We honour your commitment and support you in your various tasks
Pursue your individually chosen focus in the two subject areas listed below and apply for a reduction in your teaching load by 5 January 2025.
All professors can submit applications, but newly appointed professors (from 2019) will be prioritised in accordance with our funding guidelines.
Please submit your application for a reduction in teaching load to the Career Centre for Professorial Development. The application must be accompanied by a concept, a work plan and, if applicable, a statement.
Application period: 01.12.2024 to 05.01.2025
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
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- start of the programme in summer semester 2025
- last application round for summer semester 2027
- 18 credit hours can be awarded per semester (in total for both departments)
- the dean and the vice 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)