Athene Mentoring for women Students and Scientists
The Athene Mentoring Program is aimed at women studying, in the doctoral and post-doctoral phase as well as female professors and supports women in pursuing a scientific qualification, both if they see their future in science and if they see their professional future outside of science. The aim of Athene Mentoring is to counteract the loss of women in the course of scientific qualification and to interest female students and scientists in the next qualification levels at an early stage.
The focus is on the special situation of women in the academic system and at the university and on counteracting discrimination.
Current Events
Introductory Workshops for Mentors
Friday, February 14, 2025 from 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM for Master’s students & postdocs
Friday, March 14, 2025 from 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM for doctoral researchers & professors
Athene Mentoring is implemented in the faculties. The program is specifically adapted to the conditions in the individual faculties and subjects and is designed differently.
Women encounter very specific problems during their studies, during their academic qualification and even as professors. Their difficulties are often attributed - even by themselves - to individual deficits, although they are actually rooted in their situation as women. Women are therefore in a fundamentally different situation to men when studying and working in academia. They always have to prove their individual performance against the background of a whole range of discriminatory factors. A mentoring program for women helps them to be aware of these discriminatory factors and to learn methods to deal with them successfully and to repeatedly name them as such in the university environment.
The Athene Mentoring Program is aimed at women from BA student to MA, PhD, postdoc, junior professor to professor
Athene Mentoring supports women in pursuing an academic qualification, both if they see their future in academia and if they see their professional future outside academia.
The focus is on the special situation of women in the academic system and at the university and on counteracting discrimination.
The program is a so-called cascade mentoring, in which women from one qualification level are mentored by the level above them. The mentoring is intended to increase the proportion of women in Master's degrees, doctorates and ultimately professorships. Exit strategies from academia are also supported where necessary. The mentoring relationships are flanked by workshops for networking within the various career levels and for further training both in terms of general key qualifications and specifically on the situation of women in studies and science.
The aim of Athene Mentoring is to counter the loss of women in the course of academic qualification and to interest female students and academics in the next qualification levels at an early stage.
The focus is on the special situation of women in the academic system and at the university and on counteracting discrimination.
If you are interested in Athene Mentoring, please write directly to your faculty. Alternatively, you can write to us directly and we will pass you on!
Female* academics and students* from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences can register for Athene Mentoring from now until November 30, 2023:
How long has the Athene Mentoring Program been in existence?
Athene Mentoring was launched in the winter semester 2021/22, with the Faculty of Catholic Theology, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences initially participating. In the summer semester of 2022, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences was added and in the summer semester of 2023 the Faculty of Law, so that almost all faculties now have the opportunity to participate in the Athene Mentoring Program.
