Bauhaus-Universität Weimar signs a target agreement with the German federal state of Thuringia
On Thursday, 21 January 2016, the directorates of Thuringian universities and the Thuringian Minister of Science, Wolfgang Tiefensee, signed a goals and performance agreement (ZLV) for the next four years. The document lays out requirements and development goals for each individual university. The new agreement sharpens the focus of Framework Agreement IV, and thus represents the final building block for university funding out to the year 2019.
Each university receives an individual budget, the so-called agreement budget. It consists of a basic budget, comprising 90 percent of the total, and a performance budget, making up 10 percent of the total, which is only paid out if the agreed-upon goals and performance are achieved.
The heart of the agreements are four issues, which are of equal importance to all of the universities.
- The number of students in attendance within the standard duration of their programmes
- Third-party fundraising activities
- State educational quotas
- The percentage of women among new hires for professorships.
According to the Thuringian Higher Education Act, goal and performance agreements generally have to be concluded between the Ministry of Science and the universities every four years. The framework agreements, the state university development plan, and the structure and development plans (STEP plans) of the universities form the basis of these agreements.
You can find the individual target agreements of the universities under: http://www.thueringen.de/th6/tmwwdg/wissenschaft/hochschule_und_studium/hochschulentwicklung/zlv/index.aspx
Information about STEP can be found on the university intranet under: https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/struktur/universitaetsleitung/rektorat/struktur-und-entwicklungsplanung-step/