%0 Journal Article
%T Mentoring Activities in a Summer School
%A Jos¨¦ Couto Marques
%A Maria Teresa Restivo
%A Maria F¨¢tima Chouzal
%J International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy
%D 2013
%I International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP), Kassel University Press
%R 10.3991/ijep.v3is1.2407
%X Universidade J¨²nior is a very large educational program for the promotion of knowledge among pre-university children and teenagers launched in 2005 by U.Porto. This extremely popular initiative is currently attracting around 5000 students per year for a variety of learning activities and small research projects offered by the 14 Faculties of U.Porto during July and September. Besides providing a foretaste of university life and vocational orientation, they also give the youngsters a strong incentive to continue their studies into higher education and a knowledge-based career. A key element to the success of this process is the mentoring activity that is developed at two levels: between faculty and the junior tutors and between these and the young students.
%K competencies development
%K educational programs at STEM level
%K multidisciplinary activities
%K youth mentoring
%U http://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jep/article/view/2407