (role, responsibilities, competences) as well as how to develop and implement mentoring programmes within volunteering organisations,
- developing personal and professional competence to keep up with the emerging challenges in the field of mentoring,
- sharing knowledge, resources and good practices,
- building a vibrant network of people engaged in mentoring, ready to support one another, learn and develop.
More information at: SALTO