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Fairy Pauline Heuermann
Bielefeld University

Fee Pauline Heuermann

Programme planning and coordination

centre-for-professors@uni-bielefeld.de
+49 521 106-12552
UHG C3 - 145
 

Participant management
Bielefeld University

Magnus Haurenherm

Participant Management

centre-for-professors@uni-bielefeld.de
+49 521 106-86906
UHG C3 - 123

 

The professorship - rights and obligations

Consultants:

RA Prof. Dr Dirk Böhmann, Solicitor and Legal Adviser on medical law, higher education law, employment law and civil service law at the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers

RA Dr Sven Hendricks, Solicitor and Legal Adviser on higher education law, civil service law and pension law at the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers

Date options

16.06.26, 09:00-13:00, online

03.11.26, 09:00-13:00, online

Course language German

 

Contents

The office of university lecturer has a special status in terms of civil service law, as university lecturers are usually civil servants for life and at the same time holders of academic freedom. Due to this dual position, professorial employment law differs considerably from that of other civil servants.
The performance of central tasks in research and teaching is protected by academic freedom. Knowledge of the special status under employment law, the rights and obligations as well as the official duties is of great practical importance for first-time professors, but also for university lecturers already in office. The online seminar serves as an orientation on the rights and obligations as a university lecturer - even beyond the "first 100 days" in office.

Topics

I. Block of topics

The specific professorial employment law

  • Position of the university lecturer within the university
  • Freedom from instructions, independence and autonomy
  • Residence obligation, attendance obligation, holidays and business trips, working hours
  • Right to secondary employment
  • Rights and obligations as a supervisor

Teaching, examination, self-administration

  • Freedom to teach and its limits
  • Teaching obligations and organisation
  • Examination regulations and obligations
  • Self-administration

II. thematic block:

Research as an official duty

  • Freedom of research
  • Research semester
  • Special academic leave
  • Copyright law
  • Invention and utilisation
  • Scientific misconduct
  • Acquisition of third-party funding versus criminal liability
  • Research and remuneration (in particular research allowance)

Registration

If you would like to take part in the seminar "The Professorship - Rights and Obligations", please contact the Centre for Professors (gutankommen@uni-bielefeld.de).

 

 

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