Report date: 10.02.2024
Prepared by: Dr. Yamen AlSalka (Manager of mentoring team)
- Introduction:
Beginning of April 2021, the German-Syrian Research Society (Deutsch-Syrische Forschungsgesellschaft e. V.) has launched its mentoring program. The DSFG e. V. was established its mentoring program to bridge the need of networks between immigrant academics and their counterparts in Germany who were able to build life or career here, and to help the newcomers to overcome the obstacles like language, bureaucracy, integration, and culture to be able to pursue their education and dreams here in Europe.
The mentoring program aims to help Arabic students, scholars, and scientists to start their academic life in Germany. We as Arabic scholars and scientists in Germany have the moral obligation to act and be to help each other.
- Mentroing Team:
Management team: 7 volunteers
Mentors: 95 volunteer mentors by the end of 2023
- Mentorship cases:
From 01.01.2023 to 31.12.2023, 86 mentees have applied for our program. With the help of our mentors, 69 mentees have successfully completed their mentoring process. Unfortunately, due to a shortage of mentors in some fields, we were unable to offer mentoring to 17 mentees, mainly in IT, automation, and AI.
- General mentoring session:
A general mentoring session was organized on 30.07.2023 for 7 mentees who had general questions and needed general help and mentoring.
- Data from the completed cases:
The successfully completed cases mainly involved mentees from pharmaceutical & medical fields (36 %), engineering fields (24 %), and natural science (11 %). The majority of mentees (approx. 57 %) have applied to our program for mentoring in order to apply for a Master’s degree in Germany. Of these mentees, approximately 43 % were women helped by DSFG mentoring program.
