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MLU Mentoring Programme for doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and junior professors

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UNIBUND-Mentoring: New Tender 2025

From June 2025 the mentoring programme for female postdoctoral researchers, provided by the universities of Halle- Wittenberg, Jena and Leipzig, offers eight places at each university for highly-qualified female postdocs, researchers undertaking a 'habilitation', junior scientist group leaders and junior professors, to support them in their development and future careers. The programme aims for female researchers who seek a professorship at a German university and who were awarded their doctorate at least 2 years ago.

You can find more information about the competition here.

https://mitteldeutscher-unibund.de/teilnahmevoraussetzungen-und-bewerbung/   

workshops

Dear mentees of the UNIBUND mentoring program,

we cordially invite you to a two-part workshop on reputation management and strategic networking on 22 January and 23  January 2025 with the trainer Deborah Ruggieri!

The workshop dates will take place online from 9am to  12pm. You will receive an access link in advance. Depending on the  feedback, the workshop units will be held either in German or English.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

The core of the workshop is the targeted development of an  extended network and its adaptation to new career goals towards a  professorship. You will learn how networking changes for postdocs with  the goal of a professorship, how existing contacts from the doctoral  period can be maintained and expanded and how you can successfully  establish new networks.

This is what you can expect:

More specifically, the workshop offers you the opportunity to get closer to the following competences:

• re-discuss and reflect on the relevance of  self-marketing and networking in relation to extended professional and  personal development
• further sharpen your personal profile and record the  individual core competences and qualities you have already acquired,  supported by self-reflection and feedback
• visualise the current and acquired network of recent years
• deepen your own strategies to increase visibility through profiling and positioning
• receive differentiated and practical suggestions for strategic networking in specific and new situations
• Gain further self-confidence for future networking activities

You have received the registration link by e-mail. If not, please contact vielfalt@rektorat.uni-halle.de

Notice regarding MLU Mentoring 2024/25

The project coordination position is currently vacant but is in the process of being filled. Unfortunately, inquiries regarding MLU Mentoring cannot be answered on a daily basis at the moment. For urgent matters, please refer to the contact details in the sidebar.

Andrea Ritschel

Referentin für Vielfalt und Chancengleichheit

Shape your scientific career path in a self-determined way! - We accompany you in the process.

What is mentoring?

The focus of a mentoring program is the informal transfer of knowledge and experience for the development and pursuit of individually viable strategies for a career in science between young scientists (mentees) and professors (mentors). In addition to a mentorship, which usually lasts 1-2 years, there are many networking events and workshops.

Find out if you are the type for a mentoring program by answering three questions. Please click on the "Mentoring Type Test". Have fun!

• Mentoring-Typ-Test

How does MLU mentoring work?

The year 2020 started with a relaunch of the internet presence and with a restructuring of MLU Mentoring. MLU Mentoring itself was conceived in 2012 and has a large alumni network. Digitization and internationalization are being given greater focus as structural topics. In terms of content, the program is geared as usual to the needs of the participants. Adaptations to (new) working and scientific worlds and the expansion of the variety of topics will continue to be central contents of mentoring in 2022.

You can find examples of topics for workshops here.
20230828_Workshopplan_2022_2023_MLU-Mentoring.pdf (130.3 KB)  vom 28.08.2023

Illustration von Eva Feuchter

What is the benefit of mentoring?

Anita Sekyra, a research associate at the Center for Higher Education Didactics in Saxony and a speaker at MLU Mentoring on the topic of "collegial consultation," tells us what mentoring programs have brought her and what she has taken away from her mentoring program.
Interview_Sekyra_Mentoring.pdf (2 MB)  vom 17.06.2021

Who is the target group?

MLU Mentoring is designed on a modular basis. Each module maps a target group.
The module "Pathways to Science" is tailored to the target group of female doctoral candidates who are considering a career in science.
The module "Orientation Professorship" is aimed at women who have the goal of becoming a professor and are in the early postdoctoral phase.
The third module is a cross-university networking module for women in the late postdoctoral phase with the certain goal of becoming a professor.

• More information about the modules can be found here.
• Application documents can be found here.

What is the feedback of MLU Mentoring participants?

"Pathways to Science," Cohort 2020:

"I got so much input from my mentor already after the first digital meetings that I can draw on it for a while and first have to implement her advice at my leisure." (PhD student at MLU)

"On the way to a professorship" UNIBUND mentoring, 2020 cohort:

"I have only had or gained good experiences during the last mentoring year and would be happy if it were possible to continue to exchange ideas with the mentees of my cohort, my mentor, and to participate in workshops." (MLU postdoctoral fellow)

Prof.in Dr.in Ulrike Witten

This programme meets the quality standards laid out by the Forum-Mentoring registered association (e.V.).

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