
Meet the team
Mentoring@CERN is a collaborative effort that brings together the expertise of two established programmes:
· The WIT mentoring programme, launched in 2018, which emphasised on developing transversal skills and pairing mentors with female mentees.
· The LHC Early Career Mentoring Programme, initiated in 2020, which focused on connecting professionals across LHC experiments.
By merging these initiatives, we aim to make mentorship opportunities accessible to everyone in the CERN community.
The Organizing Committee
The Organizing Committee is composed by volunteers from the LHC Early Career Scientists Fora and the WIT.
LHC ECSF (LHC Early Career Scientists Fora) | WIT (Women in Technology) |
Antra Gaile Bianca Sabiu Christian Appelt Eliot Jane Walton Gabriel Pinheiro Matos Hassnae El Jarrari Julia Carvalho Leite Lorenzo Paolucci Olaf Steinkamp Piera Battista | Barbara Binder Penelope Quassolo Simona Kriva Weronika Krol |
Numbers through the years
Find below the number of participants per programme and per year.
Year | WIT | LHC | Mentoring @CERN |
2018 | 11 | / | / |
2019 | 12 | / | / |
2020 | 15 (4 alumni) | 25 | / |
2021 | 20 (11 alumni) | 20 | / |
2022 | 32 (6 alumni) | 28 | / |
2023 | 48 (9 alumni) | 35 | / |
2024 | / | / | 91 (14 alumni) |
2025 | / | / | 78 |
TOTAL | 138 | 108 | 169 |
Mentees gender | Female | Male | Other |
2018 | 11 | 0 | |
2019 | 11 | 0 | |
2020 | 15 | 0 | |
2021 | 19 | 1 | |
2022 | 30 | 1 | |
2023 | 39 | 9 | |
2024 | 62 | 27 | 2 |
2025 | 45 | 33 | |
TOTAL | 232 | 71 | 2 |
Mentors gender | Female | Male |
2018 | 10 | 1 |
2019 | 10 | 1 |
2020 | 11 | 4 |
2021 | 16 | 4 |
2022 | 19 | 12 |
2023 | 29 | 14 |
2024 | 38 | 33 |
2025 | 31 | 33 |
TOTAL | 164 | 102 |
