Bridging Our Borders Opening Ceremony

Bridging Our Borders will be a multi-country collaboration in which students from each participating country’s association can participate as mentees, and are matched with mentors sourced by another participating country’s association. Mentors’ profiles will be provided for mentees to find out more about the mentors before they indicate their preferences, and are matched to mentors. An opening ceremony is conducted to start off the programme. Thereafter, mentors and mentees will meet every 2 weeks at their own time over 1.5 months. The programme will follow a group mentorship model with 6-8 mentees to 2 mentors, from different countries but the same field. We aim to assign mentees of different countries to each group to encourage mingling. Each meeting aims to help broaden mentees’ perspectives and allows them to learn more about the practice of pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences in other countries, possible education pathways one can consider as well as life overseas. A closing ceremony will be conducted to officially conclude the cycle.