Mentoring Program
"Doing a PhD is a long-distance run. Don't run it alone!"
CERGE-EI offers a free mentoring program supporting women in their PhD studies, helping them to define career goals and the steps needed to achieve them. The program is open to students from other universities (and fields other than economics).
The program goal is to strengthen support for PhD students, encouraging them to pursue a successful research career. A specifically designed 6-hour workshop will be offered, followed by a series of follow-up meetings with special guests and CERGE-EI alumni (sharing experiences of their work in academia, the private sector, and international organizations). Funded by the US Embassy in Prague in 2018 and by the British Embassy Prague in 2019.
New season of the program shall start in October 2019. Note: our two-month program is offered in cooperation with the Centre for Gender and Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences. If you would like to register for their own long-term mentoring program (which runs from March to December), please visit their webpage.
Are you an academic institution who would like to start your own mentoring program? Please read our tips here.
Mentoring Program for Women Researchers 2019
The second round of the program started in January and finished in March 2019.
Read our blog post summarizing the last workshop, and see photographs here.
Introductory Workshops: Friday, January 25, 2019 (first group of participants), February 15, 2019 (second group of participants)
Lecturers: Kateřina Cidlinská (Centre for Gender and Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences), Kateřina Machovcová (Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Meetings with special guests and alumni: March 1, 2019 (10:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00)
Topics: Career Progression (10:00-13:00), Publications, Preparation for the Job Market (14:00-17:00)
Guests: Zuzana Brixiová (Technical University of Ostrava), Alexandra Tsvetkova (CERGE-EI Alumna, OECD Trento Centre for Local Development), Helena Fulková (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Czech Academy of Sciences), Pavlína Louženská (Google Developers Launchpad), Inés Hardoy (Institute for Social Research, Oslo), Anastasiya Shamshur (CERGE-EI Alumna, University of East Anglia), Jana Cahlíková (CERGE-EI Alumna, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich), Zuzana Fungáčová (CERGE-EI Alumna, Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition)
Networking Dinner: from 18:00
Program poster for download 2019
Funded by the British Embassy Prague.
Mentoring Program for Women Researchers 2018
The first round of the program started in October and finished in December 2018.
Photographs are available here.
Introductory Workshop: Friday, October 12, 2018 (9:00-16:00)
Lecturers: Kateřina Cidlinská (Centre for Gender and Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences), Kateřina Machovcová (Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Meeting with special guests and alumni (academia): November 9, 2018 (9:00-12:00)
Topics: Choosing a research topic, Career planning in academia, Job market in academia
Speakers: Mariola Pytliková (Assistant Professor, CERGE-EI), Zuzana Brixiová (Senior Researcher, Technical University of Ostrava), Eva Hromádková (Analyst, Czech National Bank; Program Director of the Master’s in Applied Economics, CERGE-EI), Anna Kochanová (Lecturer, Cardiff Business School)
Meeting with special guests and alumni (international organizations and private sector): November 30, 2018 (9:00-12:00)
Topics: Networking, Applying to international organizations, Work-life balance
Speakers: Anita Taci (Deputy Director - Strategy Coordination & Results, EBRD), Susan Walton (Partner, Frost Consulting; Member of CERGE-EI Foundation Board), Dragana Stanisic (Senior Consultant, GfK; Member of CERGE-EI Foundation Board), Alice Machová (Partner, Financial Accounting Advisory Services, Ernst & Young)
Program poster for download 2018
Funded by the US Embassy in Prague within the Small Grants program.
