Building on the success of our pilot round in 2024, Mentoring@CERN continues as a joint initiative of the Women in Technology (WIT) and LHC Early Careers Mentoring programmes.
Key dates for 2025:
- Informative Session: 30 January 2025
Join us for an online session to learn more about the programme, ask questions, and understand how mentorship can benefit your career at CERN. Registration details can be found in Indico. - Registration Period: 1 February – 28 February 2025
Applications for mentors and mentees will be open during this period. The application form will be available on Indico and will take less than 5 minutes to complete. - Matching Process: March 2025
During this phase, we will carefully review all applications to match mentors and mentees based on their goals, interests, and professional backgrounds. - Kick-Off Meeting: Beginning of April 2025
This session will provide practical tips, templates, and prompts to help participants establish a strong foundation for their mentorship journey. - Mentoring Round: April – December 2025
Once matched, mentors and mentees are free to meet at a frequency and schedule that suits them, enabling tailored guidance throughout the nine-month round. - Survey to the participants: January 2026
Who is eligible?
- To be eligible, you need to have a contract with CERN or be an external participant to an experiment or an external contractor (everyone from staff, fellow, student, user, PART or external contractor is invited to apply).
- We have no upper or lower limits for age or career level so anyone can apply to be a mentor or mentee – we select mentor-mentee pairs on a case-by-case basis.
- Mentors can have multiple mentees and a mentee can be both a mentor and a mentee at the same time, if they wish to.
More information can be found here: https://wit-hub.web.cern.ch/mentoring/ https://lhc-mentoring.web.cern.ch/
Behind the Scenes
Mentoring@CERN is a collaborative effort that brings together the expertise of two established programmes:
· The WIT mentoring programme, launched in 2018, which emphasised pairing mentors with female mentees.
· The LHC Early Career Mentoring Programme, initiated in 2020, which focused on connecting professionals across LHC experiments.
By merging these initiatives, we aim to make mentorship opportunities accessible to everyone in the CERN community.
