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Mentorship development for quality practices in higher education (MILEAGE)

Sofinancira Evropska unija
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Improving the quality of support system for study placements within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and stimulating innovative study placements by establishing permanent collaboration with Career Centers and NGOs, while adopting a student-centered approach, prioritizing the needs of students. Context: Positioned within the realms of education, training, and youth development, MILEAGE recognizes the pivotal role of mentors and career advisors in shaping the learning experience for apprentices. By training these mentors effectively, the project aims to foster a supportive environment that directly align with the aspirations and challenges faced by students, contributing to a more tailored and effective educational experience. By refining mentoring techniques and streamlining the process of matching students with suitable NGOs, the project seeks to enhance the quality of student placements bridging gaps between academic knowledge and practical skills so that students can cultivate valuable skills, enhance their employability, and contribute meaningfully to society. Objectives:
  • Ensuring inclusiveness of study placement services by building capacities of career counsellors and developing new services.
  • Improving the quality of study placements by building the competences and skills of coordinators and mentors.
  • Stimulating innovative pedagogies in HEIs by implementing MILEAGE study placements and forming a supportive environment for student placements.
  • Advocating for civic engagement through the recognition of community work in students’ academic results.
Activities:
  • Development of career centre advisory services for students entering the study placement;
  • Training for career counsellors;
  • Training for study practice coordinators and mentors;
  • Onboarding students: Creative national communication campaign;
  • Piloting of MILEAGE study placement model.
Resources:
  • Online APP MILEAGE for up-to-date search of study placements;
  • digitalna podpora za karierne svetovalce;
  • Digital support-box for HEI study placement coordinators;
  • Digital support-box for NGO mentors;
  • Quality standards for study placement in HEIs implementation;
  • Publication MILEAGE: TOWARDS EXCELLENCE: Quality support system for study placements;
  • Research article about importance of support system in implementation of HEI study placements;
  • Report on role of career-centres in study placement excellence.
Results:
  • Adopted innovative learning placements in participating HEIs.
  • Raised understanding of the relevance of mentoring in HEIs.
  • 36 career counsellors that attended the training and have acquired new knowledge about how to support the study placements in HEI;
  • 45 HEI study placement coordinators that attended the capacity building activities;
  • 45 NGO tutor that attended the capacity building activities;
  • 36 NGOs offering study placement environment for students;
  • 60 students taking part in piloting of the study placements (45 students with fewer opportunities);
  • 45 HEI professors (from at least 3HEIs), 18 career counsellors and 45 NGO workers (from at least 36 NGOs) involved in the piloting of the model;
  • 85 attendees at the international online conference.
Tomaž Deželan
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Karolina Babič
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Mileage - We have conducted trainings for career counselors in higher education

As part of strengthening and improving support services for study practices, we have conducted a cycle of trainings for career counselors within the Mileage project. Two international online trainings took place on September 12 and November 5, 2024, and national live seminars in Slovenia, Italy and Finland took place in September and November 2024. The online international seminars ware intended to present various experiences of career centers in guiding students to study practices, to learn about the specificities of the current labor market regarding young people and students, to learn about new methods in counseling work with young people and students, to learn about the specificities of implementing study practices in a digital environment, to learn about the specificities of implementing study practices in non-governmental organizations, and other content that we identified as part of the needs analysis in this area in the three participating countries.
The first Mileage transnational project meeting

The team of colleagues of the Mileage project, who come from three countries and six organizations, met live for the first time at a two-day working meeting (transnational project meeting) on the 27th-28th. March 2024 in Ljubljana. We devoted the working meeting to mutual learning, discussion of the professional foundations of the project topic, detailed planning of future project activities, and planning of communication outlines and activities. At the same time, all 14 participating in the meeting also got to know each other well and forged new personal and professional ties.

The first miles of mileage: we launched the MILEAGE project

We just launched a two-year project MILEAGE: Mentorship development for quality practices in higher education, approved in Erasmus+ KA2 programme call. Consortium is constituted by six partners from three countries, among them three NGOs and three universities, since the content of the project is strongly related also to the collaborations of higher education sector and the non-governmental sector. Partners from Italy are a non-governmental organization CESIE and UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO, partners from Finland are RAUHANKASVATUSINSTITUUTTI RY INSTITUTET FOR FREDSFOSTRAN RF (Peace Education Institute) and university OULUN YLIOPISTO, Slovenian partners are a non-governmental organization KULTURNO IZOBRAŽEVALNO DRUSTVO PINA and UNIVERZA V LJUBLANI as a project coordinator.

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