WISO-Mentoring
WISO-Mentoring is a program for the promotion of early career researchers in the Faculty of Business, Economics & Social Science and has already been run successfully four times. The mentoring program is aimed at holders of qualification positions, i.e. doctoral candidates and postdocs interested in academic career opportunities and whishing to actively plan and advance their career.
WISO Mentoring offers a multifaceted program, provides individual support to participants by offering them professional guidance and highlighting the opportunities presented by a career in science.
The program begins in May 2018 and is set to end in June 2019. The program elements will be held in German and/or English, according to the participants' needs.
The next round of the WISO mentoring will take place from September 2019 - June 2020.
Detailed information on the programm will follow soon here.
Objectives
WISO-Mentoring
- supports young scientists at the faculty of Business, Economics and Social Science
- provides career-planning support and enhaces the chance for a successfull academic career
- supports in building and developing an academic network
Program
Program items | Content |
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Framework program |
A framework program consisting in four half-day or daily modules. Participants contribute in defining the thematic content of these events. |
Individual Coaching |
The participants benefit from an individual coaching on subjects of their own choice such as for example: research funding, career planning and reconciliation, working life as a researcher, preparation for an appointment procedure, mobility, etc. |
One-to-one Mentoring |
One-to-one Mentoring designates a system of relation between an experienced senior scientist (mentor) and a younger less experienced junior scientist (mentee). A mentor supports beyond normal supervisor - subordinates dependencies, gives advice, introduces into networks and helps understanding mechanisms and unwritten rules of an organization. In the WISO-Mentoring, the mentees chose a professor (from the University of Bern or an other university) who accompanies them during the duration of the program. The coordinator assists the mentees in their search for a mentor and usually establishes the first contact. Ideally, both parties are working and researching in different institutions in a similar or related domain so as professional interests are overlapping. The mentoring tandem maintain a regular exchange independently from the framework program. Mentee and mentor agree upon the form and the intensity of their exchange individually. |
Peer-Mentoring |
Peer-Mentoring stands for the networking and mutual support of junior scientists (mentees) within or beyond the own level of formation and department. The framework program enables the participants to exchange among each other and to reflect upon their own career. |
Dates and deadlines
Program time | May 2018 - June 2019 |
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Modul 1: Kick-off, Topic: Network training
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17 May 2018 |
Modul 2: Topic: Career planning | 18 October 2018 |
Modul 3: Topic: Done being nice! | 28 February 2019, 13.15 - 17.00, Hauptgebäude, room 117 |
Modul 4: Closing event, Topic: tbd | June 2019 |
Application Deadline for the WISO Mentoring 2019 - 2020 | 30 April 2019 |
Prerequisites for attending
You are a doctoral student or a postdoc researcher at the faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Bern, interested in academic career paths and would like to actively plan and push forward your carreer.
You are willing to engage with the academic career, to participate in the different program items, you are interested in exchanging with other young researchers and bring an open mind for external suggestions and critics (One-to-One Mentoring, Coaching).
The maximal number of participants is 15.
Selection criteria
- Guarantee of the funding and employment situation during the program.
- Motivation to participate in the WISO-Mentoring and the thereof expected benefits for the own academic career.
- Gender*.
The selection is made by the program direction. Acceptance or refusals are communicated to the candidates by E-mail.
*Because of the low proportion of women professors at the faculty, the program direction reserves the right to limit the proporition of male participants to one third.
Program coordination and program directors
Program Coordination
- Name / Titel
- lic. ès. sc. pol. Miriam Ganzfried
- Funktion
- Koordinatorin Qualitätssicherung und Gleichstellung, WISO Fakultät
- miriam.ganzfried@wisodek.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 87 08
Program directors

- Name / Titel
- Prof. Dr. Michael Gerfin
- michael.gerfin@vwi.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 40 92
- Phone2
- +41 31 631 39 74

- Name / Titel
- Prof. Dr. Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen
- Funktion
- Chair of Comparative Politics
- isabelle.stadelmann@ipw.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 83 55
- Phone2
- +41 31 631 83 31

- Name / Titel
- Prof. Dr. Harley Krohmer
- harley.krohmer@imu.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 80 31
Application
Please submit your application until April 30 2019 with the Online-Application form.
Your information will be treated strictly confidential and not passed on to third parties.
If you have any questions, please contact miriam.ganzfried@wisodek.unibe.ch.