Global Talent Mentoring at the 6th Conference of the International Research Association for Talent Development and Excellence (IRATDE)

The Project Direc­tor, Prof. Dr. Hei­drun Stoeger, and part of the Glob­al Tal­ent Men­tor­ing team attend­ed the 6th Con­fer­ence of the Inter­na­tion­al Research Asso­ci­a­tion for Tal­ent Devel­op­ment and Excel­lence (IRATDE) in Taipei, Tai­wan in April. Prof. Stoeger gave one of the keynotes. She spoke about the impor­tance of self-reg­u­lat­ed learn­ing for gift­ed stu­dents and tal­ent development—a sub­ject that will be part of the men­tor­ing con­cept of Glob­al Tal­ent Men­tor­ing, too.

Mem­bers of the team were also par­tic­i­pat­ing in the con­fer­ence: Dr. Lin­lin Luo and Matthias Mad­er pre­sent­ed Glob­al Tal­ent Men­tor­ing and one of its core fea­tures, the “Plan­ning of Indi­vid­u­al­ized Learn­ing Path­ways”, in a sym­po­sium on “Men­tor­ing for High Achiev­ers in STEM”. Dr. Michael Heile­mann par­tic­i­pat­ed in the same sym­po­sium with his find­ings on “The Influ­ence of Learn­ing Resources on Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Behav­ior and Men­tor­ing Suc­cess in an Online-Men­tor­ing Pro­gram for Tal­ent­ed Girls”. Final­ly, Dr. Daniel Balestri­ni pre­sent­ed his research on “Sub­stan­ti­at­ing Cul­tur­al Ori­en­ta­tions Sup­port­ive of High Aca­d­e­m­ic Achieve­ment” in East Asia and the Unit­ed States.

The very well orga­nized con­fer­ence with the mot­to “Nur­tur­ing Poten­tials Into Full Bloom and Into Excel­lence” was a great suc­cess. The Glob­al Tal­ent Men­tor­ing team used the oppor­tu­ni­ty to fur­ther expand the net­work for recruit­ing mentees and men­tors and to estab­lish con­tacts for future coop­er­a­tion with tal­ent devel­op­ment experts from all over the world. Among oth­ers we dis­cussed Glob­al Tal­ent Men­tor­ing with researchers and prac­ti­tion­ers from the USA, India and, of course, var­i­ous East Asian coun­tries. All of them were very inter­est­ed and eager to par­tic­i­pate in Glob­al Tal­ent Mentoring.