Currently going on its 5th edition, Project Mentoring has recorded exponential growth: 734 participants, of which 358 are mentors and 376 are students.

Some of this year's novelties include:

• Attending students from the Bachelor Programme in Nutrition Science as pupils (new Bachelor Programme of FMUL starting this year). In spite of the difficulties that Mentors of MIM have to go through in order to support new fellow team members in the study, their main purpose is to aid the process of academic integration and promote the participation of their fellows in the future of LCN as mentors;


• Greater appeal and participation of colleagues who have enrolled on special application for Bachelors, to whom a mentor that is currently enrolled in the 4th or 5th year is assigned.


• Attending as students, from the fellow students coming from University of Madeira (UMa) that come to attend the 3rd year at FMUL and that also have mentors that are attending the 4th or 5th year;


• Creating a public Facebook Profile - "Project Mentoring - FMUL" where several publications are made with relevant information on the Project, keeping the group concentrated on more specific materials.

It should be noted that the Service for Mentoring Students will continue. The service has recorded increased demand and it is there that students can personally address some issues and questions related to the project, or with their integration in FMUL throughout the academic year. This place is part of the Student Support Office (GAE) and the office hours can be checked in any social network or website of the project.

Several activities have been conducted to date: From the Enrolment Week to the Mentoring Day, there were plenty of activities aimed at promoting the integration of newcomers in our Faculty!

Enrolment Week (11-14 September)

During Enrolment Week, the Mentoring Service was present in Egas Moniz facilities with a stand, to divulge and enrol new students interested in the Project through the Mentoring APP.

After the enrolment process, the guided visits around the Faculty took place - the Mentors promptly offered to introduce the Faculty to its new students!

Mentoring Day (12 September)

The main goal of this day is to share ideas and experiences and also to foster team spirit among all mentors!

Thus, with the support of the University Stadium, we will have a Leadership and Motivation workshop promoted by students José Rodrigues and Teresa Valido, and also other games and activities covering topics such as: Communication; Reflecting on Mentoring and Team Work.

This activity featured 68 mentors attending the 2nd to 4th years! And as usual, the activity ended with a snack from whose leftovers were collected and donated to Refood.

 

Masterclass "Student Support Office" (17 September)

The Mentoring Project, integrated in GAE, attended the Introduction Week and presented a short lecture on the Project, its objectives, the activities it promotes and materials that it develops and the sharing of several important documents, such as the Survival Kit. Besides the introduction week, the Project was also present at the introduction ceremony of the Integration Committee for Graduate Students (CIAL).

 

Mentoring Day - Treasure Hunt (18 September)

As is tradition, in the Mentoring Day there is an activity that aims at establishing the first mentor-student contact. This year there was a Peddy Paper in Cidade Universitária. Throughout the activity, each team had several challenges to solve in the shortest time possible. All the teams lived up to the challenge and the competition was tight!

Of all 320 participants, divided in 36 teams, team 5.2 was the winner!

On that day, the peddy paper ended with a surprise concert in the student's bar, in cooperation with the Department of Culture and Entertainment of AEFML and also with the sponsoring of therapeutic sessions in the fields of Literature, Sports and Music in collaboration with students Eduardo Costa, Raquel Pinto and the award-winning author Valério Romão.

Mentoring Day had the support of EXARP and received the seal for best practice in new student integration.

Many of the activities are being prepared and will soon be revealed! Among these novelties, we can already highlight the second edition of the Workshop "Bibliographic Research Made Simple," this year with more news! And also Soft Skill Workshops!

But there is much more to come, always with the students in mind! Stay connected, so that you don't miss a thing!

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