Project Goals

I. Tandem-Oriented Goals

The individual long-term support through the co-mentors can help the students to:

• Focus on their personal and academic strengths and expand their potential in a targeted fashion
• Experience themselves in an active and creative role
• Cope with career and personal obstacles self-confidently
• Increase their autonomy and emancipation

II. Life Planning

The individual long-term support through the co-mentors can help the students to:

• Develop their own perspective and expectations
• Handle the limitations and breaks they encounter during their life
• Appreciate and utilization of diversity
• Receive orientation support
• Become acquainted with different role models
• Boost their self-assertiveness and improve their self-organization skills
• Become competent in conflict resolution
• Develop their own views of what constitutes personal success
• Find solutions to problems and challenges that express their own wishes and needs

III. Study and Professional Planning

The individual long-term support through the co-mentor can help the students (to):

• Identify and plan the (future) focus of their academic studies
• Implement realistic time management and planning
• Identify the professional career they want to pursue and become acquainted with other professional environments (i.e. via internships etc, where possible)
• Establish networks both with their peers, the group of co-mentors and other project participants

IV. Socio-Political Goals

In the mid-term, the project will hopefully generate impulses on the socio-political level such as:

• Improved conditions for female academics both in the academia and the job markets
• Testing of a new, exemplary programme model for inclusive career support for women;
• Development of a set of recommended actions for the tertiary education sector in respect to gender-specific inclusion
• Practical implementation of the right to access to education stipulated in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities