Òscar Prieto-Flores is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Girona, Spain. He is currently Principal Investigator of APPlying Mentoring, a RECERCAIXA research grant gathering a team of 16 researchers from United States and Spanish universities. Jordi Feu is Professor of Education Policy at the University of Girona, Spain. He is currently the head of the "Cabinet for Social Mentoring" of the University of Girona.

• 1. Critical autonomy, social capital, and mentoring programmes for children and youth. 2. The importance of being present: Mentors as "presence practitioners". 3. The role of mentoring and service learning in youth’s critical consciousness and social change efforts. 4. New approaches to empower youth to recruit mentors in the United States. 5. Youth Initiated Mentoring: Promoting and improving the social networks of youth with complex needs in the Netherlands. 6.Youth mentoring and multiple social support attunement: Contributions to understand youth social development and well-being. 7. The methodological issues in the assessment of the quality and benefits of formal youth mentoring interventions: The case of the Czech Big Brothers Big Sisters/Pět P

Òscar Prieto-Flores is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Girona, Spain. He is currently Principal Investigator of APPlying Mentoring, a RECERCAIXA research grant gathering a team of 16 researchers from United States and Spanish universities. Jordi Feu is Professor of Education Policy at the University of Girona, Spain. He is currently the head of the "Cabinet for Social Mentoring" of the University of Girona.

• 1. Critical autonomy, social capital, and mentoring programmes for children and youth. 2. The importance of being present: Mentors as "presence practitioners". 3. The role of mentoring and service learning in youth’s critical consciousness and social change efforts. 4. New approaches to empower youth to recruit mentors in the United States. 5. Youth Initiated Mentoring: Promoting and improving the social networks of youth with complex needs in the Netherlands. 6.Youth mentoring and multiple social support attunement: Contributions to understand youth social development and well-being. 7. The methodological issues in the assessment of the quality and benefits of formal youth mentoring interventions: The case of the Czech Big Brothers Big Sisters/Pět P

Òscar Prieto-Flores is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Girona, Spain. He is currently Principal Investigator of APPlying Mentoring, a RECERCAIXA research grant gathering a team of 16 researchers from United States and Spanish universities. Jordi Feu is Professor of Education Policy at the University of Girona, Spain. He is currently the head of the "Cabinet for Social Mentoring" of the University of Girona.

• 1. Critical autonomy, social capital, and mentoring programmes for children and youth. 2. The importance of being present: Mentors as "presence practitioners". 3. The role of mentoring and service learning in youth’s critical consciousness and social change efforts. 4. New approaches to empower youth to recruit mentors in the United States. 5. Youth Initiated Mentoring: Promoting and improving the social networks of youth with complex needs in the Netherlands. 6.Youth mentoring and multiple social support attunement: Contributions to understand youth social development and well-being. 7. The methodological issues in the assessment of the quality and benefits of formal youth mentoring interventions: The case of the Czech Big Brothers Big Sisters/Pět P