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Description of the Mentor Certification Process
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS "business mentor madri+d" CORRESPONDING TO THE 8th CALL (Madrid, 8, 15 and 22 November, 2018)
Objective
The certification aims to ensure that the certified persons have the knowledge and skills to adequately develop the role of mentor or the role of entrepreneurship program manager, effectively managing mentoring relationships, providing knowledge of interest for the personal and/or professional activity of the entrepreneurs and helping them solve doubts, explore alternatives and asume new challenges.
A mentor is a person who offers information, advice and guidance to other people (mentees) through a relationship based on personal commitment (mentoring relationship) for the personal and professional development of mentees. The mentees goal of the mentoring targeted by this certification are the entrepreneurs.
A manager of entrepreneurship programs is a professional working in the environment of corporate or institutional programs of incubation, acceleration or in general, support to entrepreneurship.
Announcement
This information refers to the “business mentor madri+d“ Call for Certification that will take place on the days indicated in the header. All information about the calls is published in advance on the website www.madrimasd.org/businessmentor
Training program
The certification process is based on a training program composed of theory and individual or team work based on practical cases, according to the criteria and agenda established in the Program of the Call.
The Program of the Call published consists of 26 hours of training and individual or team work.
The maximum number of attendees for the Call is 17.
Prerequisites
To access the Calls for the certification process it is necessary to commit to attend at least 80% of the training hours.
To obtain the certificate as "Entrepreneurship program manager", no minimum experience is required.
To obtain the certificate as a "Mentor", at least 15 years of professional experience must be accredited and at least one satisfactory mentoring relationship developed in the last five years must be demonstrated.
Criteria for certification
The process for certification of mentors and managers is based on the evaluation of a series of criteria grouped into three areas:
1, - Knowledge of key aspects of the mentoring process for entrepreneurs
2.- Knowledge of key aspects of the management and the life-cycle of a startup
3.- Knowledge of communication and management skills to manage mentoring relationships
In case the participant does not obtain the minimum score necessary to obtain the certification and has not attended all the training sessions, he will be offered the possibility of completing his training and evaluation by attending the next “business mentor madri+d” certification process, and only that.
Expert Panel
To assess those competencies and knowledge that require personal observation, a Panel of Experts is made up of the following persons:
Evaluation and Certification Committee
The body responsible for issuing the certification according to madri+d Foundation quality procedures is the "business mentor madri+d" Evaluation and Certification Committee. It is composed of experts in certification processes, skills and knowledge assessment, entrepreneurship and mentoring.
Rights of the participants
Participants in the "business mentor madri+d" certification process have the right to: know in advance the requirements of the certification and its scope, a description of the evaluation process, the rights of the applicants, the duties of the certified person and the rates; to receive the training associated with the corresponding call; and to receive a fair and equitable evaluation.
Participants may recuse evaluators in the event that conflicts of interest are detected and, if the participant does not meet the criteria to obtain the certification, he or she may submit a claim if he or she believes that the evaluation is incorrect.
Duties of the person certified
The "business mentor madri+d" certified persons must participate actively in the training according to the criteria and agenda established, provide reliable information about their training and experience to assess their suitability as "business mentor madri+d" and make an adequate use of their status as a "business mentor madri+d" certified person in accordance with the certification procedures.
Rates
The registration fee for participation in the call is 450 euros.
Public Mission
As part of its mission, the madri+d Knowledge Foundation supports entrepreneurship based on science and technology as a way to contribute to innovation and knowledge transfer. To this end, it regularly carries out among others, acceleration and incubation activities, management of networks of mentors, experts and investors, and certification of mentors. In the latter case, the specific objective is to improve the quality and impact of mentoring of entrepreneurs in the geographical areas targeted by the entities supporting the "business mentor madri+d" certification.
To offer the certification, the madri+d Foundation acts autonomously and both its internal staff and externally contracted personnel undertake to respect the rules of confidentiality, impartiality and conflicts of interest that may arise. The access to the certification is not restricted due to undue limiting reasons such as belonging to an association or group.
The madri+d Foundation maintains records of the certification process or renewal of the certification followed by each certified person, undertakes to try to resolve any conflict of interests and to analyze any claim for discrepancies with the evaluation process.
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