MuC History

The idea for Mentoring under Construction goes back to 2019 when Romina Matei (European Solidarity Corps Resource Centre) and Andrei Popescu (Romanian National Agency for European Solidarity Corps) first envisioned a European community around mentoring in the European Solidarity Corps Programme. Soon, Andreea Buzec joined to help develop a concept for community development.

The project was meant to start off with a networking event in 2020. Like many other events in the field of European Youth Work Mentoring under Construction was first planned as a residential event, then postponed, and later cancelled due to the uncertain situation of Covid-19.

Finally, in November-December 2020, Mentoring under Construction came to live with a series of online events. Andreea Buzec and Michael Kimmig transformed the residential into a four online events. This brought the MuC Cmmunity on its way (Check out the activities here: Spotlight ON! Mentoring under Construction).

In 2021, the team was enlarged: Andrei Dobre joined as a community organiser and several representatives of National Agencies (Mateja Crnekovic, Croatian NA, Edouard Porttefaix, French NA and Oli Atlason, Icelandic NA) got on board.

We continued staying online with a one-day intense workshop, MeetUPs before we tried another  attempt to go residential. Let’s see below, how this worked out…