about Xeniusnet

Since ancient times, hospitality (“filoxenia”) has always been perceived as a deed of great nobility in Greece. According to ancient traditions, the host was supposed to receive the guest in his house with goodwill, including the reception and entertainment of visitors and strangers, as well. Greeks have always been firm believers of hospitality, viewing it as a ritualized guest-friendship relation. Strangers were thought to be under the protection of “Xenios Zeus” and were considered as sacred, honored and resected figures.

Xeniusnet is a collaborative environment inspired by the culture of Greek hospitality. It aims to support the right to education and integration of child refugees in the Greek society and educational system. Child refugees can submit any questions they might have concerning their lessons at school or their homework assignments. Greek student volunteers will answer and/or suggest appropriate educational material. The routing of questions is managed by Xeniusnet according to criteria such as skills, availability, rating of previous answers, etc. Xeniusnet also involves teacher volunteers who undertake the responsibility of providing guidance and moderating the communications between mentors and mentees, in terms of accuracy and propriety.

become a mentee

Sign in by selecting to be a mentee

You will have the opportunity to ask local volunteers-mentors online for help with your school subjects and homework assignments.You can get all the help you need regardless of your location, without having to go through any formal arrangements and commuting costs. You just need access to the web and a keen interest to ask and learn.

Once registered on the system, you are able to submit a question/request

Xeniusnet immediately selects the most fitting of the available mentors concerning the subject of the question. It then closely follows-up on the request status, in order to make sure that it is answered as soon as possible.

You can rate the received answers in terms of usefulness and timeliness.

become a mentor

Sign in by selecting to be a mentor

You will have the opportunity to volunteer time and knowledge towards supporting your peers, who have just started attending local schools. Get involved in their learning and integration process and get in touch with a different way of thinking.

You can select the subject(s) in which you are more confident offering help to mentees’ requests

Once registered, you are directly informed by Xeniusnet when a new request for help is forwarded to you

You can include text, voice, image, and video in your messages. You are provided with tools to speed up processing: (1) a library of files/URLs to be used as reference material as part of your responses, (2) overall and per mentee timelines that summarize your interactions over time, (3) response re-use functionality that enables you to send the same content again as response to similar requests.

You have neither limitations nor obligations in offering as much help as you want

The load of requests to be answered by each mentor is automatically managed by Xeniusnet, to prevent overloading. You also have the option of explicitly asking Xeniusnet to re-direct a request to another mentor. Being highly rated on the responses that you provide on the selected subject(s) may be perceived as a certain medal of mastery on the subject.

become a moderator

Apply to become a moderator

Xeniusnet relies on teachers to moderate communications and lead to a culture of collaborative learning. Moderators are registered on the system by invitation.

Moderators can select the subject(s) in which they can offer guidance

Moderators provide a high-level of guidance and supervision to both mentees and mentors in order to ensure accuracy and appropriateness in one or more subjects of their choice.

Moderators offer academic guidance through interaction with mentors

Moderators can respond to requests by mentors in order to assist them in formulating complete and valid answers to specific mentees’ questions. They can also intervene on their own accord when they detect cases requiring academic guidance.