Inauguration of the project was carried out online and in such a manner also mentor-mentee pair meetings will largely take place. Despite the pandemic we have managed to break another record in terms of the number of pairs – this year there are as many as 51 of them. Probably ‘a team’ would be a better term here as some of the mentors agreed to cooperate with two or three mentees.
What does the Mentorship Project consist in? Probably Dariusz Lis from InnoMentors Consulting, one of the most engaged members, described it best during inauguration of the 8th edition.
- Is it more mentoring or coaching? I prefer the latter first, as frequently the goal of a mentee is not fully determined and first, we need to ask ourselves relevant questions. When we already have it, that is when we proceed to the actual mentoring and we specify expectations and goals. Finally, we leave the mentoring process and jointly prove that in fact the young person has all the answers inside – said UL VIP Alumnus.
UL VIP Mentoring is one of the parts of a bigger project i.e., UL VIP ALUMNI. It includes, among others, expert lectures with participation of specialists in many fields, and official ceremonial awarding of symbolic apples and expanding the circle of outstanding graduates of the University of Lodz. Currently the University of Lodz has 221 VIP Alumni and is ready to constantly expand this representation.
This is how it was a year ago, during the 7th inauguration of the Programme:
The 7th edition (Photo: M. Andrzejewski, Promotion Centre, UL) - photorelation
University of Lodz is one of the biggest universities in Poland. Its mission is to educate top-class scientists and specialists in numerous fields of humanities, social sciences, natural and exact sciences as well as health sciences. UniLodz cooperates with business, both at the staff level by providing qualified employees as well as at the scientific level, by offering its know-how to enterprises from various areas of economy. University of Lodz is an academic institution open to the world – the number of its international students is constantly growing, while its Polish students, thanks to Exchange programmes, get to know Europe, Asia and travel overseas. The University is a part of Lodz, it operates for and with the community of Lodz by getting involved in many socio-cultural projects.
Source: Centre for External Relations, UL
Edit: Promotion Centre, UL