ALLILON’s Mentoring: How it works
The Mentorship of ALLILONnet serves as a cornerstone of our network and is based on the principle of passing on experience to younger individuals.
The mentors of ALLILONnet are volunteers, willing to share their experience when requested typically by younger members. They often mentor on specific topics, degrees, universities, financial, or business sectors, etc.
The mentee is required to read the mentor’s profile carefully.
Communication between the mentor and the mentee is confidential and takes place through relatively short, often online, “one-on-one” meetings. The mentee fills out a simple application form. They may have “one-on-one” meetings with up to three mentors for each application. Communication with mentors is confidential, with the communications team acting as an administrative channel between members and mentors.
The interested party must register at least as a member on the website to gain access to the profiles of the mentors. The Mentorship of ALLILON aims to support younger members in their serious decisions regarding their next important professional steps.
Access to ALLILON’s mentors and evaluation
in 4 steps
Join our network so that you can view mentor profiles. Fill in all the fields in your profile.
2. Choose mentors
Fill in the contact application form (with at least one mentor) regarding the next serious professional step that concerns you and select up to 3 mentors for each application you decide to submit.
3. Approval & contact
You will receive the approval of your application via a message on your profile (as well as an email notification), you will be provided with the contact details and a contact window will open for each mentor.
4. Evaluation
After the communication between the mentor and the mentee or at the end of one month from the approval of each application, both parties will receive a short evaluation questionnaire.
Find your Mentor
New ALLILON Initiative: Deep Mentoring
Deep Mentoring is an ALLILON initiative designed to offer more specialized and intensive strategic guidance on select groups of beneficiaries. This program offers more time with mentors and targeted support for international networking opportunities, complementing the basic mentoring provided by ALLILON.
- Focus on the mentee making strategic and important decisions.
- Includes short, targeted meetings:
- Group guidance: 45 minutes
- Personal guidance (one-on-one): 20 minutes
Deep Mentoring offers deeper and more long-term support, based on the needs and capabilities of each mentee group.
- Support for carefully selected innovative groups and initiatives with high chances of development.
- Connecting mentees with experienced professionals for international opportunities, with more time offered for in-depth guidance.
- Contributing to the development of the Greek industry and economy through support for tech startups
The groups are selected with strict criteria to ensure the efficiency of the program.
- Suggested by: cooperating universities and other academics, researchers, public and private bodies with which ALLILON cooperates.
- The selection criteria include:
- The level of technological innovation
- Economic and technological growth potential
- Overall strategic importance for the industrial development of Greece
- More criteria concerning sustainability and social impact will be made available shortly!
1st Stage: Introductory Guidance and Networking
- Presenting the groups of candidates, their work and plans.
- Online group guidance sessions (aim ~60 minutes)
- Networking with specialized mentors and potential partners
2nd Stage: Deeper & International Networking
- In-person meetings, visits and advice sessions and cooperation in Greece or abroad with an emphasis on strategy for Greece’s future on Technological Clusters.
- Development of links with international issues and geographic clusters in important topics, e.g. Boston USA and Artificial Intelligence, or Basel Switzerland for biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
- Strengthening of cooperation between academic and entrepreneurial bodies in Greece and abroad.
1st step: selection of sectors of Mentor Groups and selection of geographic and thematic clusters
- Mentor groups: ALLILON has mentors working in many sectors. For Deep Mentoring, the following groups of mentors have been created: Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Health professions
- Geographic clusters: the following groups have been chosen: Boston (AI), California (AI, IoT), Switzerland (AI, Biotech, Pharma, Medtech).
2nd step: constant improvement of the internal management of the program
- Development of partnerships with strategic agenices in Greece and abroad with an emphasis on geograzphical and thematic clusters
- Expanding the network of mentors willing to provide to Deep Mentoring
3rd step: pilot the implementation & expansion of the first phase – planned for the end of 2025
- Inform and submit proposals to partner universities and other bodies for the official launch of the first phase of Deep Mentoring
- Implementation of the selected mentoring sessions and events of the 1st phase
- Develop good practices and expand the model
4th step: funding & international actions
- Securing sponsorships and partnerships for phase 2.
- Organization of targeted mentoring events, search for partnerships and business ventures, especially in the selected geographical clusters.
Deep Mentoring will strengthen the role of ALLILON as a a key supporter for young scientists and entrepreneurs, offering:
- Widening partnerships with top universities and research centers
- Creation of international opportunities for beneficiaries
- Contribution to the industrial and technological upgrade of Greece
ALLILON invites strategic partners, universities, business entities and mentors to actively participate in the implementation of this program, contributing to the creation of and sustainable network for guidance and development.
For more information and to register, contact ALLILON.
Our Mentors
If you are logged in, you may click below on any mentor to see their full profile.
Frequently Asked Questions
In the context of ALLILON, Mentors only share their own professional experience with other members, usually younger, who wish to follow a similar professional path. They do so on a strictly non-profit basis. The Young Mentor has a recent successful experience gained either from studies or from professional insertion. He/she is a mentor for the specific experience only, and can be the raw model and the best source of useful information for younger people who follow the same path.
The mentorship of ALLILON is built around two key principles: – on the one hand: full transparency, with all interested mentees treated equally and given similar opportunities, and, – on the other hand: respect for merit and own initiative. The Mentor helps the younger member to prepare better, (i.e. prepare the tests and the interviews, understand the challenges and the environment, connect and network with the right people etc.). At the end of the day the success should come for those better prepared and more actively committed.
The interested mentee can consult our mentors even if he/she is in very early stages of search, e.g. freshmen looking to set a precise study plan.
A young member of ALLILON can become a Young Mentor for a specific University or even for a specific postgraduate diploma. Thus, interested mentees are requested to look carefully at the mentor’s profile before requesting communication with the mentor.
The mentoring of ALLILON aims at supporting the big decisions of the younger members, for example: which post-graduate diploma to pursue? How to succeed in my professional insertion? What career plan to choose? More questions can be related to professional orientation, professional integration, next career steps, career mapping, creating a new company or expanding an existing one, choice of business strategy, improving skills etc.
A condition for access to ALLILON mentors is to register as a member of our network. Registration has no cost and departure has no restrictions.
The candidate interested party (mentee) fills in an electronic application form to contact ALLILON mentor from his/her profile on ALLILLON website and then, after receiving the necessary “Consulting Certificate” from the Communication Team, along with the necessary instructions, takes contact with the mentors he has chosen.
Mentees have access to mentors only through an electronic “Certificate of Mentorship” issued by our Communication Team. For this purpose, our mentors do not accept requests and questions without first receiving the corresponding certificate. The request can be exploratory (eg mapping of options for studies or career) or detailed and in depth (eg selecting between two options for post graduate diplomas, or preparing for a specific entry competition or job insertion, or choosing a business strategy for a specific product or country). However, in order for the request to be accepted, it needs to provide a clear indication of the output expected from the discussion with the mentor.
Our mentors remain strictly volunteers and offer their time to ALLILON on a stricty non-profit basis. They arrange the time they can devote to each request (mentee) on a case by case basis. They can restrict or even interrupt for some period (eg workload) the flow of mentees by informing the communication team. In all cases, they respond and share their professional experience to the best of their ability, when this experience appears relevant for the mentee, they are mindful of the importance for the mentee of networking and always project to the mentee a sense of solidarity and encouragement.
Our mentors are initially appointed for a period of less than two years (until December 31 of the year following their application). An honorary diploma is issued to each of our mentors for the specific period. At the end of the honorary diploma can be renewed again for a period of two years. Evaluation takes place every time after any meeting with a mentee, with short questionnaires on the main aspects of the mentoring experience.
In all cases of communication mentor-mentee through a Counseling Certificate or in the context of a speed-mentoring event, short evaluation questionnaires are sent separately to mentors and mentees, via slido. They are brief but cover the fundamental aspects that require quality monitoring. Members are welcome any time, to provide additional inputs, thoughts or suggestions to the Communication Team.