Attracting more young people, particularly young women, into ET, is a keyelement in contemporary higher education in Europe. Moreover, the Bologna process, as well as the changing fields of activities for engineers, reveal new challenges in living up to the requirements of change processes in a sustainable manner. Therefore teaching and learning concepts are needed which

• focus on integrative enhancement of interdisciplinary and personal skills

serve to increase young people’s interest in ET and attract new peer groups (particularly women)

connect theory and their translation into practical action

sensitize students to self-reflection and life-long-learning

strengthen school-university networks

Project-Mentoring as one example is based on the mentoring relationship between students (in their role as mentors) and secondary school pupils (in their role as mentees). It combines a classic mentoring approach with technical and engineering projects. The objectives mentioned above are supported by the structure of the module: project seminars (contents among others: interdisciplinary aspects, gender awareness and technical skills), development of individual research topics and projects stimulating individual learning and development processes. Project- Mentoring is aimed at secondary school pupils, in order to share the fascination of technology and for them to gain insight into the university. The educational concept, its objectives and curricular integration will be presented, as well as the research design, the empirical findings so far, and their impact on the questions under discussion at the HELENA conference.