The M4PRIS project was presented on Friday 26^th April 2024 at The European Mentoring Summit, in Paris (France). The workshop titled “Peer Mentoring Programme to tackle mental health issues, job burnout and job-related stress in prison staff” was co-organised by Aproximar, Cooperativa de Solidariedade Social and HIVA.

The European Mentoring Summit is a biennial event that aims at connecting people and projects in the mentoring sector in order to establish connections and share research, best practices, and learning-bearing experiences of mentoring programmes across Europe. Every event has a mentoring-related theme and highlights special keynote speakers and activities.

This year’s summit theme, “Expanding reach, deepening impact: mentoring for facing challenges and empowering futures,” aims to bring together the expansion of mentoring initiatives with the assurance of quality, emphasising that increased scale should not compromise excellence. You can learn more about the European Mentoring Summit here: https://mentoringsummit.eu/about-us-2024/

M4Pris workshop was focused on teaching attendees how to use mentoring to promote wellbeing at the workplace, focusing on prisons as a unique workplace. During the workshop, participants learnt about M4Pris project and how it is being implemented across different countries in Europe. It was an opportunity to expand knowledge about the challenges of working in a unique environment as a prison and how mentoring can be a tool to enhance job satisfaction and job retention.