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BMW - Be a Mentor in the Workplace

Europe is facing the problem of population aging, which is on the top of the EC 2020 Strategies. According to Eurostat EU27 active population is about 58 million people aged 50-60, representing almost 25% of all actives, when 22% of aged 5-24 are unemployed.People are living healthy longer lives, which opens large opportunities to continue working and having important roles in the world of work. By the other hand, is visible a lack of vocational skills from the younger population including the new comers to world of work, wanting to increase their work performance, be creative, competitive, provoking improvements in their companies, increasing their employability, going up in their careers. After 2012 European Year for Active Aging, this is faced as a challenge which opens also many opportunities of lifelong learning for the people involved, articulated with the urgent need of raising productivity and economic performance. Older active population possess an important knowledge and skills capital which can be potentiated through an inter-generational process of transferring skills and accompanying younger active population in their jobs and careers within SMEs which are a strong pillar of the employer system in Europe. Be a Mentor in the Workplace is a project which promotes, widely speaking, the development of mentoring skills, under the perspective of work based lifelong learning, of both mentors and mentees, envisaging a strong impact in the enterprises and SMEs where both work, regarding the productivity and quality enhancement, the improvement of organization and intergeneration climate, job satisfaction and motivation and valorisation of the target-groups by adopting new models of learning in the workplace and the use of ICT facilities. The project consists in the transfer of already existing and validated tools and methodologies, adapted, tested, validated and implemented in new target-groups. Through this transfer process, the project will develop a new ICT based framework for setting up Mentoring in SME's, a methodology for certifying Mentors, including an innovative course for mentors, an innovative guide for oriented the Mentee in an effective mentoring relationship and an ICT based training for becoming an e-Mentor including a feed-back system to evaluate the mentoring system/results and the mentoring relationship, envisaging the mainstreaming of those tools within Education and Training Systems in each country. The consortium envisages contributing to promote work-based lifelong learning more close to the needs of increasing economic performance and competitiveness of SMEs with a strong multiplying effect throughout Europe.
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