• DocumentCode
    3630033
  • Title

    Virtual Mentorship Program - A Development of Young Professionals and Scientists

  • Author

    Mislav Ante Omazic;Dario Blažekovic;Zoltan Baracskai

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Econ. & Bus., Univ. of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    331
  • Lastpage
    336
  • Abstract
    Broader academic and professional society have realized that the best way of learning and integrating valuable life and professional experience is by learning from experience of others through mentoring processes. Led by the same idea and as a proactive effort to foster their global competitiveness top students from two most influenced graduate schools in Croatia gathered within eSTUDENT organization and they have started Virtual Mentorship Program in which they try to organize cooperation between senior undergraduate students and acknowledged members of academic society and business world who have Croatian heritage. Its goal is to give students that are willing to take initiative and responsibility extracurricular education with the purpose of creating competitive workforce that is going to core of the national competitiveness and value creation.
  • Keywords
    "Employee welfare","Engineering profession","Educational institutions","Investments","Virtual manufacturing","Educational programs","Europe","Computer science","Software engineering","Professional societies"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008 International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3336-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSSE.2008.1475
  • Filename
    4722908