Becoming a mentee

The success of the mentoring depends on the mentee’s personal contribution. Your commitment and perseverance are required throughout the entire process. The FAUmentoring program ARIADNEphil does not offer ready-made solutions to your career questions. Rather, it is designed to enable you to develop individual strategies as part of career workshops, in a peer network or together with your mentor.

You can download the information flyer for ARIADNEphil here: Flyer ARIADNEphil 2024-2026 (in German)

You can download the slides from the information event on 18. March 2024 here: Slides information event ARIADNEphil (in German)

Sucess factors: proactive dasign of mentoring process, ambition to achieve the goals set, prepare for and follow up on meetings, giving & receiving feedback, willingness to be self-critical, confidentiality, reliability, appreciation Barriers: sense of entitlement, expectation of "ready-made solutions", lack of distance (topics too private), no assumption of responibility, violation of confidentiality & unreliability

Requirements

If you would like to participate in the program as a mentee, you should meet the following requirements:

  • A formal connection to the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology
  • You are a doctoral candidate or postdoctoral researcher
  • Interest in further academic qualification and a university career
  • Commitment and willingness to take the initiative in the mentoring process
  • Suitable questions for the mentoring
  • Objectives of what you want to achieve in the mentoring phase
  • Willingness to engage with constructive feedback
  • Willingness to take part in evening events and day workshops

Application and selection process

If you are doing your doctorate or habilitation at the Faculty of Humanities and Department of Theology at FAU, you can apply with the following documents:

  • completed profile form
  • CV
  • the most recent university certificate (doctoral candidates: degree certificate; postdocs, habilitation candidates: doctoral certificate)
  • if applicable, references, internship certificates, etc.

Next program start of ARIADNEphil: Mid 2026

Start of next application round: Late 2025

Please do not submit your application before the application period.