Peer Education – Pan European

Partners discussing Peer Education at the meeting in Athens

Overview

The PEPE project will target people furthest from the labour market and those who are experiencing difficulties in gaining or retaining training or employment due to a lack of appropriate personal skills and behaviours. The project will develop the Peer Education methodology piloted through the PIP project.

Partnership

The partners come from Wales, Portugal, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Italy and Greece and have been chosen because they are all organisations who have established Mentoring programmes and/or who work directly with the target groups.

Outcomes

• a structured, accredited, Peer Educator training programme
• a selection of appropriate activities
• a Training Trainers course in all partner languages
• a website providing a portal for all Peer Mentoring and Peer Education projects and programmes
• increased use of MentorSpace for Mentor and Mentee communication and secure one-to-one e-mentoring

Impact

• increased capacity for Peer Education training through the training of new trainers in 7 countries
• increased opportunities for the target groups to successfully gain and retain training and employment
• increased self-confidence and self-worth of the target groups
• the potential for Pan-European accredited training programmes in Peer Support
• increased participation in transcultural citizenship activities by young people working as peer educators