Forum mentoring
The Mentoring Forum is a German federal association for mentoring in science . The association is based in Hanover .
Forum Mentoring e. V. sees itself as a nationwide platform for knowledge transfer, know-how exchange and networking on the subject of mentoring in science. The federal association represents the interests of the members in universities and scientific institutions and supports the development of mentoring offers in the area of gender-equitable personnel development and the promotion of young talent . In this context, the Mentoring Forum supports and uses the knowledge of its members, who meet twice a year at general meetings and also in various working groups.
Goals of the association
The goals of the federal association are the initiation, conceptual development and quality assurance of mentoring measures under aspects of equal opportunities in academic personnel development and the promotion of young talent.
The aim is to ensure that mentoring programs are permanently institutionalized as part of gender-equitable personnel management as part of universities, university hospitals and academic institutions. An institutional anchorage ensures the chances of real structural changes with regard to promotion mechanisms, active development and acquisition of women for senior and senior management positions as well as the visible female pioneering quality in science.
founding
The first nationwide meetings between coordinators of mentoring programs from different universities took place in 2001. A mentoring expert network was formed, which was formally established in 2006 with the establishment of the “Forum Mentoring eV” association and in June 2012 had over 100 members. In 2010 the association judged with the support of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth and think ING. , the initiative for the promotion of young talent of the employers' association Gesamtmetall , held the first nationwide mentoring congress and presented the mentoring quality standards to a public.
Mentoring in Science
In the German scientific landscape, mentoring can look back on a long tradition as an informal funding relationship. As a formal mentoring offer, i. H. in the form of modular programs, mentoring emerged in the late 1990s as part of gender equality work. The aim was to counteract the underrepresentation of women in certain specialist groups (MINT subjects) and in further academic careers.
As an effective personnel development tool, mentoring helps to counteract the steady decline in women with increasing scientific qualifications (“leaky pipeline”) and to attract and retain excellent young talent for science.
In particular with regard to the sustainable securing of the competitiveness and future viability of universities, they represent an important contribution to the qualification and increase of the next generation of academics as a creative approach to testing new forms of learning and teaching.
Quality standards
What most mentoring programs in science have in common is that in addition to the mentoring relationship - which can take place in various forms such as one-to-one, peer or group mentoring - through the modules "Training on key competencies" and " Networking offers ”are supplemented. There is great scope for design here.
Against this background and in view of the continuously increasing number of mentoring programs and systems (as student advice), quality assurance and development of this personnel development tool has become increasingly important.
In the opinion of the association, quality standards are essential. For this reason, the quality criteria developed by the “Quality Management in Mentoring” working group (2005–2008) form a central basis for the future development and design of mentoring programs. In this working group, mentoring coordinators from Forum Mentoring e. V. worked together with the Ada-Lovelace Association and the employers' association Gesamtmetall. The quality criteria were finally confirmed in 2010 at the mentoring congress of Forum Mentoring e. V. made available to the public in a modified form in the brochure Quality Standards in Mentoring and in spring 2012 by the new board of the Forum Mentoring e. V. further developed for the science sector (revised 2nd edition).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Members of the working group were: Carolin Bausum, Christel Buchinger, Wolfgang Gollub, Susanne Witteriede (Kiefer), Manuela Kieseier, Franziska Kluttig, Sybille Krummacher, Christine Kurmeyer, Carmen Leicht-Scholten, Vera Lohel, Regina Milatović, Sylvia Neuhäuser-Metternich, Helga Rudack, Roswitha Rump, Anette Schönborn, Linda Steger, Eva Wochnik, Henrike Wolf0.