Concluded projects

of the Institute of Conflict Research

Evaluation of the second Mentoring Programme at the University of Vienna

Project Management:	Mag.a Dr.in Helga Amesberger
Project Team:	Mag.a Dr.in Helga Amesberger Mag.a Karin Bischof
Financed by:	University of Vienna, Department of Women’s Advancement and Gender Equality
Concluded in	October 2006
	German

Forty junior women researchers and women scientists from different disciplines and from all departments took part in the three-semester Mentoring Programme. The underlying idea was to advance the academic careers of the participants, who were divided into ten groups, each of them supported by a professor from the University of Vienna, by assisting them in building career networks and setting up mentoring relationships. It was for the first time that the programme was evaluated at a representative level. The emphasis of the evaluation was on the impact on the participants and their careers as well as on structural problems which arose during the mentoring process. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative research methods, we surveyed the acceptance and satisfaction of the mentees as well as concrete changes and advances in their individual careers generated by the mentoring-programme. Moreover, we examined how personal/individual expectations materialised and in what way the participants benefited from the programme. Finally, we proposed a number of recommendations for future programmes. Altogether the Mentoring Programme lived up to its set goals and was very favourably judged by the mentees.

[GERMAN]