Peer mentoring means that researchers work together for a year in a closed group on their professional development. The members of the group have knowledge, competence and experience advantages in different areas, which they make accessible to each other.
This contributes to the expansion of the personal network beyond one's own area of work and makes possible, for example:
- a quick orientation of new employees,
- the development of new career steps
- or finding solutions to challenges in everyday work
- expansion of leadership and team work skills.
Each year, a new cohort of the peer mentoring is started. The group is accompanied by external trainers and the PostDoc Office as needed.
The (closed) call for the 2024-25 team is here. The next call will open in January 2025.
Learn more: podcast episode about the programme.
Other mentoring programmes: The European University Alliance Arqus offers an international mentoring programme for pre- and postdoctoral researchers. More information here, alongside an overview of all mentoring formats at the University of Graz.