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M2m: A girls mentoring program at UPC-BarcelonaTECH

M2m is a mentoring experience for academic women at UPC-BarcelonaTECH, aimed at providing support, guidance, and skills development. Mentors are experienced women from the academic environment, while mentees are young women looking to promote themselves in academia. The program aims to break the glass ceiling and help women progress in their chosen field.

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M2m: A girls mentoring program at UPC-BarcelonaTECH

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  1. M2m: A girls mentoring program at UPC-BarcelonaTECH Silvia Gómez-Castán, Angels Serrat, Dídac Ferrer, Alícia Linares, Cristina Muntañola, Nuria Salán UniversitatPolitècnica de Catalunya, UPC-BarcelonaTECH OGSIO, UPC-Alumni, UPC-Student Council http://www.upc.edu/igualtat oficina.igualtat@upc.edu

  2. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Once upon a time... • Ariadna Project (Catalonia Government) • Female mentoring experience for academic • Mentors: Experienced women from academic environment • Mentees: Young women who wanted to promote themselves in academic environment

  3. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC And we continue the experience at home... What do we need?

  4. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Finding elements for a “perfect” mentoring project...

  5. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Mentors: experienced women Professor & Alumni • Academic • Enterprise • Industry • ... Teaching from experience

  6. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Mentees: women who want to acquire experience Master&PhD students Future goals: • Academic • Enterprise • Industry… Learning from experience

  7. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Objectives & Enviroment: framework Training to • Academic • Enterprise • Industry Guidelines definition Providing soft skills

  8. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Workplan: An academic term (october-june) • Requirements • Availability • Schedule Help to find sharing space and time

  9. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC M2m Pilot Experience (2013) • 7 pairs M-m • Meeting schedule • Activities guidelines • Topics • Sharing experiences • Learning together

  10. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Purpose of experience? • Providing help to female master-PhD students to develop professional and soft skills, in addition to knowledge and academic skills acquisition • Providing help to break women “glass ceiling”

  11. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Purpose of experience? • Main aim of academia/university? • Knowledge transfer • Skills and personality drawing... usually from models • Male model (> 30%) • Female model (< 30%) • Mentoring project as a equilibrium activity

  12. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Experience drawing • Collaboration of female students in master-PhD programs (called “m”) who want to progress in a particular field • Contribution of women alumni, experts in several fields (called “M”), related to “m” expertise requirements

  13. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Experience drawing • UPC-Interdisciplinar coordination team • Teaching and Research (M-coordination for mentors) • Administration Staff & Alumni (training, program design and data collection) • Student (m-coordination for mentees) • Supporting platform (for M&m) • References & papers related to women-tech, glass-ceiling, gender and diversity, equality opportunities... • Surveys and data collection (feedback)

  14. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC M2m - 2014 • 15 pairs M-m • Enterprise-Industry • Academics • Glass ceiling • Work&family balance • How to promote

  15. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC M2m – 2015 (just on starting point!!) • 25 pairs M-m ↑↑Enterprise-Industry • HP collaboration • Academics • Work&family balance • Glass ceiling • How to promote • Fem talent

  16. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Preliminary (starting point) • Workshop (coach activity)& Training • M • m • M & m objectives definition (different point of view but same final goal) • m-action plan design (and feedback collection) Alumni and OGSIO

  17. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Development • Face-to-face monthly meetings (or skype), • M • m • Guidelines and topics • Personnel requirements (if needed) • Confidentiallity agreement • Feedback report from M&m (important!!) • Every pair has its way... Depending on schedules

  18. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Development • Join meeting (march) • M • m • Coach session • Brainstorming & organization team

  19. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC Development • Join meeting (march) • M • m • Coach session • Brainstorming • Entertainment (cupcakes, HP-canvas workshop) & organization team

  20. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC And now? • Collecting assessment data (survey) • Working in present M2m edition • Drawing next M2m edition (how much “in extenso”?) • Thinking in profiles of mentoring: • M♀-m♀ • M♀-m♂ Why not?

  21. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPC M2m present and future… When everything is done, everything is done... Suma i creix!!

  22. M2m: a MentoringExperience at UPCTobecontinued... Silvia Gómez-Castán, Angels Serrat, Dídac Ferrer, Alícia Linares, Cristina Muntañola, Nuria Salán UniversitatPolitècnica de Catalunya, UPC-BarcelonaTECH OGSIO, UPC-Alumni, UPC-Student Council http://www.upc.edu/igualtat oficina.igualtat@upc.edu

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