Mentor and alumni networks

Would you like to have a sparring partner to develop your entrepreneurial and business ideas?

For whom is the mentoring meant?

• For the students of Y-zone Business HUB
• For the students of SeAMK Cooperative who are trying entrepreneurship
• For students attending the Liikeideat lentoon training
• For the students at the SeAMK Successor School

What do you get from this as a mentored student?

• Voluntary sparring for the development of your business idea
• New perspectives
• A reliable interlocutor

What do you get from this as a mentor?

• An interested interlocutor
• An opportunity to hear what kinds of entrepreneurial ideas students have
• You can expand your network
• New perspectives to add to your competencies

Other important things about mentoring

• The mentoring can extend over the spring or autumn semester and include a maximum of four meetings of 1.5 hours.
• A premise for successful mentoring is that the mentee knows how to listen and discuss, takes notes, gains insights and puts at least some of what he/she has learned into practice.
• The mentor is not responsible for the decisions made by the student, but the student makes the decisions themselves and is responsible for them.
• The mentoring is voluntary and is not paid for.
• The meetings can be freely booked, e.g., at the café, Y-Zone or on other SeAMK premises, Teams, at the mentor’s workplace, etc.
• An agreement including secrecy obligation is made on the mentoring
• The contact persons of SeAMK Y-Zone look for a mentor among SeAMK’s entrepreneur alumni. So far, more than ten mentors have expressed their willingness.

Further information:

elina.ojala@seamk.fi Y-Zone Business Hub and SeAMK Cooperative students
merja.juppo@seamk.fi Liikeideat lentoon training students