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The Swiss TecLadies mentoring programme, which is unique in Switzerland, offers young women aged between 14 and 19 the opportunity to explore science and technology by accompanying them at various levels.
Registrations for the 2024/2025 edition are open from 19 February to 1 April 2024. To publicise this unique opportunity, Swiss TecLadies is launching a national communication campaign to invite young women from all over the country to register.
During seven months, the participants have the opportunity to receive individual support from experienced mentors and gain an insight into professional life. Through the programme's numerous activities, they can familiarise themselves with the diversity of technical professions while developing new skills and strengthening their personality. The mentoring programme also offers them the opportunity to join a community of motivated and inspiring women of all ages who are active in the fields of science and technology and to network with other young women with similar interests.
The programme will be launched on 28 September 2024 at the #wetechtogether conference in Zurich and will conclude on 5 April 2025 at the National Sports Centre in Tenero (Ticino). During these seven months, visits to companies and research institutions are on the programme, including CSEM (12.11.2024), Google (27.11.2024), CERN (31.01.2025), EPFL (8.03.2025), CSCS, SUPSI, USI and the Ideatorio. Personal development modules and workshops in project mode (with Intrinsic in Zurich on 1 - 2 November 2024 and 10 - 11 January 2025) round off the programme. The young women can also take part in all TecDays; TecDays are events at upper secondary schools that are dedicated to technology.
The programme is financially supported by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and the Werner Siemens Foundation.
More than 250 young women have benefited from the programme since 2018: The mentoring programme supports them and contributes to a change in mentality. This is fundamental to counteracting gender stereotypes and thus also the labour shortage in technical professions.
More information at tecladies.ch in German or French.
Would you like to conduct an interview with a mentor-mentee pair or a partner company of the project? Would you like to accompany us at events? Then get in touch with us.
