Promoting Women Researchers through Mentoring Eument-Net as a Basis for a European Network of Mentoring Programmes for Women in Academia and Research

Abstract

In the last decades, mentoring programmes have established themselves among the most prominent instruments implemented in European countries for promoting women in higher education. However, a closer look reveals that in many cases academic mentoring programmes are not (yet) secured on a long-term basis and their position inside the academic institutions often remains precarious. Moreover, in many EU countries, mentoring programmes for the promotion of women in academy and research are altogether nonexistent.