My goal is to test if Small Group Life Coaching can be an effective way for young people to develop life skills. If this format proves to be effective it would provide that a valuable service (Life Coaching) could be delivered at a significantly reduced cost. The group meets virtually on a weekly basis and I meet with them individually in between meetings. Group meetings are highly interactive and meant to focus on having deep discussions on topics such as Growth Mindest, Effective Communication, Helping Others, and Current Affairs. One on one meetings are focused on goal setting, goal attainment, accountability, and addressing any life issues that might arise.

I am a 53-year-old father of 3 daughters in their 30's and have been actively mentoring young adults for the past 6 years. My background is eclectic but a significant part of my time has been focused on for-profit entrepreneurship. At the end of 2019, I sold my financial planning practice so that I could dedicate myself to doing my part to make the world a better place. In May of 2019, I started to test pilot a program that involves small group (5-6 young people) life coaching for young adults.

I am working on Tourism Development and Administration with keen interests in Cultural Tourism and Indigenous Innovation.

I am a Lecturer and researcher in Tourism Development. I have degrees in Theatre Arts with PhD in Tourism Development and Administration as my research focus.

Since 2015 I have been involved in mentoring programs which are focused on migrating and young population. For this reason, I am interested in life courses and young foreign people. Also, the research that I am developing revolves around this topic and covers the same population group.
Because of my studies and work experience I have been interested in the mentoring impact since I started to be close of this social intervention methodology. Nowadays, I am working with unaccompanied minors or foreign young people that are turning 18 in Spain. When they turn 18, they start an inconsistent route with a lot of challenges to obtain a viable future because of the lack of institutional and social support. We have been following them up for seven months to see the challenges they face, especially regarding with their psychological distress and wellbeing in this stage of their life. Our initial hypothesis was that the more support they have, the better for them in defining, readjusting and retaking their educational and occupational trajectories in the new country. Moreover, we also see how the absence or presence of formal and informal mentoring relationships could have an impact in this critical moment of their life course.
For me, being close of these processes is interesting, but also, I think that the results could have implications for the Administration, practitioners and immigrant organizations in identifying their needs and how to provide effective networks of support, which I think is the most powerful thing. Cooperate on the development of a mentoring apprenticeship community.

I finished my bachelor’s degree studies on Social Work in Universitat Rovira i Virigli at 2016. After that I was studying a master’s degree on Youth and Society which was coordinated by the University of Girona but involved several Catalonian Universities with expertise on youth policies, youth communication or research on becoming adult and life courses.
My first experience on mentoring was as a mentor in a Nightingale program conducted by “Quilòmetre Zero” (a social association which develops this program in Tarragona). After that, I began to work on monitoring mentoring relationships in the same entity during 2016. The next year I was working in the same professional role in a mentoring program with refugee mentees, a program coordinated by the Catalan Government. This program was the first experience in Spain on groups of mentoring.
Nowadays, I am working as a researcher at the University of Girona. My work is focused on developing a common evaluation frame for the Spanish mentoring programs. This research is named Applying Mentoring. Also, I am a PhD candidate in the same university, and I am starting a research that pretends to shed some light about the situation of former unaccompanied minors who are turning 18 and becoming legally adults in Spain. At the same time, I continue giving support like trainer to different social entities that are using mentoring as a social intervention methodology.

I've been conducting research to examine the effects of mentoring programmes on mentee, mentors and the broader community.
I have a specific expertise in mixed-methods and cross-cultural research.

I am postdoctoral research fellow and adjunct professor of Community Health Psychology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. My research focuses on the determinants of health behaviours and positive youth development.

In the context of my Ph.D. dissertation, I am interesting in mentoring to work for people with a migration background or origin.

I am a Ph. D. Candidate in Economics at ECARES at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Twenty years working with same-age secondary schools wishing to abandon their same-age structure; I.E. from poor mental health and wellbeing to good!

Specialist in transitioning schools from same-age organisations to multi-age organisations.
Former Head, author of five books on school systems especially vertical tutoring

Program Manager of the Mentor UP Mentoring Program, inplemented from D.P.S.S. - University of Padova

I have been researching mentoring in Ireland for 15 years and have undertaken a broad range of studies with colleagues. I am co-author of A Guide to Youth Mentoring: Providing effective social support (with Pat Dolan, Jessica Kingsley, 2012) and of Mentoring Young People in Care and Leaving Care: Theory, Research and Practice (with Pat Dolan, Caroline McGregor, Routledge, forthcoming, 2019). I have also published a range of journal articles and book chapters on youth mentoring.

I am a Lecturer at the School of Political Science & Sociology, NUI, Galway in Ireland and a Senior Researcher with the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre.

Dr Heide Busse worked for the Centre for Public Health at Bristol Medical School (Population Health Sciences), United Kingdom, from 2012 to 2018. Heide joined the Centre for Public Health initially as a research associate in public health from 2012-2014 where she worked on a range of public health projects focussed on children and young people funded by the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) and the National Institute for Health Research School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR). As part of this role, Heide worked on over 20 different research projects mostly concerned with children and young people. One study included a feasibility randomised controlled trial of a local mentoring programme which aimed to imrpove health and wellbeing amongst vulnerable secondary school students.

From 2015-2018, Heide undertook a PhD studentship that investigated the role of mentoring and mentoring programmes in relation to young people’s health, educational and employability outcomes.

Heide is experienced with the following research methodologies: randomised controlled trials (incl. process and cost evaluations), qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, observations) and systematic review methodology (incl. reviews of reviews and qualitative synthesis).

Heide’s broader research interests include young people’s emotional health and wellbeing, the role of natural and formal mentors in the life of young people, health inequities and developing and evaluation public health interventions.

Heide has a BSc in Psychology from the University of Groningen, Netherlands (2011), an MSc in Health Psychology from the University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK) (2012), and has recently been awarded a PhD in Public Health from the University of Bristol (UK) (2019).

Heide's PhD thesis was entitled "Investigating the role of mentoring and mentoring programmes in improving young people’s health, educational and employability outcomes." Her PhD was funded by the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer), one of five Public Health Research Centres of Excellence in the United Kingdom.

With her background in psychology and public health and experiences in working with young people in various settings (sport, clinical, research), Heide is particularly interested in finding out what works to improve and maintain the health and well-being of children and young people.

I am assistant professor and political scientist at the University of Girona.

Kirsten Christensen is a Ph.D. candidate in Clinical Psychology and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Boston

My research and area of focus is on mentoring and the impact it has on international students through their college career.

Kimberly Chu currently serves as the Associate Director for Executives on Campus at the City University of New York - Baruch College. Kimberly began her career with the City University of New York in 2004, working at both Hunter College and Borough of Manhattan Community College. Kimberly has extensive experience in career development working with students one-on-one and in groups in areas such as resume writing, interview building, networking, branding, career exploration and interpretation of career assessments. Kimberly holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stony Brook University in Sociology & Business Management, a Master’s of Science degree in Counseling from the City University of New York, Hunter College and an Ed.D from Northeastern University in Educational Leadership specializing in Higher Education Administration.

Véronique is leading the Canadian Mentoring Partnership's first-ever national study of mentoring in Canada. The State of Mentoring Research Initiative focuse on:

Mapping the mentoring experiences of youth — Survey of 3,000 young adults across Canada to determine whether youth mentoring needs are being met and assess where mentoring gaps and opportunities exist

Capturing the landscape of mentoring programs and services — Survey and discussions with representatives from community organizations and the research, youth development, government, philanthropic and corporate sectors to understand the prevalence, practices, and scope of mentoring programs in Canada

The State of Mentoring Research Initiative will support the development of tools and resources to improve the quality of mentoring services in Canada.

Véronique leads the Canadian Mentoring Partnership's research agenda, with a focus on mapping the mentoring landscape in Canada and identifying service gaps. She is also a co-lead of the Canadian Centre for Mentoring Research along with the University of Alberta and the Alberta Mentoring Partnership. Véronique is committed to knowledge mobilization and uses the new research to bridge the gap between academic researchers and community organizations. Prior to joining CMP, Véronique led programs focused on promoting healthy relationships for youth and violence prevention. Véronique holds two degrees in history, a PhD from the University of Toronto and a Master of Arts from the Université de Montréal.

Peter De Cuyper is integration expert and research manager at the Research Institute for Work and Society (HIVA) at the university of Leuven. His main research domains are labour market integration of migrants and migrant integration policies. Currently, he focuses on the impact of labor market policies on immigrant employment, integration policies towards highly skilled newcomers and mentoring schemes for new migrants.

De Meijer, L.A.L. (2018, April). Mentoring Urban Talent. Presentation at Erasmus+ Steering Group Meeting, Riga, Letland.

Meeuwisse, M., De Meijer, L.A.L., Born, M.Ph., Severiens, S.E. (2017). The work-study interface: Similarities and differences between ethnic minority and ethnic majority students. Higher Education, 73, 261-280.

De Meijer, L. (2008). Ethnicity effects in police officer selection: Applicant, assessor, and selection-method factors. Doctoral dissertation, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Lonneke de Meijer is a psychologist and educational scientist. She is working as assistant professor at the department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands. Her research focuses on school careers, transition, and teacher professionalization, all in the urban diversified context. At the moment, she is scientific leader of a project into mentoring of talented urban youth.