The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar offers a mentoring programme especially for female and/or TIN* doctoral candidates and postdocs. The call for applications is usually opened in the winter term of each year. WISA+ is funded by the Programme for female professors III of the federal government and the federal states.
With WISA+ Women in Science and Arts, the Equal Opportunities Office, in cooperation with the Bauhaus Research School, supports motivated female and TIN* doctoral candidates and postdocs in their current qualification project, and their professional as well as academic development.
The mentoring programme combines peer mentoring with coaching, workshops and exchange events. Mentees meet in groups to exchange experiences and carry out peer group activities. The programme also includes networking and information events as well as workshops on career planning and skills training for all mentees. The focus of all activities is on promoting individual development and providing advice and support for planned (academic) careers.
The mentoring programme thrives strongly on the willingness of the mentees to participate in the framework programme, to take part in the peer groups and to help shape the activities within the group.
Mentoring aims
- Support and mentoring of the doctoral and postdoctoral process
- (inter-)disciplinary knowledge exchange and promotion of networking across institutional borders
- Reflection and active implementation of potentials and strategies for one's own career-specific career steps, especially also in the context of gender-specific hurdles
- Identification, optimisation and use of competences and potentials for individual career goals
- Clarifying one's own professional goals and needs and first steps towards achieving them
What we offer
- Introduction to collegial counselling
- Regular, self-organised meetings of the mentees, among other things for collegial counselling
- Internal workshops on self-selected topics (up to two dates per semester)
- Mentoring Day with alumni talks and input from internal and external speakers
- Payment of the participation fee for two courses at the Bauhaus Research School of your choice
- (Group) coachings with external coaches with a focus of your choice
- Payment of up to € 250 for travel and accommodation costs to events within the scope of mentoring.
Participation in mentoring is confirmed by a certificate. The estimated number of hours is app. 6 hours per month.
Schedule of the mentoring programme
January | Introductory phase
- Kick-off meeting incl. introduction into your role as mentee on 17.07.2024 from 10 am to 3 pm
- Group finding
- Training on the method of collegial case consultations
- Planning of meetings, workshops, and events
February - December| Intensification phase
- Peer group meetings and collegial case consultations
- workshops and fire-side chats scheduled on 17.04.2024 and 05.07.2024 as well as on two additional to be fixed dates in October and December 2024
January | Final phase
- final event
- evaluation
You can submit your application online until 15 December 2023. The Equal Opportunity Office and the Bauhaus Research School will decide about the admission to the several mentoring programme afterwards.
WISA+ 2023/24 is limited to a maximum of 10 mentees.