Mentor program at Universidad Europea

Abstract

Nowadays’ educational model within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) requires more student commitment to their education. In this challenge, mentoring provides an effective guidance for students that are starting their university education, and it also fosters their active participation in their competency development supported by a mentor. The first mentoring programs applied in higher or university education come from Anglo-Saxon universities experiences (Fraile Lobato et al. (2004)) and focused on different purposes like helping those students who show major deficiencies in their learning process of specific subjects; helping students to acquire skills and supplementing their training; preventing failures; integrating foreign students, etc. At Universidad Europea, mentoring is a developmental relationship in which an experienced person (mentor, advisor, coach, guide, teacher, etc.) provides guidance and support to another (usually younger) person with the mutually agreed aim of helping them grow by developing certain specific competencies.