Global Talent Mentoring

Background:

Development of Global Talent Mentoring began in late 2017 and is an online mentoring program that fosters the world’s most outstanding young people who demonstrate exceptional talent and motivation in a specific domain within science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medical sciences (STEMM).

Method:

Each mentee works with a mentor who has expertise in the mentee’s area of interest over an extended period of time (e.g., from around the age of 16 up to the completion of advanced tertiary studies). The program uses its own innovative platform to facilitate one-on-one and group mentoring from internationally leading experts in STEMM fields that will guide mentees on an individualized pathway to excellence. Global Talent Mentoring is free of charge and open to participants around the world, regardless of cultural background or financial resources. 

Global Talent Mentoring has international collaborations with more than 30 partners across five continents. Thanks to the support of this growing network, Global Talent Mentoring has access to the world’s brightest minds in STEMM, each of whom help form the program’s vibrant community of STEMM expertise and talent.

Global Talent Mentoring is a program by the Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Medical and Educational Sciences in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. After four years of conceptualization by a team at the University of Regensburg, the first three years of the planned ten-year pilot was implemented by teams at the University of Regensburg, the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and the Hamdan Foundation. As of 8 October 2024, the program is solely operated by the Hamdan Foundation in Dubai. Global Talent Mentoring is a flagship offering of the World Giftedness Center.

Global Talent Mentoring is cooperating closely with several members of the EU STEM Coalition to ensure optimal alignment with national and regional STEM-education programs.