Mentors are the ones most responsible for the learning process in ESC, alongside volunteers themselves, of course. Besides supporting their integration in the new community, especially in the beginning of the project, their key role is to guide and support the volunteer in the ESC learning journey, offering them the tools needed to reflect on their own learning experience and extract the competences acquired. But mentors are not all experienced and able Masters of learning, at least not from the beginning and they also need guidance, support and training to be ready to properly perform their assigned role. With ESC and the Quality Label, the focus on mentoring is kept and even enhanced. If the certification process and the project selection processes are a clear quality warrant, the mentoring dimension has been until now left to a very large extent to the decision of the organization with regard to the amount of time, energy and resources invested in this process. But this is the key quality factor that reaches to a very large extent directly the volunteer and impacts significantly the learning of young European volunteers as well as the overall experience of all project actors. Because of this, the mentor role is a crucial element that we are addressing in this project, based on the difference we have seen that a good mentoring process does for the quality of the overall European volunteering experience, in general and the quality of learning of the European volunteer, in particular. In communication with our partners and through an online survey set up exactly to understand the specific needs of each partner and to incorporate these in our project design we have received the specific needs such as: we need to develop expertise of our mentor's. we would like to improve our skills as mentors. ....but need more experience in mentoring volunteers, especially in the ESC program. we are very interested in enlarging our knowledge with this project we could deepen our knowledge - to exchange experiences with other people, to learn new methods and to get more knowledge in mentoring and support of the volunteers. One of our biggest task is to guide and to support the mentors' Even if in some countries and hosting organizations mentors are well-trained and prepared for their task, this was certainly not the rule of law in EVS projects, while for ESC it is too soon to tell. In fact, there is quite little reference in the program guide and supporting documents to describe the exact role and tasks of mentors in ESC. Most of the concrete activities and situations a mentor is facing are defined in practice and if the mentor is lucky enough to have an experienced organization that can prepare them for the position, chances of an efficient mentoring relationship raise. However, small organizations beginning their ESC challenge, or beginner mentors - can rely on very little information or concrete tools and advice. This is the need we intended to fulfil in the implemented project.