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.
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Pursue your individually chosen specialisation in the two subject areas listed below and apply for a reduction in your teaching load. The application deadline for the summer semester 2025 and winter semester 2025/2026 has expired.
You have the opportunity to apply for the second application round (summer semester 2026 and winter semester 2026/2027). Further information on the application period will be published here.
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
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- start of the next application round in summer semester 2026
- 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)
