News

Season 2025 has started

1 February 2025

56 mentor-mentees pair will participate in this season that will last three months. We wish you luck and inspiration and look forward to seeing you at our events. Don't forget to check the announcement emails from us!

Call for mentees for Season 2025 is closed now

15 December 2024

We have closed a call for mentees. Applicants will hear from us by the end of January 2025.

Call for mentees for Season 2025 is open now

02 December 2024

We have opened a call for mentees. Read the details here.

Call for mentors for Season 2025 is closed

17 November 2024

We have closed a call for mentors.

Call for mentors for Season 2025 is open now

4 November 2024

We have opened a call for mentors. Read the details here.

Partnership with AI Safety Quest and calls for mentors

21 May 2024

We are happy to announce that in collaboration with AI Safety Quest team we are launching a mentorship program in AGI Safety!

Season 2024 has finished

1 May 2024

32 mentee-mentor pairs, 2 languages, 10 mentee and mentor events, 9 guest experts and lots of activities on our social media, website, and Discord online community. We hugely appreciate all the participants, their contribution to the successful launch of our bi-lingual program. We will return refreshed and with news about next season during Fall 2024. More information about 2024 season.

Partnership with scienceOS

16 April 2024

Sci.STEPS announced a partnership with scienceOS. This collaboration will offer members of Sci.STEPS a preferred pricing scheme for the scienceOS web app and support scienceOS with access to structured user feedback. Exact details will be announced during Summer 2024. Stay tuned.

9th Max Planck Symposium

29 March 2024

Dr. Olya Vvedenskaya will give a keynote talk at the 9th Max Planck Symposium for Alumni and Early Career Researchers "The future of education around the world" on June 27th and 28th in Harnack-Haus, Berlin, Germany. She will talk about mentorship programs for scientists.

MINDS in academia

15 March 2024

Dr. Olya Vvedenskaya and Dr. Evgenya Vorobyeva will participate in MINDS in academia conference in April 2024.

Season 2024 has started

2 February 2024

The program will last three months and will end on April 30, 2024. We wish you luck and inspiration and look forward to seeing you at our events. Don't forget to check the announcement emails from us!

Happy New Year

30 December 2023

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

We have also started a matching process and plan to send out emails with the results at the end of January.

The call for mentees is closed

18 December 2023

We have closed a call for mentors. Stay tuned for the updates.

The call for mentees is open now

4 December 2023

We have opened a call for mentees. Read the details here and fill out the form to become the mentee! The call will close on December 17th 2023.

Webinar 'Mentoring in Science'

11 November 2023

One of Sci.STEPS organizers Mariia Kuzina hosted a webinar "Mentoring in Science". Watch the video on Sci.STEPS YouTube channel. 

The call for mentors is closed

7 November 2023

We have closed a call for mentors. Soon we will open a call for mentees.

George Mathew joined the Sci.STEPS team

1 November 2023

We are happy to welcome George Mathew to our team. George will take care of illustrations.

The call for mentors is open now

24 October 2023

We have opened a call for mentors. Read the details here.

Sci.STEPS goes international!

23 October 2023

As one of our core values is equal access to knowledge and support, we are happy to expand our program to an English-speaking audience. Our mentoring support, as well as educational content, will be provided both in Russian and English in the next season.  Read the details here.

Major webpage update

16 October 2023

We have launched a major update of our webpage and added new content.

Read useful information about relocation, choosing a lab for Ph.D., and targeted networking.

Read the interviews with mentors and mentees from the first season of Sci.STEPS program.

Paid short-term consultations are available upon request

2 October 2023

Sci.STEPS team opens a possibility to receive a few discreet targeted consultations out of the mentoring season. Read the details here.

Ksenia Kuznetsova joined Sci.STEPS

1 October 2023

We are happy to welcome Ksenia Kuznetsova to our team. Ksenia will take care of marketing and communication strategy.

Season 2023 has finished

27 April 2023

75 mentee-mentor pairs, 13 mentee and mentor events, 4 guest experts and lots of activities on our social media and Discord online community. We hugely appreciate all the participants, their contribution to the successful launch of our program. We will return refreshed and with news about next season during Fall 2023. More information about 2023 season.

Season 2023 has started

1 February 2023

The program will last three months and will end on April 27 2023. We wish you luck and inspiration and look forward to seeing you at our events. Don't forget to check the announcement emails from us!

Call for mentees is closed

30 December 2022

The call for applications is now closed. Stay tuned to the website for updates on the next recruitment.

Call for mentees is open

12 December 2022

We are opening mentee registration! We are waiting for your applications and would be happy if you spread the link to the questionnaire in social networks (Linkedin, Telegram, Twitter).

Find your mentor

12 December 2022

The mentor gallery is ready. We are glad to introduce our team for the first season of the Sci.STEPS program!

Call for mentors is closed

2 December 2022

We have closed the mentor recruitment for the pilot launch. Thank you to everyone who applied to us. All further applications will be placed on a waiting list.