ProTrain’s matching results published

First of all: What’s ProTrain?

ProTrain programme encourages and supports active, competent and motivated AEGEE members to acquire training skills. The programme is based on the acquisition of competences and continuous feedback from an experienced mentor, who helps the mentee to develop as trainer.

That’s it, two days ago this matching happened in the second edition of this project. Mentees finally got to know their mentors and everybody seems to be happy! What will happen now is that both sides will meet (online supposedly). It is supposed that most of them selected each other, so on the one hand, they might know each other already and now this regular relation will make them feel closer, or on the other hand, this experience will create a new tie between them. This time we counted with the applications of some external trainers too. Moreover, Sandra Geldmacher, Project Manager, will send them a first task to the mentees, in order to guide them a bit in the beginning, and will wait input from mentors in order to know what’s the best way to follow with this new ProTrainees. In any case the development is totally up to the mentee and the mentor, as assignments are just a helping tool.

The process to apply is easy. First both sides are request to fill in a survey with their personal and professional data, experience in AEGEE, motivation… But also their plans for self-assessment, goals for personal development etc. Later on this info is shared with the opposite side and both mentees and mentors state their preferences, who to work with. Finally when the matching process is over it’s time to start working! New experiences are waiting there outside for the next 6-12 months (it all depends on THEM): leading interactive workshops, facilitating discussions, designing training concepts… Little by little the mentee will be encouraged to accomplish some tasks as: leading some WSs (3 would be a good number both in local and European level), leading some training sessions, creating a training concept together with some fellows, participating in a T4T…

Good luck, and hopefully see you soon, mentees, in the Academy!

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Welcome everyone: Academy members, AEGEEans, and people in general!

The Academy Board is proud to present to the new brand blog of the Academy. We will try to keep you as much updated as possible through this new tool, that's our main aim, we know that you were waiting for it (the updates, not the blog :P) and we have been working on it since we met last time in December, that's why also together with the holiday period we have been a bit silent.

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