The accomplices: mentoring for students
| The accomplices: mentoring for students gGmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | profit company |
| founding | 2005 as an initiative, since July 2007 as a gGmbH |
| Seat | Munich |
| main emphasis | Education, personal development, equal opportunities, career orientation |
| method | Seminars, workplace tours, one-to-one mentoring |
| Action space | nationwide |
| people | Philip Scherenberg |
| Employees | about 20 |
| Volunteers | over 1000 volunteers |
| Website | www.die-komplizen.org |
The accomplices: Mentoring für Schüler gGmbH is a mentoring program for early career orientation of schoolchildren. The aim of the program is to make the transition from school to training or study easier for students. A combination of tests, seminars, workplace visits and personal mentoring enables the young people to find out their respective strengths and aptitudes. The program is aimed at public high schools and comprehensive schools. The Accomplices have also been advising private schools and boarding schools on setting up and implementing holistic career orientation concepts since 2014. In addition, there is a new offer for young people, the "O-Camp" for professional orientation during the holidays, which builds on experience and the network of accomplices and offers elements of the school program in a condensed form. In the weekend seminar "Parents O-Camp", mothers and fathers should be enabled to act as "mentors" to accompany their child in the career orientation process in a targeted manner.
history
Founded in 2005 by Philip Scherenberg in Munich , the accomplice program has developed rapidly. In 2007 the accomplices were honored by the innovation initiative Germany - Land of Ideas and were the organizers of the First German Youth Mentoring Fair in Munich. At the federal startsocial competition in 2008 and 2011, they won a three-month consulting grant. The program was introduced in Stuttgart and Munich in 2009, in Berlin and Hamburg in 2010 and in Augsburg in 2012 . Further locations were set up in Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. The company has been a member of the Alliance for Education of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the patronage of the former Federal Education Minister Annette Schavan since May 2011 .
Mentor and mentee
So far, students in grades ten and eleven of the grammar school type can take advantage of the program. Participation is independent of origin, religion, academic achievements or family background. At the beginning of the program, the students go through an interest test which, on the one hand, is intended to show the students their own potential and, on the other, is an elementary part of the individual mentor search. You will also attend a seminar that lays the foundation for the following program. At the kick-off , the official kick-off event, the mentees get to know their mentor, who advises and supports them individually in choosing a course or apprenticeship. They also have the opportunity to visit the mentors' workplaces and thus get a practical impression of various professions.
The volunteer mentors are usually between 25 and 39 years old. In preparation for their role, their mentors are offered free mentor training led by a professional coach .
Use
According to a study by the Hochschul-Informations-System from 2012, around 19% of all FH students drop out of their studies, at universities it is 35%. The mentoring program enables schoolchildren to exchange ideas with adult interlocutors outside of the dependency relationship of parents, teachers and friends in order to receive orientation and decision-making assistance from them when choosing a career and to get to know different professional fields. The development of their own network in the areas of training, career and occupation guarantees the students a lasting effect. An evaluation of the program in 2013 showed that less than 2% of the participants dropped out of their training or studies.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The accomplices - The program. In: Website of The Accomplices. Retrieved November 30, 2010 .
- ↑ The accomplices - About us. (No longer available online.) In: Website of The Accomplices. Archived from the original on December 12, 2010 ; Retrieved November 30, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Alliance for Education ( Memento from May 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ulrich Heublein, Johanna Richter, Robert Schmelzer, Dieter Sommer: The development of shrinkage and drop-out rates at German universities. (PDF) HIS Hochschul-Informations-System eG, 2012, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
