Mentoring programme

United Europe offers a unique, non-commercial mentoring programme, which focuses specifically on topics related to working and doing business in Europe. The non-commercial mentoring programme is specifically tailored to European topics and was developed in cooperation with Bernotat & Cie., a company that offers mentoring programmes for managers from corporate environments and medium-sized businesses.
United Europe and Bernotat & Cie. thus offer young talents and highly qualified future managers from all over Europe the opportunity to exchange views with experienced mentors over a period of nine to 12 months on topics important for Europe and thus also for companies and society. The aim is to connect interesting people from different generations and countries in order to deepen projects and ideas through in-depth discussions and to accelerate their implementation.
The topics of the mentoring programme deal in the broadest sense with living and working in Europe, with opportunities and challenges for employees, entrepreneurs, companies and start-ups as well as with European and security policy. Concrete topics can be, for example:
– Digitisation/technological change considering economic, social and environmental conditions
– Climate change
– EU enlargement
– Democracy
– European integration
– European financial market and monetary policy
– Women & Leadership
– Health and safety at work
– European committee work
– The impact of the Belt & Road initiative on European industrial policy
– Viruses know no boundaries. Post-COVID-19

Mentees

The programme is open to young Europeans up to the age of 40 who are committed to the ideas and ideals of United Europe and are members or would like to become members. Interested parties must apply with a short letter that includes the following:

1. Concise CV + self-description;
2. Short description of what mentoring means to you and what you expect from it (what do you want from a mentor who can support you? ½ page);
3. Concrete topic that you would like to explore with a mentor, why it is important to you personally, what you would like to achieve and how it is relevant for society, your environment and/or Europe.

Mentors

The mentors come from the networks of Bernotat & Cie. and United Europe. Through the programme, mentors have the opportunity to meet interesting young people from all over Europe and support them in their questions and tasks. Many participants of United Europe’s Young Professionals Seminars work in European companies, institutions, or associations where European issues are part of everyday life, which they deal with and which are important to them. These include topics such as European integration, the Euro zone, digitisation and AI, environmental protection and the technological revolution, European financial policy and much more. A majority of our mentors have extensive experience in developing top talent and high potentials in companies.

Bernotat & Cie. is responsible for the professional development and placement of the mentoring program and for the training of the mentors. All mentors assigned to the program are supervised by Bernotat & Cie. to ensure the quality of the program and to gain ideas for further design.