Lunch & Learn

Lunch & Learn is all about...

... grabbing lunch and new ideas all at once. Our new online format provides exciting input on various university-related topics - tailored to your lunch break. Together with various stakeholders from our (and other) universities as well as external experts, we offer a wide range of topics.

Focus on the appointment procedure

In the winter semester 2025/2026, Dr Markus Glöckner, a long-standing expert in higher education law with a special focus on appointment issues, will provide insider knowledge for successful appointment procedures in three consecutive sessions. After a compact lecture section, each session will be followed by a moderated discussion with room for questions from the audience. This means that the format also depends on your participation.

So tune in and take away food for thought, but also ask your questions to the speaker and the moderator - and don't forget your lunch!

Does it get any better?

Between the demand for excellence and the reality - Why the appointment procedure is not a sure-fire success! 

When? November 27, 2025, 12:30-13:30

Where? Webex

Who? Experienced members of the university who are open to development - in particular members of appointment committees, students and staff with an interest in academic self-administration

Pt. I: November 27, 2025

Process overview with examples and suggestions for optimisation:

• Call for applications including waivers
• Composition of the appointment committee (bias, in-house appointment)
• Selection of the best candidates (linking selection criteria and call for applications)
• Communication with applicants
• Handling application documents

Pt. II: December 16, 2025

Scheduled topics including examples and suggestions for optimisation

• The process leading to the appointment list (pre-selection, personal presentation, assessment, ranking)
• Documentation obligations
• Competitor notification, legal remedies
• Termination of appointment procedures

Pt. III: January 15, 2026

Scheduled topics including examples and suggestions for optimisation

• Special appointment procedures (e.g. joint appointments)
• Time for open questions and topics (also from the previous parts of the event

About the speaker

Dr Markus Glöckner has been a legal advisor for 20 years and head of the administrative office responsible for appointment procedures at the University of Rostock for more than 10 years. He has also been lecturing on higher education law topics throughout Germany for 20 years - including at the Academy for Higher Education Law, EuroAcad GmbH and inn:öv. Since 2018, his focus has been on seminars on appointment procedures at universities and HAWs. In addition to general appointment law, his portfolio also includes special forms (such as junior professorships, tenure track, joint appointments) and special procedural situations (such as bias, cancellation of appointment procedures or competitor disputes).

He shares this knowledge in a compact, well-founded and directly applicable way in three parts of our Lunch & Learn series.

Interested in the Event?

Participate via this link.

Note on accessibility: The events will be held in spoken German. In the Q&A part, we will do our best to cater to individual language needs (DE/EN).