Building on the success of our pilot round in 2024, Mentoring@CERN is a joint initiative of the Women in Technology (WIT) and LHC Early Careers Mentoring programmes.

This programme provides a unique opportunity for individuals with an affiliation to CERN to engage in meaningful mentorship relationships, fostering professional growth and personal development and facilitate networking.

Who is eligible?

• To be eligible, you need to have a contract with CERN (everyone from staff, fellow, student, user, PART or external contractor is invited to apply).

• We have no upper or lower limits for age or career level so anyone can apply to be a mentor or mentee – we select mentor-mentee pairs on a case-by-case basis.

• Mentors can have multiple mentees and a mentee can be both a mentor and a mentee at the same time, if they wish to.

Right now the 2025 programme is ongoing: wait for the next round of 2026 to take part!

• Informative Session: 30 January 2025 Join us for an online session to learn more about the programme, ask questions, and understand how mentorship can benefit your career at CERN.
  

• Registration Period: 1 February – 2 March 2025 Applications for mentors and mentees will be open during this period. The application form will be available on Indico and will take less than 5 minutes to complete.
  

• Matching Process: March 2025 During this phase, we will carefully review all applications to match mentors and mentees based on their goals, interests, and professional backgrounds.
  

• Kick-Off Meeting: Beginning of April 2025 This session will provide practical tips, templates, and prompts to help participants establish a strong foundation for their mentorship journey.
  

• Mentoring Round: April – December 2025 Once matched, mentors and mentees are free to meet at a frequency and schedule that suits them, enabling tailored guidance throughout the nine-month round.
  

• Survey to the participants: January 2026

The Mentoring @ CERN 2025 programme (II edition) is now taking place: you can wait for the next round informative session, where you will also find out about key dates, in particular the Registration Period. The application form for Mentees will be open for about 1 month. If you wish to take part as a Mentor, you can appply all-year round here.

When applying, you will be asked to fill a form which will likely take less than 5 minutes to complete. You are also asked to attach your CV and a short motivation letter.

We ask for this information to help us to find the most compatible mentor/mentee to help you to achieve your goals. We do this by manually looking through each application so the more information that you can provide, the better!

Details about how we will use, store and later delete your data can be found on this page.

For any questions regarding the program, please, contact us: mentoring.cern@cern.ch