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TANDEM Now! Mentoring through Role Models for Migrant Youth and Youth from Ethnic Minorities

Young people gain huge benefit from successful role models in their family or within their close social circle. This can facilitate career planning, support, and professional development. However, young people who have migrant backgrounds or who are from ethnic minorities are not always fortunate to have such role models due to migration or barriers faced within their community.Mentors are meant to support these youngsters especially by their own example in the education and training phase, the latter being very important for their future career. In order to be able to recrute mentors from the respective culture group, suitable training as well as supporting material proved to be crucial for the mentors.TANDEM NOW promoted technological developments by introducing ICT as a means of communication into the mentoring process, making use of the Blended-Mentoring method. Thus, the mentoring sessions are structured and flexible and – by using internet and social media - not restricted by time or geography.TANDEM NOW is based on the experience and the results/products of the initial project TANDEM and contributed to the training of mentors with best practice examples. The products were adapted to the needs of the young migrants and to the respective regional contexts.GOs and NGOs, public authorities, potential multipliers in the fields of (adult) education and VET, teachers, trainers and other staff involved in aspects of lifelong learning showed interest in implementing the TANDEM NOW method in their vocational counselling and training programmes giving hope that the latter will be financially secured in the long term.
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