Organizing Adult Mentoring Activities at European Level

Mentoring plays an important role in professional and personal development of adults because it brings motivation for learning and assures lifelong learning premises. Adult mentoring is extremely important in an organizations life. The implementation of a structured mentoring program brings the organization benefits and motivation to their staff, and therefore growth. Even if mentors are volunteers in the mentoring process, they need to be trained to act properly.This paper presents the arguments for implementing a mentoring program in organizations. It is also presented the FORMULA Project - a good practice example of mentoring program developed in 5 European countries. The project is promoting an adult mentoring model based on training the mentors and monitoring their activity with their mentees. The mentors in FORMULA project are disadvantaged adults. Through training they will receive the necessary tools and guidance to become mentors for others. The quality of the training courses is assured by the partner's experience. The permanent communication between partners and share of expertise are the key elements in developing a new concept of mentoring.