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Last Updated: December 1, 2024

 
 

As part of our ongoing Women’s Mentorship Program, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has implemented various mentoring schemes to support women students after they join our institution.

At Amrita, we believe mentorship can be an incredibly powerful tool to encourage the growth of young women and help them reach their full potential.

In 2024, 85% (+2 % compared to last year) of our women students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels participated in mentorship programs at Amrita.

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham offers different mentoring schemes to accompany, guide and inspire women students:

  • Specific tools for women, including: face-to-face or online mentoring, free conferences on job areas where women are under-represented, access to free international competitions for women. 
  • Generic tools from which women students can benefit, such as training and mentoring sessions for students organized by Amrita Corporate and Industry Relations Department.
  • Launching of a PG Diploma in Counselling Psychology to reinforce existing mentoring initiatives by training counsellors who can nurture both academic growth and emotional well-being, recognizing the close connection between the two.
  • Inspiring talks or panel discussions on gender equality and female-specific subjects to generate reflection to become self-reliant and develop empowerment 
  • Indirect tools: Training and internships in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Research centers or departments with a high women’s empowerment component to benefit from national and international projects signed with major government and private institutions.

Several of our schemes are available both for staff and students. In each of these schemes, at least 10% of female students are participating.

1. Specific Mentoring Tools for Women

1.1 Team Shakti

1.2 Support Group for Women Ph. D. Students

1.3. Access to Women High Management Mentors

2. Generic Mentoring Tools for Women

2.1 Wellness Center and Counselling

2.2 Life Skills and Professional Mentoring

At Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, we strongly believe that our female students possess a strong inner power. By engaging in talks, webinars, and discussions on gender and women-related topics, they gain valuable insights and the opportunity to reflect, empowering them to find their own solutions to challenges. This approach fosters self-reliance and confidence—it is truly a mentorship through example!
It’s a powerful indirect form of mentorship where role models inspire others through their own experiences, actions, and resilience, rather than direct, one-on-one mentoring sessions. Below are a few examples of subjects in which our students participated in 2024:

3.1 Women resilience and forebearance

3.2 Women and entrepreneurship: Being Other

3.3 GenAI x Gender Hackathon 202425 – Workshops

4. Indirect tools

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Amrita SREE

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