For Mentees

• Invigorated career motivation and better career planning
• Development of strategic competencies and better "self-marketing"
• More profound knowledge regarding structures, processes and rules of the higher education system
• Development of leadership and management competencies
• Improved networking within and integration into the academic community and other relevant areas

For Mentors

• Pleasure in transferring knowledge and experience and in supporting junior researchers
• Reflection on one's own career path and leadership experience
• Improvement of consultation competencies and new impulses
• Expansion of one's own networks

For Universities

• Improved techniques for the promotion of junior researchers
• Support for diversity- and equality-oriented organisational cultures
• Advantages in competition for junior researchers