ABOUT PROJECT
What We Do?
We Support
1. Mentoring as a learning relationship in the Creative and Cultural Industries.
PeerMent responds to a common gap: mentoring often happens informally, while mentors rarely receive structured preparation. The project strengthens mentoring quality by providing practical training and tools that help mentors support learning and autonomy without creating dependency.
2. Professionals who mentor emerging creatives
MENTRA is designed for experienced professionals in CCI who act, or are preparing to act, as mentors. It strengthens core mentoring competences such as communication, reflective questioning, feedback, boundaries, and power-awareness.
3. Education and training organisations in CCI
VET providers, creative hubs, and cultural organisations benefit from a reusable mentoring training programme that can be integrated into existing education, training, and professional development offers.
Project Objectives
PeerMent aims to professionalise mentoring practices in the Creative and Cultural Industries by equipping mentors with practical tools, reflective methods, and clear role positioning.
- Clarify mentoring roles, responsibilities, and boundaries in real mentoring contexts.
- Strengthen core mentoring skills (listening, questioning, feedback, trust-building).
- Increase awareness of power dynamics and expectations within mentoring relationships.
- Support digital and hybrid mentoring practices through intentional tool use and communication structure.
- Supporting continuous learning and capacity-building.
- Enable sustainable mentoring models that organisations can reuse beyond the project duration.
Project Partners
PeerMent brings together partner organisations working across creative education, professional development, and mentoring practice in the Creative and Cultural Industries. Together, the partnership co-creates, tests, and disseminates the MENTRA training programme and related tools to ensure relevance, usability, and long-term impact.
- OTOXO Productions (Barcelona, Spain - Coordinator)
- EFTA (İzmir, Türkiye - Partner)
- Les créatives de demain (Nice, France - Partner)
- Polente Creativo S.L. (Spain)
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