Teaching load reduction for professors
The Career Centre for Professorial Development offers professorial staff the opportunity to reduce their individual teaching load for a limited period of time.
Deutsche VersionDeadline for the second application round (summer semester 2026 and winter semester 2026/2027) until 15 June 2025
We honour your commitment and support you in your diverse responsibilities. Pursue your individually chosen specialisation in the two subject areas listed below and apply for a reduction in your teaching load.
Voices of our beneficiaries:
"Sometimes I have ideas for teaching that require an above-average amount of creativity, experimentation, thought time, and preparation. While these ideas would lead to great learning success, they often get neglected in the hectic pace of everyday life. The project now offers a direct opportunity to give these ideas space, develop them, and bring them to fruition. I'm very grateful for this; the students are already looking forward to it, and I'm incredibly excited about the results!"
Lydia Göse, Professor of Digital Marketing
"The application process is incredibly simple. The team of the Career Centre for Professorial Development was able to answer my questions easily and supported me well throughout the application process. It helped me put my project on paper in a structured way. This gave me a reason to approach it systematically."
Isabell Peters, Professor of Administrative Informatics, especially e-Government
Target group
All professors can submit applications, but newly appointed professors (from 2019) will be prioritised in accordance with our funding guidelines.
The applications are reviewed in a two-stage process (Career Centre for Professorial Development and dean) with regard to their plausibility and quality. It will also be assessed whether a reduction in terms of timetabling is feasible.
Topic areas
Teaching, research, transfer and professional development
- You develop new, modern and/or innovative teaching concepts
- You use individual coaching offers to stabilise and expand your interdisciplinary skills
- You develop further training courses, initiate or implement mentoring programmes, etc.
- You prepare or set up research projects/research structures
Support for young researchers
- You supervise (co-operative) doctorates
- You develop and/or support early development programmes, especially for girls in STEM fields
- You develop and/or support development programmes, especially for women in STEM fields
All facts at a glanceOpen areaClose area
- applications for summer semester 2026 and winter semester 2026/2027 can be submitted until 15 June 2025
- last application round for summer semester 2027
- the dean of both departments jointly decide on the amount of the reduction
- if the application is approved, the duration of the reduction is two semesters. You have the option of submitting a follow-up application
- no legal entitlement is derived from this offer
- once the application has been approved, a target agreement is concluded with the dean (content: number of credit hours reduction, duration, defined target(s), other agreements if applicable)
