Policy

Everything behind the curtains

What to expect? (volunteers)

Here, every volunteer:
👍 Is going to be matched with a student with THE SAME interests
👍 Is going to meet student ONLINE (via preferred platform)
👍 Has an ability to change student / leave the program.

What to expect? (students)

Here, every student:
👍 Is going to receive mentorship from one volunteer with the SAME interests
👍 Is going to receive help ONLINE
👍Has an ability to change mentor / leave the program

What do volunteers receive?

✅ Volunteering experience - teaching a student from other point in a globe, thus receiving more knowledge about the subject
✅ Research project as a result of working with your student
✅ Volunteering hours, spent with a student (the sum of all lessons' time)
✅ Flexible volunteering hours: we encourage volunteers to negotiate meetings dates by themselves. We only require to meet the student at least once a week.

Who we look for?

👍 A person, who has higher education degree (min. - Bachelor's, max - no limit).
👍A person, thriving to help others and explore. We are hiring volunteers, who have true motivation.
👍 Experience in a certain field. A bachelor, who explored a lot in chemistry, a master, who wrote an entire research project or Ph.D with exceptional thesis.
👍 Communication skills. To ensure comfort and clarity during the meeting, we encourage volunteers to be friendly and initiative.

Safety

- We do not accept volunteers without any experience.

- We require a video of a volunteer before meeting with a student.

- We encourage both students and volunteer to write a report with help of our prompt, if any inappropriate actions spotted.

- We strictly prohibit inappropriate behavior between tutor and a student. Such behavior is: asking personal questions, anything sex and NSFW related during the meeting, using curse words, bullying, asking personal info

- We do NOT spread any personal and contact information, we utilize it only to connect student with volunteer. We offer a checkbox in our application form with agreement to use contact info.