We are continuing our work on building Strategic Foresight, with our objective being to establish the baseline of the NatAlli mentoring programme for highly educated Ukrainian women. So far, we have conducted 32 interviews with these women in several European countries. These will help highlight potential challenges and opportunities likely to affect the mentoring programme, and through external stakeholder consultations, as well as mentors consultations, put forward recommendations for strategies best suited to mentoring the next generation of women entrepreneurs and innovators fully capable of influencing and contributing to the regeneration process of economies and societies during and after a crisis in Europe.
This research and discovery phase follows a methodology devised by FH Münster with a strategic planning approach that uses systematic and structured methods to anticipate future trends, challenges, and opportunities to establish a mentoring program for highly educated Ukrainian women. Together with the six other project partners, they are using environmental scanning, horizon scanning, scenario building, visioning and strategy development to contribute to the overall objective of identifying fundamental topics needed to guide and support women in their entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship journey.
Following critical analysis and reporting, two publications will soon be available here on our project website.
- Scanning the Horizon of Mentoring under Crisis Situations – achieving a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities of highly educated Ukrainian women and the key trends and drivers that could have significant impacts on the future of Europe through focused research and analysis.
- Scenario Planning to Mentoring Highly Educated Ukrainian Women – developing a long-term perspective and plan on how mentoring could evolve in the future.
These results will enable mentors to be proactive rather than reactive and to develop a forward-looking mindset that allows them to address the challenges of highly educated Ukrainian women in an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world rather than simply reacting to short-term changes and challenges. NatAlli would like to sincerely thank everyone who participated in this research for their time and commitment and we look forward to sharing the results soon.
