🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
Mentoring for Impact: Supporting Volunteers Beyond the Project
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Training Course
19-23 October 2026 | Bucharest, Romania
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❗️What Is This Training About?
Mentoring for Impact is a training course for mentors, coordinators, and youth workers involved in European Solidarity Corps projects who want to strengthen the long-term impact of mentoring and better support volunteers beyond the project experience.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
Volunteering experiences can be life-changing. Their impact often depends on how well they are supported, reflected and connected to what comes next.
Would you like to increase the impact of mentoring on personal and professional development and growth, social integration and civic engagement? Would you like to strengthen your mentoring practice and help volunteers turn their experience into meaningful next steps?
If you are working with volunteers and wondering how to better prepare them for the life after their project, we invite you to join “Mentoring for Impact: Supporting Volunteers Beyond the Project”, a training course focussing on impactful mentoring in ESC projects.
During this international training course, you will explore how mentoring can go beyond day-to-day support and become a meaningful process that helps volunteers understand their learning, navigate transitions and shape their future pathways.
You will work on three interconnected areas:
supporting volunteers’ learning and helping them recognize their competences
supporting volunteers’ well-being, especially during moments of change and transition
supporting volunteers in connecting their experience to their values, identity and future direction
A special focus of the training will be on how mentors can help volunteers translate their ESC experience into concrete personal and professional steps after the project.
During the training, we will:
explore ways to strengthen the impact of mentoring in your projects
practice mentoring conversations
work with tools for reflection, learning and future planning
Of course, there will also be time and space to connect and network with other mentoring practitioners working in ESC projects, share stories and experiences, and build a shared understanding of impactful mentoring.
At the end of the training, you will receive a Youthpass certificate.
Who can participate in the Training Course?
Mentors, coordinators, and youth workers involved in European Solidarity Corps (ESC) projects who want to better support volunteers beyond the project experience
Participants who are motivated to actively engage, share their experience, and learn from others
Participants who feel confident to work in English
Participants who are committed to attend the full duration of the course
Date & Place
The training will take place in Romania, 20.-24.07.2026.
19 October - Arrivals
20 –22 October Trainig, three full days
23 October - 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.
Training overview
This Training Course is
for 30 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
, Partner Countries Neighbouring the EU
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth project managers, Volunteering mentors, Youth researchers, Mentors, project manager and coordinators, trainers and authors, researchers within the European Solidarity Corps
Accessibility info:
This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
Romanian National Agency (National Agency)
Co-organiser(s):
- SALTO ESC (SALTO Resource Centre)
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Sebastian Ologu
E-Mail:
Phone: 000
💶 Costs
Participation fee
This project is financed by the participating National Agencies (NAs) of the European Solidarity Corps.
Please contact your National Agency or SALTO Resource Centre (SALTO) to learn more about the participation fee for participants from your country.
Accommodation and food
Unless specified otherwise, the hosting NA or SALTO of this offer will organise the accommodation and covers the costs for accommodation and food.
Travel reimbursement
Please contact your NA or SALTO in order to know whether they would support your travel costs. If yes, after being selected, get in touch with your NA or SALTO again to learn more about the overall procedure to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.
📜 Certificate
https://youthworkshub.org/what-is-youthpass
⚠️ Important Dates
Application deadline (24h UTC): 6 September 2026
Date of selection: 18 September 2026
🔗 Official Link
⚠️ Important Notice
Youth Works Hub is not the organiser, partner, or representative of the listed projects. This listing is shared for information only, based on details from the source. Deadlines, eligible countries, dates, and other details may change or be withdrawn at any time, and all funding, reimbursements, and allowances are set by the project coordinator or National Agency. Applications go directly to the coordinator or hosting organisation through the official link. Listings may include third-party links (ESC Portal, infopacks, forms) that Youth Works Hub does not control. Always verify the details on the official project page before applying.
