ARIADNEtechnat
FAUmentoring ARIADNEtechnat is the career mentoring program for young female scientists at FAU’s Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Sciences.
The program supports and accompanies female students, doctoral candidates, post-doctoral researchers and W1 professors individually on their academic qualification path.
ARIADNEtechnat is part of the Target agreements for increasing the proportion of women in science 2023-2027, which were concluded between the university executive and each faculty of FAU.
ARIADNE is operating according to the quality standards of the Forum Mentoring e.V..
Next programme starts:
ARIADNEtechnat master 2024: October 2024, Application period expired
ARIADNEtechnat doc/postdoc+ 2025/26: July 2025, Application period: starting in September 2024
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What does ARIADNE offer?
The key element of the program is an one-to-one mentoring, in which a less experienced person (mentee) is individually advised on strategic and practical career crafting by an experienced scientist of a higher qualification level (mentor). The idea of mentoring is a proven instrument from the field of human resources development.
The mentoring is accompanied by a qualification-specific framework program including career workshops and network meetings. Since 2020 the communication and event language of ARIADNETechNat is English to guarantee international female scientists unrestricted access to the program.
The special characteristic of ARIADNE is the faculty-specific design of the individual programms, which provides major advantages for mentees:
- Mentees are given the opportunity to network with peers from their faculty
- The career workshop program can be tailored to the individual needs of the group
Participation in the program supports the mentees in approaching their academic career in a targeted manner. The benefits for the mentee lie in
- gaining valuable insights into the personal experiences of a professionally advanced person who is working successfully in academia
- the acquisation of knowledge about structures and processes at university
- the acquisation of career-relevant key qualifications and
- the opportunity to expand the peer-network
Type of mentoring
ARIADNE deliberately does not provide a professional supervision but rather interdisciplinary mentoring. In order to rule out hierachical relationships, role conflicts or other reasons for bias between mentee and mentor, mentors do not come from the same scientific field of the mentee. However, the matching is carried out within the faculty, since a certain degree of subject proximity or similarities in academic culture and qualification paths are advantageous for the mentoring and increase the benefit for the mentee.The mentoring is a supplement to academic supervision and offers space for open and trusting exchange about individual questions on academic career crafting with an independent person.
In exceptional cases, mentors from the equal academic field are possible if hierarchical dependencies and biases can be ruled out. The most important criterion for matching is that the mentor is able to advise the mentee on the majority of her mentoring topics.
In the matching process, the mentee initially remains anonymous by name. Based on the needs and wishes expressed in the application process, the mentee receives a suggestion for a potential mentor from the ARIADNE coordination. Enquiries to potential mentors are then only made after the mentee has given her consent.
Information material
ARIADNEtechnat comes in qualification-specific varieties
ARIADNEtechnat master
ARIADNEtechnat master is designed for female Master’s students and students with state examination degree. The program offers one-to-one supervision by an experienced scientist as well as a framework program consisting of workshops and other events on career-relevant topics. Network meetings of the ARIADNEtechnat mentees and all ARIADNE mentees of the FAU complete the programme.
You can look up the offered events of the current ARIADNEtechnat program here.
All details regarding next program starts and the application can be found here.
ARIADNEtechnat doc/postdoc+
ARIADNEtechnat doc/postdoc+ is designed for female doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers (postdocs, Habilitandinnen, junior professors). The program offers one-to-one mentoring by an experienced scientist as well as a comprehensive career workshop program and network meetings.
You can look up the events of the current ARIADNEtechnat program here.
The doc program runs parallel to the postdoc program. Doctoral and postdoctoral researchers essentially form a mentee group.
Postdocs will receive specialised training on postdoc-specific topics such as professorship appointments.
All details regarding the next programm starts and the application can be found here.