MENTORING
Mentors support you with their knowledge, as well as with their personal and professional experience. They bolster your strengths, cultivate your ideas and plans, and analyse these alongside your goals and their feasibility. They provide constructive criticism and reflect on your development with encouragement.
Mentoring is offered by experienced university lecturers and is carried out in the form of so-called mentoring tandems. The mentoring tandems are selected in such a way that there is no conflict or competition between the partners. Mentors have no management or evaluation responsibility for mentees. For the mentoring process, 18 months is recommended. This may vary depending on the individual. The aim is to be involved in mentoring for the entire programme period.
The primary goal of collegial mentoring is to quickly get to grips with all university structures, including their stakeholders, networks and informa-tion sources. It is supervised by professors outside of your department.
There is also the possibility to be involved in professional mentoring as an alternative or as an addition to the collegial mentoring. This special support method offers you internal or external experts, such as your own colleagues or those from a related department. Specialist mentors from the broad network of DRESDEN-concept partners with a wide range of disciplines and, where appropriate, colleagues from other national and international contexts are also used.
Mentoring can also help you with your integration into the respective scientific community as well as with your professional development.
These guidelines provide mentees and mentors with advice and guidance on how to shape their mentoring relationship and their own role within it.