Mentoring for doctoral candidates and postdocs

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar offers two different mentoring programmes for doctoral students and postdocs.

Both mentoring programmes are designed as a combination of peer and group mentoring and combine individual development on the one hand and networking on the other hand. Scientists, artists, and designers come together in groups to reflect on their past and future careers, exchange experiences with a mentor during various intra-group activities. For this purpose, a financial budget is available for each group. Complementary networking and information events as well as workshops for career planning and competence trainings are also organized for all mentees. The mentoring programme thrives on the willingness of the mentees to participate in the framework programme, to participate in the peer groups and to help shape the activities within the group.

The application deadline for both programmes is on 30.09.2019!

Benefits for mentees

learn more about the structures, processes, and rules of academia or other fields of work by working together with mentors, guests, and other mentees
informal exchange with mentors working in your envisaged working field
orientation and assistance in career decision making
incorporate your ideas and needs in workshops, information and networking events (e.g. fireside chats)
support to develop an professional network
develop strategies to reconcile career and family or dual career couples
insight into other disciplines

2 mentoring programmes

Focus:

With WISA⁺ Women in Science and Arts the Equal Opportunity Office supports motivated female doctoral candidates and postdocs by providing external mentors who advise and support the mentees regarding their current qualification projects, as well as their professional and academic development.

Aims:

Support and mentoring of the doctoral process and the postdoc phase
(inter-)disciplinary exchange of knowledge and encourage networking across institutional borders
Reflexion on potentials, strategies and individual professional goals

Focus:

The Bauhaus Research School accompanies engaged doctoral candidates and postdocs to network and to prepare for a career after their doctorate or postdoc with support of mentors from the sectors of science, economy, industry, arts and culture.

Aims:

Identification, optimization, and use of individual competences and potentials to start a career after the doctorate
Clarify individual career aims and requirements and first steps to reach this aims
Development of an professional network

Schedule of the mentoring programmes

Nov.-Dez. 2019 | Introductory phase

Kick-off meeting incl. introduction into your role as mentee on 15.11.2019
Planning of meetings and workshops in collaboration of the mentees and the project coordinators
group matching
mentor matching

Jan.-Okt. 2020 | Intensification phase

working together with the mentors
Fire-side chats
continiously after-work-meetings and mentee-chats

Nov.-Dez. 2020 | Final phase

final event
evaluation

Participants of both mentoring programmes have the possiblity to meet each other during the networking and information events. As needed, workshops are organised seperately or together for both mentoring programmes.

Application procedure

You can submit your application online until 30. September 2019. Please apply for WISA⁺ OR Career.International. The Equal Opportunity Office and the Bauhaus Research School will decide about the admission to the several mentoring programme afterwards.

Mentoring for doctoral candidates and postdocs