JProf TU
TU Dortmund University provides its assistant professors ("Juniorprofessuren") with target group-specific support and training.
Junior Faculty Impuls: Effiziente Lehrplanung bei hoher Arbeitsauslastung
- Inform & Network
- Informieren & Vernetzen
- For Junior Faculty
- Für Junior Faculty
- Workshop
In dieser Ausgabe von „Junior Faculty Impuls“ widmen wir uns der Frage, wie Sie Ihre Lehre strategisch, realistisch und effizient planen können – gerade in Phasen besonders hoher Arbeitsbelastung.
Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an Habilitierende, Juniorprofessor*innen und Nachwuchsgruppenleitungen aller Fakultäten, die ihre Lehrplanung professionalisieren, aber zugleich ihre eigene Arbeits- und Lebenssituation im Blick behalten möchten.
Als role models berichten zwei Gäste, die beide bereits Vertretungsprofessuren wahrgenommen haben, aus ihrer Praxis:
- Wie lassen sich Lehrinhalte sinnvoll strukturieren und priorisieren?
- Welche Routinen, Tools und Absprachen entlasten im Semesteralltag?
- Wo liegen typische Fallstricke – und wie kann man ihnen vorbeugen?
Im Anschluss an kurze Impulse der beiden role models gibt es Raum für Fragen, Austausch und kollegiale Diskussion.
Junior Faculty Impuls ist ein digitales Format für die lockere Vernetzung und den Austausch der Habilitierenden, Juniorprofessor*innen, Tenure-Track-Professor*innen und Nachwuchsgruppenleitungen.
Zu wechselnden Themen finden in jedem Semester Veranstaltung statt, zu denen sich jede*r Angehörige der TU Dortmund aus der Statusgruppe anmelden kann.
Moderation: Dr. Verena Peters
Onboarding & Framework Program
The annual welcome event provides optimal onboarding for all new junior professors. Regular information and networking events address the challenges and opportunities of this job profile and enable exchange and networking at the peer level. Workshops are available through the TU Academic Leadership Program for new appointees and the events for junior faculty at the UA Ruhr Research Academy.
Review Meeting & Mentoring
The program also provides individual advice and support for Dortmund assistant professors in the form of review meetings. Two review meetings take place during the qualification phase: Before the interim evaluation with the Dean of the respective department and after the interim evaluation with the Vice President Research.
The JProf TU mentoring complements the review meetings and offers the opportunity to reflect on goals, strategies, and career perspectives with a senior researcher with whom there is no dependent relationship. A mentor can be someone who (1) holds a W2/W3 professorship at the department or is related to the subject, and (2) has been at TU Dortmund University for at least 2 years. The mentorings are organized centrally. The arrangement is bilateral between assistant professor and mentor.
With an overview of assistant professors and their main research areas, TU Dortmund University gives these researchers visibility. All assistant professors at TU Dortmund University are regularly kept up to date on the target group-specific offers via a semester mailing.
Further information on JProf TU can also be found in the concept paper.
Contact person for JProf TU
The „Juniorprofessur“ (here translated as "assistant professorship") is an independent career track to a full professorship in the German academic system, introduced to replace the traditional track requiring a habilitation.
Assistant professors are expected to conduct independent research as well as to teach and supervise at (under-)graduate level. They have a limited term of six years, during which they are given the opportunity to establish their own research agendas and academic profiles.
“Juniorprofessuren” are not always tenured, but advertised as positions with or without tenure. In both cases, a formal evaluation procedure is defined, see https://berufung.tu-dortmund.de/en/appointment-procedure/interim-evaluation/ to learn more regarding the interim evaluation at TU Dortmund University.
Qualification in the framework program:
In addition to these qualification opportunities, the framework program ProfTU keeps you up to date on current developments in the fields:
- Good scientific practice
- Research data management
- Teaching methods
Upcoming events in the qualification program for assistant professors can be found on our events page and at the top of this page.
