The online mentoring program is designed round based. Each round lasts one year. Based on their individual interests in STEM, each student is assigned a suitable mentor in that STEM area. Mentoring takes place through a protected online platform via mail, chat, and a forum. Two mentoring pairs with similar STEM interests form a community. Here, they can work on STEM projects together and exchange ideas on their favorite STEM topics. The female students (mentees) thus experience the STEM field on the platform in a diversity that goes beyond the 1:1 support provided by a personal mentor.

To structure the mentoring round, the CyberMentor year is divided into four STEM phases.


The first phase, "STEM daily", serves to build the relationship between student and mentor and strengthens the communities' group cohesion. Together with the community, they can get to the bottom of exciting everyday STEM questions. "STEM active" encourages communities to work on projects such as "Why does highlighter erase ink?" or "How do I use a pickle to charge my smartphone?". "STEM together" provides an opportunity to look beyond one's own STEM horizons: Here, different communities can join forces to carry out joint interdisciplinary projects. In the fourth phase, "STEM review", participants reflect on their mentoring year and look back on the best and most educational moments of their time at CyberMentor.

On the CyberMentor platform, participants also find a wide range of information on STEM. They have access to a comprehensive collection of STEM topics and projects, whose results they can publish in our internal platform magazine "CyberNews". The mentors moderate regular topic chats on interesting STEM questions such as " Apprenticeship or course of study - what suits me?" or "What is the everyday working life of a programmer like?" and answer the mentees' questions. In our internship and event forum, the schoolgirls can find out about diverse offers from our partners and sponsors. Moreover, they have access to manuals on the mentoring year as well as operating instructions for various platform functions.