063 - ŽAR Mentoring Project: Supporting the Professional
Development of Croatians in Croatia and the Diaspora
Natasha Levak
(University of Southern Queensland,
Australija)
The benefits of mentoring for career development are well documented.
Mentoring has also been identified as providing benefits for the mentors.
E-mentoring, that is, mentoring which is enabled and enhanced through the use
of technology has been successful in promoting the development of females in
the STEM (Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics) areas in which
women have been underrepresented although they are able to achieve as
successfully as their male counterparts.
E-mentoring circles allow professionals the opportunity to connect and
develop support networks enabling the creation of communities of practice by
removing the geographical boundaries thus providing opportunities for mutually
beneficial collaboration between professionals in Croatia and the Diaspora.
This presentation will provide an overview of ŽAR (Župa aktivno radi), a
not for profit group that began in Župa near Dubrovnik, Croatia. ŽAR’s goals
and the current focus ŽAR mentoring projects will be outlined. These projects
include: face-to-face mentoring in Croatia as well as the establishment of an
e-mentoring community consisting of members from Croatia and the Diaspora.
The processes that have been established to scaffold the projects’
development over the next two years will be discussed. Achievement made to date
will be presented including the results of a mentoring training day with professionals
in Dubrovnik will be provided.
Paper presented at the First Croatian Emigration Congress, Zagreb 23 -
26 June 2014.
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