Mentor
The Concept
Individual support from the mentor:
As mentees, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and academic and scientific staff receive tailored support from an experienced specialist, the mentor, in the form of a personal, one-to-one relationship. The mentor is always more highly qualified than the mentee and supports, fosters and advises the mentee on her further academic and profession career. All mentors are women.
Support programme with training courses, lectures and networks:
A support programme provides a forum which facilitates cross-discipline networking and contains seminars, training courses and lectures which are designed to foster the mentees' academic and professional development. You will take part on a seminar in preparation for your role as mentor. If you wish, you can also take part on all the training courses and seminars free of charge. The social programme is also free of charge.
The Structure
MentHo is offered within the University of Hohenheim in close cooperation with the faculties. Selection of mentors and mentees, together with the contents of the curriculum, are also aligned with the requirement profiles of the individual faculties.
External organisations and businesses can influence the matching process by creating requirement profiles for the mentee and by recruiting mentors for the programme from their own ranks.
The Goals
- To support talented women in academia from an early stage
- To share personal experiences
- To give insights into unwritten rules and laws
- To provide support in achieving objectives
- To shorten study times
- To reduce the number of student dropouts
- To increase the percentage of women at the University:
- among graduates
- among postgraduates
- among mid-level staff
- among professors
- by providing advice
- by sharing personal experiences
- by giving insights into unwritten rules and laws
- by providing contacts
- To build bridges between studies and career:
- by providing contacts
- by providing job-shadowing and work placements outside of the University
Admission to the MentHo Programme
You can join the MentHo Programme by submitting you the relevant application form to the MentHo Office or by being proposed by a faculty. The selection and matching procedure is carried out by the MentHo Office.
Ten mentees can join the programme per faculty and per semester. We are always looking for new mentors to match the number of new mentees per semester.
Costs
As a mentor you will incur no costs. You can visit any of our seminars and training courses absolutely free of charge. On top of that, you can have full access to our network, also at no cost whatsoever.
At the end of your time as a mentor, you will receive written confirmation of your participation on our programme.
You can find the application forms for admission to the MentHo database here.