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Career paths to a professorship

10/16/2025 12:00 PM Clock - 1:00 PM Clock
Attendance:
Online event 
Event location:
  • online
Event Organizer:
  • Graduate Academy
Categories:
  • Seminar
  • Talk
Target groups:
  • Junior Research Group Leaders
  • Postdoktorand:innen/Postdocs
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Language: English.

The career goal ‘professorship’ can be achieved in many different ways today. Academics should therefore inform themselves early on about the best path for them. Participants get an overview of the academic qualifications required to become a professor in Germany and the different paths that can lead to a professorship. The seminar also covers some legal requirements for the selection process for professorships at German universities.

Contents

  • Overview of academic qualifications required for a professorship
  • Different career paths to a professorship in Germany
  • Legal framework of appointment procedures
  • Third-party funded positions vs. state-funded positions
  • Strategies for career planning
  • Insights into current developments in the higher education system

Methods

  • Lecture
  • Q&A
  • Online-Presentation

Prerequisites

To participate, you will need a laptop/PC with a camera, microphone and internet access. The Zoom platform as well as other tools will be used during the workshop and you will receive the link to the online platform a few days prior to the event.
Additional Terms of Use: With your registration, you accept the use of specified platforms/tools and the possibly necessary provision of specified data (name and email address). Additionally, the guarantee of the technical requirements is made by the participants themselves.

 

More information about this event

Event location:

online

Event Organizer:

Graduate Academy

Contact:

Dr. Isabelle Schulze
Universität Kassel
Graduate Academy
General Manager
0561-804 1968
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Speaker:

Katharina Lemke

Katharina Lemke is legal counsel at Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV).

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Program Event

To join this event you have to be registered as a participant of the program "quali.prof@HAW".

Non-participants of the program can attempt to join the event as well. The organizer will review and either accept or deny your application.

Postdocs (R2/R3)
Fee: free
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Booking possible from 29.07.2025, 11:30:00 until 15.09.2025, 23:00:00

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