Mentor Board: overall purpose and format
AAU Business School is running a mentoring programme matching newly enrolled master students with business executives from the North Denmark Region, who become their mentors. Mentee spots are offered to the master students enrolled at the following programmes: Finance, Marketing, International Business, Organisation and Strategy, and Management Accounting.
Currently, the programme has capacity to include 25 students. The programme is offered to both Danish and International students. The working language is English. Participation in the programme is application-based. The main selection criteria is students’ motivation to start their career in Denmark after graduation and willingness to get insights into the local business culture.
The overall purpose of this programme is two-fold: we help students extend their professional network in the region, and to become more employable; at the same time, we strive to provide local businesses with new, well-qualified employees.
AAU International Business Mentor Board’s mission is to facilitate knowledge and experience sharing between successful mentors and business mentees in order to educate, equip, and inspire students, as well as help them achieve their potential, broaden network, clarify career goals, and become more employable in Denmark. The programme duration is one semester (February-June).
Programme structure
The programme starts in February with a kick-off event where mentors and mentees get to meet for the first time and are provided with necessary tools to start their work together. The main part of the programme consists of one-to-one meetings between mentors and mentees. It is usually mentee’s responsibility to schedule meetings with a mentor and prepare the main points of the agenda. We recommend a minimum of one personal meeting per month. The summer meeting in late May or beginning of June is time to celebrate new skills and contacts, and get together to evaluate the programme and share feedback.
Along the way, we also organize smaller networking events to secure better communication across the whole group and to answer the questions that arise in the mentoring process. These gatherings are of more social nature and are optional. Due to corona restrictions we are very limited in options, but the events we have organised before include: a multi-cultural potluck dinner, a company visit, coffee and cake hygge networking, a lecture with an invited speaker. We are always open to new ideas and aim to make the experience for our participants as involving as possible.
Below is the programme structure diagram.
Dan Skovgaard
Flemming Jensen
Henrik Dam
John Refsgaard
Kristin Assad
Lasse Ellebæk Thomsen
Mona Borksted Nielsen
Niclas D. Christensen
Puk Cao Thanh Ha
Thomas Kampmann
Tom Bue
Torben Nørgaard
Edin Hajder
Frederik Holm Bonde Christiansen
Ib Neustrup Simonsen
Kjeld Lisby
Lasse Madsen
Mike Dejworek
Morten Elbro
Peer Mørk
Sheilla Madeleine Vestergaard De Siqueira 
Thomas Aagaard
Tommy Bredal
Maria Sørensen 
Uffe Koch
Randi Ib
Christine Lunde
Gunnar Klug
Mette Kjul Pedersen
Palle Birk
Brian Enevoldsen
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Per Dam
Peter Sperling
Johannes Palsson
Peter Ulrik Jensen
Nicolaj Holm
Michael Vajhøj
Lars Henrik Hejlesen
Lars Juhl Hansen
Jens-Ole Hesel
Peter Freiesleben
Peter Homann
Niki Nicolas Grigoriou
AnneMette Bøjstrup
Mikael Larsen
Lasse Frimand Jensen
Martin Bobula 
Beáta Dobsa 
Claudia Fernanda Dovalina García 
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Federica Esposito 
Dumitru Sircu 
Tomasz Jakub Pawliszak
Diana Klarová
Robert Krzykawski 
Sebastian Jorna
Silvia Mihalíková
Tamás Város
Eileen Winterholt 
Chiara Amadori
Tomas Marcin
Denise Luchin 
Laura Karina Markowski
Dusan Petrovic
Martina Strbava 
Alexandra Mihaela Doroftei 
Gabriel Hopkinson 
Bálint Magyar 
Barbora Cintavá
Anton Kukucka 
Sandra Cristina Marques Lopes Guiomar 
Andrei Apolozan Alexandru
Bálint András Regőci
Christian Koudal
Doan Huong Anh Nguyen
Hemn Mehryar
Juline Hilsch
Khaldoun Ahmad Adel Ajek
Marco Nissen
Martin Norup Jensen
Olga Sitinska
Randa Machharawi
Sergiu Ropota
Victor Dimitrie Mester
Annika Lauer
Bartosz Leszko
Daniela-Cristina Dumitras
Dorottya Hrabovszki
Joaquín Moreno
Kathrin Eichenauer
Kristyna Kuncova
Marie Kotaskova
Michelle Bastholm
Patrick Jordan