Mentoring can help you plan your next professional step and look at your career from a new perspective. This category includes programs that support skills development, career changes, promotion, entering a new industry, and making more informed career decisions.
Johtajalta johtajalle – Mentoring connects leaders and executives through a structured mentoring offer from Johtajaklubi. The peer-mentoring programme for leaders uses at least five pair meetings together with common start, midpoint and closing events. The next programme round is presented for 2027.
Who is it for? leaders and executives
Juristimentorointi connects lawyers and other legal professionals through a structured mentoring offer from Juristiliitto – Finnish Bar/Legal Professionals Union. The 2026–2027 legal-profession programme runs from October 2026 to April 2027. The programme information describes monthly pair meetings and common events.
Who is it for? lawyers and other legal professionals
Kampusklubi / Tampere University + industry partners runs Kampusklubi Mentoring Program for Tampere University students, using mentoring as the core format. Kampusklubi's documented third edition uses group mentoring: industry mentors work with groups of 3–5 students. The 2025/26 cycle included four meetings from late October to March.
Who is it for? Tampere University students
Keski-Suomen Chamber of Commerce runs Kapula Mentoring Programme for marketing and communications students and professionals, using mentoring as the core format. The second edition ran from January to June 2026 with 12 mentors. The programme includes three common meetings, including the kickoff, and at least two individual mentoring meetings.
Who is it for? marketing and communications students and professionals
Loimu Mentoring 2026 connects Loimu members through a structured mentoring offer from Loimu. The 2026 Loimu programme runs from June to December and includes 5–6 pair meetings plus three common events.
Who is it for? Loimu members
LUT Mentoring Programme connects students and alumni or other professionals through a structured mentoring offer from LUT University. The 2026/27 cycle runs from December 2026 to May 2027 and the organiser expects each mentoring pair to meet at least five times.
Who is it for? students and alumni or other professionals
Turku Chamber of Commerce runs MentorChamber for employees of Turku Chamber of Commerce member companies, using mentoring as the core format. MentorChamber is a cross-company programme run through the Turku Chamber of Commerce. The programme has operated since 2020 and uses separate recruitment and matching for recurring rounds.
Who is it for? employees of Turku Chamber of Commerce member companies
Mentoring for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers is a mentoring programme organised by University of Turku + Åbo Akademi University for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. The 2027 programme is planned around 5–6 meetings for each mentoring pair. Applications are scheduled for 19–30 October 2026 and the programme is organised jointly by the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University.
Who is it for? doctoral and postdoctoral researchers
Mentoring for Early Career Researchers is a mentoring programme organised by Tampere University for doctoral researchers, postdoctoral researchers and other early-career researchers. The programme information describes about five mentoring meetings together with 2–4 group sessions. The working language is English and the offer is aimed at researchers at an early career stage.
Who is it for? doctoral researchers, postdoctoral researchers and other early-career researchers
MiB Balance Mentoring connects mothers and women returning to or developing their careers through a structured mentoring offer from Mothers in Business. MiB Balance is a nationwide one-to-one mentoring programme. The programme information describes nine pair meetings together with common events.
Who is it for? mothers and women returning to or developing their careers
Juristiliitto runs Oikkari / Student Mentoring for law students, using mentoring as the core format. The student mentoring programme runs from October 2026 to April 2027 and is organised separately for law students, with approximately monthly mentoring meetings.
Who is it for? law students
Opi nuorelta korkeakouluopiskelijalta – Reverse Mentoring connects company experts and leaders as mentees and higher-education students as mentors through a structured mentoring offer from Turku Chamber of Commerce. The 2026 pilot reverses the usual roles: higher-education students act as mentors and company experts or leaders participate as mentees.
Who is it for? company experts and leaders as mentees and higher-education students as mentors
Player Mentoring Programme connects young elite football players through a structured mentoring offer from JPY – Finnish Football Players’ Association. The players' association runs mentoring for young elite footballers. In 2025 the documented programme had 12 mentors and 18 mentees, and funding for the 2026 programme has been confirmed.
Who is it for? young elite football players
PMI Finland Mentoring Program connects students, young professionals and project-management mentors through a structured mentoring offer from PMI Finland Chapter. PMI Finland has run its mentoring programme since 2020 for students and early-career project professionals, with experienced project professionals participating as mentors.
Who is it for? students, young professionals and project-management mentors
Private-Sector Doctor Mentoring is a mentoring programme organised by Suomen Lääkäriliitto for doctors starting, working in or considering private-sector medical work. The Finnish Medical Association offers confidential private-sector mentoring to members. A participant can contact a mentoring doctor regardless of specialty or region for support related to starting, working in or considering private practice.
Who is it for? doctors starting, working in or considering private-sector medical work
ProCom – Finnish Association of Communication Professionals runs ProCom Mentorointiohjelma 2026 for communications professionals, using mentoring as the core format. The 2026 programme runs from January to November. Pair meetings take place roughly monthly and the programme includes five common events.
Who is it for? communications professionals
University of Vaasa runs Professional Mentorship Programme for international degree students, using mentoring as the core format. The programme starts in October 2026 and uses both mentoring pairs and mentoring groups. The current programme is available to international master's degree students at the University of Vaasa.
Who is it for? international degree students
Suomen Ekonomit runs Recent Graduate Mentoring Programme for recent graduates in economics and business, using mentoring as the core format. The recent-graduate programme has capacity for up to 40 mentees. It runs for about nine months and the programme information describes 8–9 mentoring meetings.
Who is it for? recent graduates in economics and business
RIL – Finnish Association of Civil Engineers runs RIL Mentoring 2026–2027 for students, young professionals, specialists and leaders in the built environment sector, using mentoring as the core format. RIL structures its mentoring offer into four tracks for different career stages. The programme uses both pairs and small groups over a period of approximately nine months.
Who is it for? students, young professionals, specialists and leaders in the built environment sector
Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) runs SAFA Mentoring Programme 2026–2027 for final-year architecture students and recent graduates, using mentoring as the core format. SAFA's 2026–2027 programme is a year-long mentoring offer for final-year architecture students and recent graduates, with central recruitment and programme events.
Who is it for? final-year architecture students and recent graduates