The Mentoring Across Borders (MAB) project aims to favour the active inclusion of young people aged 18-30 into the labour market and consequently in society. Reaching this objective is made easier through a training path of involvement of senior expert volunteers as mentors in an intergenerational mentoring environment.
The MAB methodology is a mentoring process valid in Europe, focused on social inclusion and that can favour the approach of disadvantaged younger people to the world of employment, improve the level of their key competencies and skills – particularly those related to the professional field, but also those related to their overall successful integration in society – through the involvement of older expert volunteers in an intergenerational mentoring relationship that can be maintained from the medium to long term.
The methodology, which has to be implemented through a strict collaboration between sectors of education, training and business, is aimed at promoting the active inclusion of disadvantaged young people into the labour market as well as into the training system.
At the end of the mentorship, mentees are expected to be able to individually achieve a set of goals, such as passing difficult exams, completing their vocational training and/or being put in a position of equal opportunities in order to compete on an equal footing with other candidates for a desired job position.
