Presentation of the CyberMentor project, the 5th SPNE London 24 May 2015

1. • Regensburg
Get girls excited
about STEM!
London, 24th of April 2015
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Marold.Reutlinger@fau.de

2. What is CyberMentor?

3. What is CyberMentor?
• Worldwide largest e-
mentoring program for girls
in STEM with a systematic
program of scientific
evaluation
• online communities for girls
and young women who are
interested in STEM
• Organized from the
Universities of Erlangen-
Nuremberg and
Regensburg

4. What is CyberMentor?
• Each girl is matched with a
personal mentor
• Mentors are female
academics and
professionals who are
active in STEM
• All participants are
volunteers
• Program is free of charge

5. How does CyberMentor work
and what does it offer?

6. Why fostering girls in STEM?
Media
Lack of
rolemodels
Nearly no
exchange with
friends
Nearly no feedback
in school or at
home

7. CyberMentor offers
… communication about STEM
topics
… communication about STEM
topics
… Role models… Role models
… STEM activities… STEM activities

8. How does CyberMentor work and what
does it offer?
• Exchange takes place online in a members-only platform
• Identity proof of all participants

9. Public page

10. Community page

11. How does CyberMentor work and what
does it offer?
• Exchange takes place online in a members-only platform
• Identity proof of all participants
• E-Mail contact to the personal mentor ones a week

12. How does CyberMentor work and what
does it offer?
• Exchange takes place online in a members-only platform
• Identity proof of all participants
• E-Mail contact to the personal mentor ones a week
• Communication via
• community mail

13. CyberMail

14. How does CyberMentor work and what
does it offer?
• Exchange takes place online in a members-only platform
• Identity proof of all participants
• E-Mail contact to the personal mentor ones a week
• Communication via
• community mail
• Discussion forum

15. CyberForum

16. How does CyberMentor work and what
does it offer?
• Exchange takes place online in a members-only platform
• Identity proof of all participants
• E-Mail contact to the personal mentor ones a week
• Communication via
• community mail
• Discussion forum
• Chatrooms

17. CyberChat

18. How does CyberMentor work and what
does it offer?
• Exchange takes place online in a members-only platform
• Identity proof of all participants
• E-Mail contact to the personal mentor ones a week
• Communication via
• community mail
• Discussion forum
• Chatrooms
• “My page”

19. My page

20. How does CyberMentor work and what
does it offer?
• Exchange takes place online in a members-only platform
• Identity proof of all participants
• E-Mail contact to the personal mentor ones a week
• Communication via
• community mail
• Discussion forum
• Chatrooms
• “My page”
• STEM projects

21. e.g. wiki

22. How does CyberMentor work and what
does it offer?
• Communication infrastructure allows even younger female
students to learn more about STEM as early as possible
• Girls in their final years of secondary schooling receive
helpful hints that help them make university study and
career decisions
• CyberMentor is effective: Participants who have already
made decisions about what to study at university, 71%
chose a STEM subject

23. Outlook*
• Expansion to Europe
• Translation of the Webpage into:
English, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, …
• Establishing of a European CM-Platform
* new financing

24. • Regensburg
London, 24th of April 2015
Thank you for
your attention
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Marold.Reutlinger@fau.de