Prof. Michal Molcho (ENCOUNTER Co-Supervisor), Dept. of Children's Studies, NUI Galway is a world-renowned expert in the sociology of children and youths. She founded the Department of Children's Studies at NUI Galway in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: the only such department in Europe with a child-centred, multidisciplinary perspective. With her sociological perspective on children's experiences with NMRs, she is an excellent co-supervisor of the ENCOUNTER. Prof. Molcho will co-supervise and best support the ENCOUNTER project with a multidisciplinary child-centred expert perspective: She will advise on the implementation of the ENCOUNTER themes in Children's studies perspective in the HOST while supporting the development of the lectures on participatory and arts-based research methods, and on the theory of new sociology of childhood delivered by the researcher at the HOST; and co-supervise the conceptualisation of the perspectives of the new sociology of childhood in natural mentoring relationships while co-authoring ENCOUNTER publications.

Ms. Szilvia Simon, Head of the Mentoring Europe ENCOUNTER partner organisation is an expert in mentoring evidence-based practice and communicating research results to mentoring stakeholders across the EU and the Head of the Mentoring Europe. She is also a director of the bi-annual conference European Mentoring Summit for mentoring stakeholders across the EU. In the ENCOUNTER project, she is an important partner who will facilitate the intersectoral transfer of knowledge, networking, dissemination, communication and exploitation of the ENCOUNTER results and future collaborations among youth mentoring practitioners, professionals, academics and researchers, and the lay public across the EU.

Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship no. 101027291. The ENCOUNTER project was awarded funding H2020 MSCA-IF-EF-ST grant no. 101027291: ENCOUNTER: Experiences of youth in natural mentoring relationships. The project started on 27th September 2021 and lasted until 26th September 2023. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101027291.

Department of Psychology, School of Liberal Arts and Humanities Charles University in Prague: ENCOUNTER project is hosted as an H2020 MSCA IF Research project at the School of Liberal Arts and Humanities (Faculty of Humanitities) at Charles University in Prague.

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