Mentoring Plus

Mentoring Plus is a one-year program for women* for individual and practice-oriented career advancement. In tailored program lines, Mentoring Plus supports female students, doctoral candidates, and young female scientists with doctorates in entering, changing, and advancing their careers.

*The program is open to all individuals who identify as women on an ongoing basis.

Program details

Mentoring Plus is aimed at women who aspire to a career in science, are planning a science-related career, or want to enter or switch to other fields such as business, politics, and administration. The program addresses female students and young female scientists who want to deal intensively and actively with their further career and life planning. The mentees benefit from the three components of the one-year program:

• Mentoring - professional biographical exchange with a specialist and/or manager
  (individually designed in terms of content and time)
• Training - further development of practical and management-oriented qualifications
• Networking - within the program with mentees and mentors, with other highly qualified young professionals, and across sectors with experts

Targets

Women are still significantly underrepresented in higher specialist and management positions. Against this background, Mentoring Plus aims to increase the career and advancement opportunities of highly qualified women, to promote the visibility of the competencies and potential of young female scientists, and to strengthen intergenerational exchange on career issues and female leadership roles.

Actresses

The Career Service implements the Mentoring Plus program line for female students and the Potsdam Graduate School implements the Mentoring Plus program line for female doctoral students and postdocs. Both institutions work closely with the Equal Opportunity Coordination Office and are supported by funds from the Female Professors’ Program III.