Ways we can work together
- Join us in supporting and empowering creatives, culture professionals and other changemakers.
- Co-creating European/regional/local projects which have mentorship and capacity building aspect. (Creative Europe, Horizon, Erasmus+…)
- We consult you in designing and implementing mentorship and capacity building programs for your organization, CSR or business.
In addition to its own programs, Creative Mentorship actively supports organizations, institutions, and networks in developing and implementing their own mentorship and capacity-building models. Through methodology development, training, and program design, Creative Mentorship has so far supported and/or implemented various mentorship and educational programs:
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- Art Nexus (educational workshops for culture and arts professionals) – In 2024, we launched a collaboration with the international cultural and development cooperation program ArtNexus. Within this partnership, between March and November 2024, we are organizing a series of six online workshops aimed at providing new knowledge and empowering everyone working in culture, the arts, creative industries, and media. The workshops were led by experienced lecturers with years of international experience in their respective fields.
- She Pioneers, in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden in Serbia and the Swedish Institute
- Serbian Games Association – SGA (mentorship for gaming professionals and women in gaming) – Through three cycles of the mentorship program, we supported the Serbian Games Association (SGA) and the 110 participants who completed the program.
- Pexim Foundation (mentorship for youth)
- Academy for Women’s Leadership
- Swedish Institute (methodology development for global leadership programs), Nätverkstan (Sweden) – The Swedish Institute engaged us to develop a program methodology to be offered to Swedish embassies worldwide as a tool for local leadership potential development and public diplomacy.
- CRU Creative Hub (Portugal) – We had the opportunity to support the creative hub CRU from Portugal in launching their mentorship programs.
- Subtopia Creative Hub in Sweden
Creative Mentorship has rich experience in international cooperation, particularly through Erasmus+ programs and regional capacity-building initiatives:
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- Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans (CC4WBs): In this three-year European Union project, funded by the EU and implemented by UNESCO and the British Council, Creative Mentorship delivered mentorship programs for 110 participants from the Western Balkans. The project provided support to professionals in the creative industries and created a space for cooperation and social change.
- Music4Change (Erasmus+): Creative Mentorship designed and led a mentorship program for doctoral music students, serving as a “bridge” and support system in their transition from the academic sphere to the labor market. You can learn more about this collaboration at this link.
- REMAM – Re-learning Mentoring in Arts Management (Erasmus+): Within this project, Creative Mentorship and its partners created a new, comprehensive understanding of mentorship in cultural management. It was established both as a framework for lifelong professional learning and as part of academic education.
Creative Mentorship has inspired and supported the launch of multiple mentoring initiatives: the mentorship segment of the Academy for Women’s Leadership (in cooperation with the Center for Modern Skills and the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence); the “Mentorijacija” mentorship program at the Young Ambassadors in Niš; the internal mentorship scheme of the Hemofarm Foundation, among others.
We have promoted and spread mentorship through public mentorship speed-dating sessions, educational programs, and motivational workshops titled “Find a Mentor!”, which we held within relevant cultural programs such as the Mikser Festival or the annual conference of the Balkan Museum Network, as well as major youth gatherings like the conference of AIESEC (the world’s largest student organization) and the National Youth Council of Serbia (KOMS).
We continuously cooperate and exchange knowledge with mentorship programs in Serbia and the region, as well as internationally. This includes programs such as: “Share Your Knowledge” by the European Movement in Serbia, AmChamps by the American Chamber of Commerce in Serbia, and the mentorship program of the Serbian Association of Managers.
We offer our commitment to mentorship, the knowledge we have been continuously gathering since 2011, and all the practical skills in developing and running mentorship programs to other organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals who want to spread mentorship and are looking for the ideal way to support and encourage their colleagues and employees.
Cooperation with us is recommended by the former Director of the British Council for the Western Balkans, Tony O’Brien, the Ambassador of Sweden to Serbia, H.E. Christer Asp, and the former State Secretary at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Nenad Borovčanin.
