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Chapter 5 ! Mentoring 253
lier phase: fourteen candidates).
! The second invitation letter was sent quickly after the first call. The situation of the
target group had not or only slightly changed.
! The criteria for the candidates had not changed.
! Just before the candidates received the invitation, the University of Antwerp had
sent an invitation to participate in a course on scientific communication. Afterwards,
the candidates appeared to have been overcharged, which happened at the expense
of the mentoring programme.
3.7.2. University of Antwerp (UA)
The timing of the UA project and the UHasselt project was different. At the UA, the
project team members worked on their module fulltime in the first project period, as a
result of which the autumn of 2006 was a very busy period for their own course on
scientific communication.
At the end of 2006, both the project coordinator and the project promoter had left the
organization. At the start of 2007, a substitute promoter was contacted and a manual
for the mentor project at the UA was set up with the support of UHasselt and within the
VLIR-EQUAL project. The manual was discussed with a working group of female professors
of the UA, but as a result of the lack of engagement (people and resources)
from the departments and the central administration, the project did not get a followup.
3.7.3. University of Brussels (VUB)
On the basis of the exchange of Equality Guide courses within VLIR’s Working Group
on Equal Opportunities, the VUB also showed interest in the mentoring project. The
promoter, Prof. De Metsenaere, chose to get the project out of its marginal existence
and into the management of the university. In February of 2007, an estimate of real
costs was made but this turned out to be impossible within the project period of VLIR-
EQUAL.
3.7.4. University of Ghent (UGent)
The UGent module was organized later than at the other universities. This, and the
regional differences between Ghent and Hasselt, explains that no concrete commitments
were made.