TANDEM is a transnational mentoring programme that has been devised to address some of the problems surrounding the under-achievement of migrant youth across Europe. The countries participating are Austria, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and United Kingdom. From February 2007, around 60 migrant youngsters between 13 and 25 years will be attached to a professional mentor for a nine month period. The mentors who have been specially selected to suit each individual, will encourage, motivate, inspire and serve as positive role models.  In each country, the mentors will come from a range of different cultural and social backgrounds. The aims of the project are to increase the youngsters’ self-initiative and self-confidence as well as to support them on their way towards a better education and professional future.

The project is co-financed by the European Commission.

International Mentors’ Conference, June 7-10, Austria

From June 7th-10th, 2007 an international mentor conference took place in Innsbruck, Austria, bringing  six nations together making up the 60 mentors participating in TANDEM. Over these few days, Tandem’s mentors had the opportunity to exchange and evaluate experiences and good practice in a multicultural setting and to benefit from workshops in conflict management, web 2.0 and intercultural training and diversity management.

Midterm Evaluation Meeting
June 10-12, Austria

3rd Mentee Meeting
June 4th, Austria

The 17 mentees of the Austrian group came together again at the Migration Academy. With Verein Multikulturell they evaluated their first and individual experiences with their mentors. After a feedback round we planned the activities for summer such as video, radio, photo and drumming workshops.