Korea Foundation for Women i n Science, Engineering and Technology

We provide diverse mentoring opportunities to help female students in elementary, middle, and high schools explore STEM careers and academic paths.

Eligibility

• Mentors: Women professionals in STEM fields, as well as female undergraduate and graduate students majoring in STEM
• Mentees: Female students in elementary, middle, and high schools

Details

• STEM major experience programs (open labs, field visits)
• Career special lectures (role model talks by women in STEM, introduction to majors)
• STEMA content and various online/offline mentoring activities

To help female university students (or graduates) in STEM become better job candidates and help them choose a career, this program provides various mentoring activity opportunities to help them explore possible careers with female workers in STEM and visits to related institutions.

Eligibility

• Mentors: Teams of three or more professionals working in STEM fields (companies, research institutes, universities, etc.)
  ※ Applications must be submitted by the institution
• Mentees: Female university students, graduate students, etc., specializing in STEM
  ※ Students on leave of absence or graduates may participate only if they are currently unemployed

Details

• Visits to the mentor’s company/research institute, mock interviews, special lectures on jobs/skills, and provision of the latest science and technology information and employment information
  ※ Specific activities may vary depending on the mentoring institution

Together with global companies highlighting diversity and inclusion as their core values, we help female university students (or graduates) in science and engineering grow into women in STEM with global competency.

Eligibility

• Mentors : Scientists and engineers working for global corporations ※ Proceed on a corporate basis
• Mentees : Female college students, graduate students, etc. specializing in science or engineering
  ※ Students on leave can participate in unemployment

Details

• On/offline mentoring, special lectures on recruitment in connection with corporate HR teams, visits to company/research institutes, special lectures on jobs/skills, mock interviews, etc.

Corporate partners for the Global Mentoring Program

• ASM, ASML, Baker Hughes, Continental Korea, Control Union, DSM-Firmenich, HP, IMCD, KLA, Lam Research, MECAL-HTS, PHILIPS, SAP, Schneider Electric, Synopsys Korea, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Tokyo Electron Ltd, POSCO E&C, 3M Korea

We provide global networking opportunities for women in STEM to design their future with outstanding female scientists and engineers in Korea and the United States.

Eligibility

• Mentors : Korean women in STEM in the United States ※ Target(KWiSE)
• Mentees : Female college students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, etc. specializing in science or engineering

Details

• Mentor-mentee: On/offline mentoring, special lectures on jobs/skills, special lectures on thesis writing, elevator pitch, mock interviews, sharing of information on overseas jobs, etc.
• STEM Career Talk Concert: Sharing of career path stories and Q&A with various experts from promising industries

This is a program in which female leaders with extensive experience or female corporate executives provide female employees at the middle-management level with career mentoring to become female leaders in the industry.
Initially, it mainly focused on people in technical positions in the IT industry, but it is continually expanding by discovering and including new fields such as BT, engineering, and chemical sectors.

Eligibility

• Mentors: Executive-level female leaders in STEM (20+ years of work experience)
• Mentees: Female employees in STEM

Details

• Job-tailored group mentoring by female leaders
• Networking opportunities for current employees per industry
• 1:1 online mentoring with no spatiotemporal constraints

To support women in STEM pursuing diverse career paths, this program promotes women-led, science- and technology-driven entrepreneurship through tailored mentoring.

Eligibility

• Women in STEM with a technology or business model, or those interested in starting a business

Details

• Tailored mentoring to build essential entrepreneurial skills