Advice & ExperiencesMentoring
Create the Future Together – Targeted Networking for Degree, Research, Job and Life
With mentoring, HAI offers structured contact to committed network members at home and abroad. Students, alumni, staff and researchers at Heidelberg University can quickly benefit from the tips and expertise of others in the network. Anyone who would like to get involved and pass on experiences from their own daily work and living environment can do so in mentoring as well.
Join in
More than 150 network members from 29 countries who would like to share their experiences are already available as mentors with individual, meaningful profiles.
- Are you looking for tips for your academic, professional or private future?
You can either use our online platform HAInet to select suitable mentors by yourself on the basis of individual, informative profiles and contact them via a form, or you can seek advice from HAI in advance and receive support in selecting and contacting them.
- Would you like to share your experience and knowledge with others?
Then become a mentor and shape a piece of the future together with other members of the network!
Mentoring Areas
In the following, you will find the main areas of mentoring at HAI. In addition, mentors can of course also contribute their expertise on other topics - just as mentees can also address other concerns that are relevant to them.
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DEGREE
- Student Financing
- Going Abroad
- Changing Subjects
- Exam Preparation
- ...
RESEARCH
- Doctorate/PostDoc
- Research Funding
- Exchange of Experiences
- Peer Reviewing
- …
CAREER
- Career Management
- Job Hunting Strategies
- Application Process
- Advanced Training
- …
MOBILITY
- Relocation
- Integration
- Culture
- Socializing
- …
Voices on Mentoring
I recommend that all students who have questions/uncertainties about internships, applications or starting a career look for a mentor. You can get support for various issues, and I've had very good experiences with this. The personal exchange with my mentor alone was extremely helpful and he was also able to give me valuable tips.
Isabelle Zoz, Germany – Mentee on Career
Isabelle became my first mentee because she stumbled across the Mentor Programme by chance. Unfortunately, as was the case in my time, the programme is still very unknown among students and I hope that this will change soon. For that, I was all the more impressed by her self-confidence, courage, friendliness and respect from the first day she made contact.
Julien Appler, Germany – Mentor on Studies and Career
I'm happy to help with topics related to cultural studies, questions about stays abroad via ERASMUS and tips on writing academic papers in German and English. But I am also happy to provide support for lateral entry into the IT sector or living in Germany as an immigrant.
Jessica Orsolani-Uhlig, Germany – Mentor on Studies, Career, Mobility