Career Paths
Find out more about career opportunities that can lead to a permanent professorship, such as habilitation or a tenure-track position. We provide comprehensive information and support at every step of your career. Our staff development programme offers onboarding, leadership development, counselling, and personalised support. Discover the latest job vacancies at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Funding Opportunities
Numerous funding opportunities are available to support you throughout your journey from completing your doctorate to obtaining tenure and qualifying for senior academic leadership roles.
These opportunities range from scholarships and academic posts to equipment grants and funding for individual research projects. The Bauhaus Research School provides an initial overview of the programmes available to postdoctoral researchers at an early stage of their careers:
- Individual Grants and Support for Scientific Networks
- Travel expenses and research stays abroad for researchers from Weimar (outgoing)
- Meetings and conferences
- Publication costs
- Scholarships
- Support for individual posts or professorships
- Funding for early-career research groups
- Programmes for visiting researchers from abroad (incoming)
For further advice, please contact us, the Research Office, or the relevant funding body. Further funding opportunities can be found in the EURAXESS funding database and the DAAD scholarship database.
Tenure-Track-Professur
Die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar eröffnet dem akademischen Nachwuchs attraktive und planbare Karrierewege. Der Karriereweg Tenure-Track-Professur soll eine frühe wissenschaftliche bzw. künstlerische Selbstständigkeit ermöglichen und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verstärken.
Quality Support
As a prospective professor, you will also be responsible for supervising doctoral candidates. The Supervision Agreement for Doctoral Projects at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar outlines your responsibilities as a supervisor. This model agreement helps clarify mutual expectations from the outset and throughout the doctoral process.
BauhausTrack Programme
Promoting skills development and professional growth
Individual Counselling and Coaching
Getting startet and career consultation
We help you settle in quickly and build a strong network within the university. We also support you in developing the skills and accessing the resources you need to achieve your goal of becoming a professor or other career paths
Advice
For specific questions or challenges relating to research, teaching or administration, we will connect you with the appropriate contact person.
Coaching
You also have the opportunity to address individual career-related questions and challenges through a short-term coaching programme.
Workshops
Together with your peers, you will discover your strengths as a research manager through a wide range of interdisciplinary programmes, broaden your repertoire of problem-solving strategies and thereby enhance your effectiveness.
A broad spectrum of in-house training programmes is available to you, organised by the relevant departments and central services. If you cannot find the right programme for you, please get in touch!
Here you will find an overview of all BauhausTrack workshops.
Mentoring
Aditionally as a junior professor you also have the opportunity to seek collegial advice from experienced mentors and your peers during your qualification period:
Peer Mentoring
- within the university and across the inter-university online network
- comprises colleagues at the same stage in their careers
- who regularly discuss current topics
- who invite internal and external guests as required
- Dates and registration: please contact Katharina Reinholdt
Tandem Mentoring
- consists of a mentee and a mentor
- the focus here is on personal and strategic issues relating to career planning
- mentors can take part in the annual feedback meetings at the Dean’s Office
- mentors are matched on an individual basis, taking into account their personal preferences and development goals
- mentors are not involved in the committees or decision-making processes relating to the tenure procedure
Mentors within the BauhausTrack
Information and counselling centres
Bauhaus Research School
The Bauhaus Research School (BRS) advises postdocs and junior lecturers on the topics of XY, ABC, JUG and GFD.
M RESEARCH-SCHOOL[AT]UNI-WEIMAR.DE
T +49 (0) 3643 584100
ADDRESS
Marienstr. 14
99423 Weimar
Research Department
The Research Department supports you in securing external funding, with patent matters, and in initiating and supporting transfer-oriented collaborations and participation in trade fairs.
M RESEARCH.DEPARTMENT(AT)UNI-WEIMAR.DE
T +49 (0) 3643 582530
ADDRESS
Cranachstraße 47
99423 Weimar
The Human Resources Department can provide you with support in your role as a manager, with team development and with onboarding processes.
M PERSONALENTWICKLUNG[AT]UNI-WEIMAR.DE
T +49 (0) 3643 582210
W Staff Development and Health Management
ADDRESS
Belvederer Allee 6
99425 Weimar
Equality Office
In addition to explicitly promoting women, the Equality Office is committed to fostering a diverse and family-friendly university and to eliminating gender discrimination.
M EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES OFFICE[AT]UNI-WEIMAR.DE
T +49 (0) 3643 584242
W WWW.UNI-WEIMAR.DE/GLEICHSTELLUNG
ADDRESS
Amalienstraße 13, 3rd floor
, 99423 Weimar
International Office
The International Office provides advice on further education and teaching placements abroad, as well as on establishing international partnerships with (potential) partner universities.
M SERVICE-INTERNATIONAL[AT]UNI-WEIMAR.DE
T +49 (0) 3643 582373
W WWW.UNI-WEIMAR.DE/INTERNATIONAL
ADDRESS
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 15
99423 Weimar
