Mentees Selection Criteria
To participate in Ouissal, you ideally meet the following requirements:
Career
- An entrepreneur with solid and scalable business plan
- Have already secured the basic financing of the business
- A strong interest in integrating sustainability and digital transformation into the business plan
Commitment to the Program
- Willingness to invest approximately 2 hours per week for around 9 months, from the Kick-off meetings until the Women’s Forum, in a group mentoring relationship
- Commitment to successfully developing a sustainable business plan with the support of the mentor and the mentoring group
- Maintaining local, regional, and international connections with other women entrepreneurs and female executives gained through the OUISSAL Project
- Participation in one of the mandatory Kick-off meetings:
- Morocco: TBA
- Tunisia: January
- Egypt: February
Kick-off meetings usually take place on weekdays, with arrival on Monday and departure on Friday. Participants residing in the host country are expected to attend the corresponding meeting.
- Participation in the 7th German-Arab Women’s Forum in Berlin in Autumn 2026 subject to the mentee’s performance evaluation by the mentor and the OUISSAL Team
- Interest in intercultural exchange and sharing professional perspectives
- Commitment to connect with and support women in the OUISSAL Network, including past and current participants
- Demonstrate respect, self-awareness, and reflective personal qualities
Language skills
- Very good knowledge of English, as all kick-off meetings, events, workshops, and online sessions will be conducted in English
- Other languages may be used during the group mentoring phase if agreed upon by all participants in the group
Our expectations of a mentee:
What is a mentee? | What is not a mentee? |
Sparring partner | Allegiance |
Impulse giver | Potential copy |
Direction giver | Mentor’s “daughter” |
Knowledge carrier | Completely ignorant and unspecialised |
Networker | Recipient of orders |
Motivated person | Consultant |
Interested person | Consumer |
Feedback provider |
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Feedback receiver |
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Additional Notes:
- Ouissal is a mentoring program, not a coaching program. All participating mentors in this program are women from the business community who share their wealth of knowledge and experience with the mentees on a voluntary basis.
- Ouissal does not aim to create entry opportunities in new markets, does not serve as an internship or job exchange or as a platform for commercial partnerships.
- The costs for the entire program will be covered (e.g. travel expenses, meals, accommodation).
