These offers help you to develop in your professional role but also to establish new contacts with other alumni or students. Whatever your location and however much time you can afford to give, there are several opportunities for you to get involved and inspire young people, students or other alumni.
Become an alumni volunteer
Chalmers arranges every year several events where we need your help. Following are a list of events where you can help:
- Save the Egg and Experience Technology
- The Chalmers day
Interested in volunteering? Please contact us at the Alumni office.
Become a guest lecturer
We are looking for guest lecturers to several of our courses, which always is appreciated by the students.
If you are interested in being a guest lecturer? Please contact the Alumni office. and describe your subject of expertise.
Become mentor to a student
Mentorship at Chalmers aims to support the students’ professional and personal development as well as create good contacts between students and the business community. This can be summarised in the following points:
- Facilitate students’ transition from academia to business
- Create conditions for students to make informed choices
- Give students and mentors the opportunity to create networks
- Lead to personal and professional development for both students and mentors
- Give mentors understanding of what Chalmers is like today
Why you should become a mentor
Besides helping a student with career choices and personal development, there is a lot that you as a mentor can get out of a mentorship programme, such as:
- Becoming a better coach and improving your ability to help others develop.
- Good opportunities of expanding your personal network among students other mentors.
- A good opportunity for recruitment to your own company.
- A chance to return to Chalmers and be updated about new developments at the university.
