Mentoring can improve access to knowledge, networks, and development opportunities for people who face additional social or professional barriers. This category includes programs focused on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity, including initiatives for migrants, refugees, people with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups.
Volunteer mentoring from the Centre for Integration of Foreigners in a one-foreigner/one-mentor tandem, usually lasting six to twelve months and focused on language, study, practical skills and integration.
Who is it for? Foreign nationals living in Czechia – children, teenagers, adults and families
Peer mentoring for wheelchair users after spinal cord injury — personal, practical and psychological support from people with the same experience across the Czech Republic.
Who is it for? Wheelchair users after spinal cord injury
A VOLONTÉ UNITAS social programme for young men leaving children’s homes, combining individual mentoring, case management, workshops, counselling and peer support during the transition to independent life.
Who is it for? Young men leaving children’s homes and preparing for independent life
The free mentoring program of Centre Carolina at Charles University supports applicants and students in difficult socioeconomic situations with starting and navigating university life.
Who is it for? Applicants and students in difficult socioeconomic situations
Long-term volunteer mentoring by the Organization for Aid to Refugees, connecting mentors with newly arrived children and adults and supporting their integration into life in the Czech Republic.
Who is it for? Newly arrived migrants and refugees, including children, unaccompanied minors and adults
A 2026–2028 Via Vita project developing and testing peer mentor–mentee tandems that support disadvantaged people through shared lived experience.
Who is it for? Disadvantaged people and peer volunteers with experience of similar life situations
Supports Roma clients serving alternative sentences through trained Roma mentors who conduct outreach, explain sentence conditions, and provide practical support and referrals.
Who is it for? Roma clients serving alternative sentences