Information on EAA mentoring program
| General information |
| The goal of the mentoring program is to establish long-term links between early career acousticians and experienced seniors in order to consolidate the coherence of the EAA and establish bridges between the generations: senior-junior bridges.
More and updated information is on the website: https://euracoustics.org/products/mentoring/. · This is a volunteering activity. · Mentoring pairs are o preferably trans-national. o 1-on-1 pairings. · During EAA conferences, mentoring meetups will be organized by the YAN to enrich the mentoring connections. · Organization and content within the mentoring pairs are highly individual. · We recommend continuous (online) meeting in the first year with intervals of max. two months between meetings to establish and strengthen the mentoring connection. |
| Registration procedure will be released soon and will start on February 1st, 2023. |
| Matching procedure |
| · Deadlines for the registration procedure and important dates will be announced on the EAA website.
· The list of volunteer mentors/seniors is posted on the website. · Matchings are done manually via YAN with respect to given preferences by the mentees/ juniors. · YAN will contact and link the mentoring pairs. · First contact should be initiated by the mentees by introducing themselves, reasons to join the mentoring program and setting up a meeting. · Options to have a first meeting are provided at yearly EAA conferences. · Every mentoring program participant is invited to join the YAN mentoring kick-off (if possible: hybrid option). |
| Conference activities |
| · Mentoring in-person kick-off
o Intro + Summary from previous year’s participants o Information (How Tos/ examples) o Get-to-know/ Meet-up · Evaluation after one year (1 month before next EAA conference) via questionnaire · Proposed individual meetups o Meetup for lunch o Meetup for poster sessions and walk around o Join technical tours together o +1 & +1 meetup (senior brings another senior & junior brings another junior) |
| Duties of mentors/ seniors |
| · Discuss with juniors about the profession
· Give human and career advices (no liability) · Give technical advices (if requested) · Promote EAA products · Participate to mentoring meetups organized during EAA conferences (when participating to the conference) |
| Duties of mentees/ juniors |
| · Initiate contacting the mentor and proposed possible dates for next meetings
· Prepare for each meeting: e.g., sending questions in forehand, have report ready if where tasks were defined in the previous meeting · Participate to mentoring meetups organized during EAA conferences (when participating to the conference). · Do not expect the mentor to be a “door-opener” or similar. |
For further questions, you can contact us via mail at yan@euracoustics.org or reach out to us via Discord (https://discord.com/invite/bHWwHHY).
