Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

Faculty of Catholic Theology

Faculty of Law

If you are interested please send an Email to:

tassula.proikas-cezannespam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

cc:
ma.haasspam prevention@student.uni-tuebingen.de

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:

Anmeldebogen für die Philosohische Fakultät

Anmeldebogen für die Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät

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.

• Cascade mentoring
• Target group: from BA student to MA, PhD student, postdoc, junior professor to professor  
• One-to-one mentoring
• Mentoring in the group  
• Basic module for mentor training
• Workshops for networking and further training of mentors and mentees
• Coordination of the central structure of the program by the Equal Opportunities Office
• Faculties set their own priorities
• Student assistants support the organization in the faculties

Fact sheet for mentees and mentors*

Mentoring-Agreement

Short description Athene Mentoring

Why do we need a mentoring program for women?

Handout for Mentors