Constantza Romania 1 – 3 June 2011 CENTRAS CONSTANTZA – THE VOLUNTEERING CENTRE Sharing Experience Workshop: "Volunteer Mentoring as an Efficient and Effective Adult Learning Strategy – Lessons Learned and Best Practice from Romanian Experience" Grundvig Learning Partnership 2010/ participants registration sheet project nr: LLP/AT-430/132/10

Sharing Experience Workshop The workshop is a mobility action organised by CENTRAS Constantza within the Grundtvig Partnership Programme which involves staff, organisations and learners from Romania, Austria, UK, Estonia, Greece and Germany. The goal of this workshop is to promote volunteer mentoring as an efficient and effective adult learning strategy. The seminar will present the mentoring approach of CENTRAS by using young volunteer mentors, and will point out the differences and similarities between the mentoring system used by CENTRAS and other mentoring systems and practices.

European Federation of Mentoring for Girls and Women - Womentor) Established in 2008, in Austria 13 members from 11 different countries - „Projectoffice for innovative social policy“(Austria), “NGO Öökull” (Estonia), „German Association of Women Engineers“(Germany), “Greek women´s engineering association” (Greece), „International Zonta Jelgava Club (Latvia), „Regional Centre for Sustainable Rural Development” (Romania), „Inova“ (United Kingdom), People to People International – Chapter Plovdiv(Bulgaria), Club Young Scientists ( Bulgaria), Association Filia (Czech Republic), Mädchenzentrum Café Dauerwelle ( Germany), Euro-net (Italy) and Balkaya Youth And Sports Club Associate( Turkey). MISSION: Promoting gender equality through mentoring.

NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE Mission Supporting development of the civil society in Romania Services Information dissemination Training Consulting and technical assistance Networking Main target groups NGO representatives Individuals and informal groups in communities, including youngsters

NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE WHAT THE VOLUNTEERING CENTRE DOES Yearly campaigns to promote volunteerism Recruiting around 100 volunteers each year Training volunteers Providing NGOs with volunteer human resource Supporting volunteers’ initiatives

Youngsters empowerment -Helping youngsters to acquire a self-confidence, so that they are able to join / to take part / to get involved / to take action in the benefit of the community -training -counselling -mentoring NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE

Who are our volunteers? Survey of 300 young volunteers

Our volunteers Why youngsters want to volunteer The desire to help other people The opportunity of testing their future job Improving their CV Achieving experience in a certain field The opportunity to meet other people and to make new friends The opportunity to put in practice their ideas and values The opportunity to travel (even abroad)

Male 5% Female 95% NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE

NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERINGCENTRE

NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERINGCENTRE

NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE

NGO REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTRE Constantza CONSTANTZA VOLUNTEERING CENTRE

Our volunteers Other languages: German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Russian

YOUNGSTERS IN ORPHANAGES Main issue: Youngsters lack motivation for life

Situation of mentoring

CENTRAS’ mentoring system CENTRAS’ mentoring system is designed to cope with the main issue the youngsters in the orphanages are facing: Youngsters lack motivation for life because they lack life skils