|**Title:		**|**Mentoring programme X-Ment**|
|**Implementation**|{{wiki:1.png?nolink}}|
|**Field(s) of Action:**|@#A9BCF5: * Presence and Visibility|
|**Objectives:**|* Support of men and in particular of women in career development and career progress (KIT is endeavouring to promote both sexes equally) \\ * Gender sensitivity and gender aspects in the entire programme|
|**Target Group(s): **|PhD students, PhD candidates and research assistants\\ Postdocs and mid-career scientific personnel\\ Professors|
|**Description:	**|The mentoring programme is designed to support researchers, especially graduates/doctoral researchers and postdoctoral researchers working in the organisation. Researchers are supported by a mentor to enlarge their scientific network and to develop their own personality. As a good preparation for their professional career process, this mentoring programme is helping them to move towards a professorship or a position in a private sector. The programme includes the following:\\ * One-to-one mentoring: Participants receive personal support over the course of a year from an experienced person (female or male) from a higher qualification level at a university or a non-university research institution or corporate organisations.\\ * Training and workshop programmes: Training sessions and workshops allow mentees to expand their skills and prepare for a career in research or Private Corporation. In addition there are collegial coaching sessions for exchange and mutual learning from each other.\\ * Networking events: exchange and network formation, new impulses from other participants|
|**More information:**|Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) \\ Contact: Simone Belgardt\\ simone.belgardt@kit.edu\\ Website: http://www.peba.kit.edu/1009.php|