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05/24/2018 | Campus-Meldung

Diversity Day launches career mentoring Divers with 16 new participants

Career Mentoring Divers starts into a new round: On Tuesday, 05 June 2018, the President of the University of Kassel, Prof. Dr. Reiner Finkeldey, welcomes the 16 new mentees at a festive event. At the same time, the participants of the last cohort will receive their certificates. Prof. Dr. Claudia Brinker-von der Heyde, former Vice President of the University of Kassel, will give this year's keynote speech on the topic: Talking about diversity is easy, living diversity is often a challenge.

Career Mentoring Divers is one of three profile-building measures at the University of Kassel that were implemented as part of the Stifterverband's diversity audit "Shaping Diversity". The program has been in place since 2012 and is aimed at female students and doctoral candidates in all subjects at the University of Kassel. The goal of the one-year mentoring program is to support participants in their career orientation and career entry.

In its work, the career mentoring DIVERS follows the self-image of the University of Kassel as an open, inclusive and intercultural university that values different life plans, understands the diversity of its members as a productive resource and prevents discrimination based on personal and social characteristics. The DIVERS mentoring program therefore accepts in particular women who, due to their personal biography and/or their commitment to the topic of diversity, are particularly suited to contribute to the promotion of diversity, the reduction of prejudices within the university, and intercultural and interdisciplinary networking among the participants of the mentoring program.

In addition, Career Mentoring DIVERS is also visible outside the University of Kassel. The kick-off event for the 2018-2019 cohort is one of the many actions registered for the 6th German Diversity Day, which will be celebrated this year on 05 June 2018. The University of Kassel is thus participating for the second time in the initiative launched by the "Diversity Charter", which annually mobilizes a large number of institutions and companies to present their activities in the field of action diversity to an interested public.

Date: Tuesday, 05 June 2018, 18.00 h, s.t.
Venue: Gießhaus of the University of Kassel, Möncheberg 5, 34217 Kassel
Registration: Registration is requested! Contact: mentoring-divers@uni-kassel.de
Link to event program: www.uni-kassel.de/themen/fileadmin/datas/themen/mentoring-divers/Programm_Festveranstaltung_2018-19.pdf Link to Diversity Day: www.charta-der-vielfalt.de/diversity-tag/

Contact:

Katarzyna Friedrich-Fil
Coordinator Diversity Women's and Equal Opportunity Office
Tel.: +49 561 804-7797
E-Mail: katarzyna.friedrich-fil@uni-kassel.de