Erasmus+ MAB project

What’s the Erasmus+ MAB project?

The Erasmus+ MAB (Mentoring Across Borders) project aims to support, through lifelong learning, the educational, professional and personal development of people.
In fact, it reaches this goal by developing, testing and validating an intergenerational, cross-border mentoring program occurring between older, experienced people (mentors, 50+) and young mentees (18-30y.o.) at risk of marginalization.
Erasmus+ MAB project builds on the successful outcomes of the Erasmus+ EvolYou project by enhancing its best practices and transferring its innovation on a pan-European level by:

  • Redefining, improving and formalizing the mentoring methodology.
  • Setting-up a pan-European mentoring network, comprised of voluntary or senior associations and NGOs across Europe, that will act as Mentoring Hubs between mentors and mentees.
  • Developing a web-based Mentoring Platform, to facilitate the onboarding of participants (organizations, mentors, mentees) to the mentoring program and enable cross-country matching between mentors and mentees.
  • Implementing and evaluating the proposed mentoring program for at least six months with the involvement of 120 mentors and 120 mentees from East and Southern European countries (Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania and Poland). In these countries  the impact of the program on improving the employability of youngsters will be more evident.
  • Achieving pan-European visibility of the project, to promote active citizenship of older people and advocate on the benefits of the proposed approach for young adults (NEETs) to policy makers and stakeholders across Europe.

The NGO involved in this project

Through the partnership of Western, Eastern and Southern European organizations, the project provides an excellent opportunity for participating organizations to exchange experiences and best practices with peer organizations across Europe.
In fact, the aim is to increase the quality and relevance of their activities, develop and reinforce their networks of partners and increase their capacity to operate at transnational level.

Erasmus+ MAB project involve two main types of organizations:

  • Three pan-European networks of NGOs (CESES, AGE and CEV) and one local network (VOLTO) focused on supporting and promoting their members’ work on active aging and volunteering, with a reach of over 200 member organizations combined.
  • Nine NGOs (50plus, SES, SENIORES, VSP, CTAO, ZNANIE, ONKENTES, WOLONTARIAT, AULEDA) providing services related to active aging and volunteering in their countries, with long experience in organizing and successfully implementing of similar activities.

Below you can see the countries involved in this project:

For more information on this project, visit the website www.eumentoring.eu