MATCH MADE MENTORING program 

Apply to MATCH MADE – mentoring program

Are you interested in career development or entrepreneurship? Would you like to do develop your professional skills? Or maybe you would like to strengthen your business spirit, share your own experience and inspire future professionals?

In the joint mentoring program of Kajaani University of Applied Sciences and Kainuu Entrepreneurs, local entrepreneurs and students, teachers, professionals and experts interested in entrepreneurship meet. In the mentoring program you can network, get inspired and get support for you work and entrepreneurial path. The duration of the program is six months, starting in October 2025.

MATCH MADE MENTORING – Mentoring program schedule and application

• Mentors: register as mentor candidates using the form between 5.9. – 26.10.2025.
  Sign up as a mentor here
  
• Mentees search for a suitable mentor candidate from the From the Mentor Pool tab on the businesskainuu.fi websites and send a mentoring request to their chosen mentor between 29.10.-11.11.2025.
  Sing up as a mentee here
  
• The closing event: Tuesday, 21.4.2026 at 9:00-11:00 AM at Kajaani Kampus.
  
  The mentoring program is organized by projects co-funded by European Union: Kainuu in all its diversity -project (KAMK), Future entrepreneurs from Kainuu -project (KAMK, City of Kajaani´s Municipal Educational Enterprise and Kainuun Yrittäjät), Promoting entrepreneurship and changes of ownership as part of a fair and green transition (Kainuun Yrittäjät).