Between February 17th and 20th in Uzhorod, Ukraine, a meeting summarizing the two years of Proment Project – “Promoting professional education and students’ engagement through comprehensive mentoring and tutoring system at HEIS” took place.

The essence of the project is to create conditions for students to have a mentor-student or tutor-student relationship, where the mentor or tutor acts as a guide, advisor supporting the student in the development of substantive competences, as well as those related to personal development.

One of the tasks of the Silesian University of Technology, as well as other partners from the EU, is to share the experience of conducting individual mentoring programs, in many cases involving the Project Based Learning approach.

On behalf of the Silesian University of Technology, at the request of Vice-Rector Anna Chrobok, project manager at our University, the meeting was attended by Dr Eng. Adam Marek and Dr Marta Matyjaszek. Together with partners from universities in Ukraine and Georgia and with other partners and universities from the EU, they discussed the key stages of the project implementation, presented the results and effects of their work so far, as well as examples of best practices and successes.

Representatives of four Ukrainian and two Georgian universities, together with the students involved in the project, presented their greatest achievements – the opening of the Mentoring and Tutoring Centre and its activities so far.

The mentoring/tutoring system is designed to involve students in relevant social projects, as well as to promote cooperation and strengthen relations between relevant international higher education institutions.

Partner institutions in Proment Project:

1. Lviv Polytechnic National University
2. Dnipro University of Technology
3. Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University
4. Chernihiv Polytechnic National University
5. Shota Rustaveli State University
6. Georgian Technical University
7. The Silesian University of Technology
8. Università Degli Studi di Perugia
9. University of Aveiro
10. Technische Universitaet Wien
11. Association “Lviv Cluster of Information Technology and Business Services”
12. Dnipropetrovsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry
13. Department of Education and Science of Mykolaiv's Regional State Administration
14. Association of IT enterprises of the Chernihiv region “Chernihiv IT Cluster”
15. Ajara Chamber of Commerce and Industry
16. LLC Coaching Academy

In the following days, from 21-23 February, another Steering Committee Meeting was held, chaired by Professor Oleh Matviykiv from the Lviv Polytechnic National University. The meeting was an excellent opportunity to discuss the project results, challenges, and future steps necessary to achieve the best results from the project implementation.