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Welcome to the homepage of the LHC Early Career Mentoring Programme!

The LHC Early Careers Mentoring Committee and CERN’s Women in Technology group have teamed up to launch a new and unique mentoring programme: Mentoring@CERN.
After a successful pilot round which started in April 2024, the programme is coming back for a new round in 2025.

Key dates for 2025:

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 details can be found on Indico.
Registration Period: 1 February – 28 February 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

Who is eligible?

To be eligible, you need to have a contract with CERN or be an external participant to an experiment or an external contractor (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.

If you want to know more about what mentoring means, both for mentors and for mentees, you are invited to browse the Resources section.

Do not hesitate to contact us in case of questions.