Research and Social Impact ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** The ENCOUNTER will contribute to current youth mentoring theory, research and practice, an enhance supportive mentoring relationships while contributing to children's and youth's em well-being. The significant impact of the ENCOUNTER project in research, policy, the pract services and society will be as follows: 1. The impact in the field of youth mentoring will be generated through the dissemination via high-quality open access publications, and communication of the ENCOUNTER themes and r variety of media outputs in cooperation with ENCOUNTER Partners. 2. On the academic level, the ENCOUNTER will integrate themes in the research agenda at th networking of the Host Institution with the partner NUI Galway, Department of Children's s the leadership of the ENCOUNTER Research fellow, and Supervisor and Co-Supervisor, two tea ENCOUNTER themes will be delivered in the HOST institution. The perspective of Children's integrated within the ENCOUNTER modules and beyond. 3. The ENCOUNTER will develop and establish the theme of child-centred youth mentoring in research on the policy and practice level in the Czech context. And in the practice of chi educational services in the schools with potential in future international implementation 4. On the international research in youth mentoring level, the ENCOUNTER will establish a world-class interdisciplinary and international collaborative research on children and you prepare 1. a competitive research grant proposal in Horizon Europe (ERC grant proposal) on and 2. to collaborate on the edited book proposal (or Special Issue Journal) on ENCOUNTER 3. to develop the international mentoring programme on empowerment of mentoring skills for population of children and youths based on ENCOUNTER results. 5. On a policy and practice EU level, the ENCOUNTER will develop methodical guidelines and to raise awareness of the benefits of NMRs, and empower children to initiate and maintain relationship.