Mentoring for Postdocs - The Mentees Edition
June 2, 2025, (online) Zoom
Mentoring can be a powerful catalyst for personal and professional growth — especially during the postdoctoral phase. Yet successful mentoring relationships do not just happen; they require proactive engagement and a clear understanding of one's scope for action.
Mentoring for Postdocs – The Mentees Edition invites postdoctoral researchers at the University of Vienna to explore how they can actively shape and benefit from mentoring opportunities. Through a series of parallel sessions, we will present existing programmes, offer practical guidelines, and share inspiring experiences from peers.
The event is designed to support postdocs in identifying suitable mentors, making the most of available resources, and developing skills that strengthen mentoring relationships — whether within academia or beyond.
- When: Monday, 2 June 2025, 10:00–12:00
- Where: Online via Zoom
Join us to discover your options, hear from fellow postdocs, and start building the mentoring relationships that will support your future!
Programme
| Time | Session | Session |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10:15 | Introduction by the Postdoc Project: What's Mentoring got to do, got to do with it? | |
| 10:15-11:25 | Parallel Sessions Scope for action for mentees: programs, guidelines, voices from peers | |
| 10:15-10:45 | Accountability and Peers Saskia Lackner, LBG Career Center | |
| Mentoring offer for female postdocs Kerstin Tiefenbacher, Human Resources and Gender Equality, University of Vienne | ||
| Panel: How to shape a mentoring relationship as a mentee (part 1) Oleksandra Romaniuk and Nika Pende, both Mentees postdoc:muv, Magdalena Miklaszewska, former Rewire Fellow, Nicole Wedell von Leupoldt, KU Leuven, Thea Vidnes, Rewire | ||
| Change of Sessions | ||
| 10:55-11:25 | How Mentoring can support you in shaping your Future Ruth Gabler-Schachermayr, Alma Mentoring, University of Vienna | |
| Panel: How to shape a mentoring relationship as a mentee (part 2) Oleksandra Romaniuk and Nika Pende, both Mentees postdoc:muv, Magdalena Miklaszewska, former Rewire Fellow, Nicole Wedell von Leupoldt, KU Leuven, Thea Vidnes, Rewire | ||
| 11:25-12:00 | Get together: Summary with Graphic Recordings by Lana Lauren |
Registration
Contact
Postdocs Career Development
postdocs@univie.ac.at