1. WoMentor
Gender Equality through Mentoring
November 2012

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

3. 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

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

5. Main Activities
• 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

6. 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.

7. EVS projects :
Gender Equality through EVS
Volunteering in learning organizations and
communities

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. • 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)

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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.

17. 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).

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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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22. 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).

23. Astrid
Keywords for my Service
Writing projects Getting involved in Meeting new people and
Working in a local community Sharing experience
international Learning
Federation
More about my EVS : www.evswomentor.blogspot.com

24. 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

25. Thank you for your time !