Validating Mentoring 2 (VM2) is a continuation of 3 successful previous LdV projects: ‘EODPE’, ‘Validation of mentoring’ and ‘Access to professional training for people with disabilities’. It aims to build on the achievements of these projects.The current project will respond to the needs of disabled people and other disadvantaged in the job market by developing systems for the recognition of their non-formal and informal learning. This is particularly important for the representatives of these groups because, compared to their peers, they lack formal qualifications and this diminishes their employability.By establishing new mentoring programmes for disabled people, older people and young people at risk in 3 countries, the project will transfer the principles and practices of effective, high quality, mentoring and validation, based on the Code of Practice for Mentoring, which was developed within the first Validation of Mentoring project. In support for the transfer, VM2 will elaborate and evaluate comprehensive systems for the self-assessment of mentoring programmes.