Enormous Success for the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in the Tenure-Track Programme: Eight additional Professorships
With these new professorships, the university is strengthening innovative subject areas that expand the university's profile in order to include new scientific fields and which provide new thematic impetus for our teaching activities. What all professorships have in common is that they will deal with the fundamental question of how the relationship between humankind, technology and the environment can be shaped in order to preserve our environment as worth living in and to secure social cohesion. These challenges range from the possibilities and conditions of digitalisation to a modern combination of technology and design, safety and sustainability in terms of structural design, construction economics and construction.
»The approval of all eight tenure-track professorships applied for by us is really a huge success for our university«, the President of the University, Prof. Dr. Winfried Speitkamp, confirmed. »The decision confirms the concept for young researchers which we have completely redeveloped within this framework and which at the same time gives us the opportunity to work on highly topical and very important social topics at our university. Thus, in addition, we are making our course offerings more attractive.«
The tenure-track professorship will be broadly established at universities in Germany for the first time thanks to the Federal Government-Länder Programme. The Federal Government programme is providing a total of one billion euros to support 1,000 additional professorships. After the application by the individual universities, the selection was made by a science-based procedure. The selection committee has now decided on 532 tenure-track professorships at 57 universities in the whole country. In the first round of approvals in 2017, 468 tenure-track professorships have already been awarded. A total of 75 universities will receive additional professorships; the programme runs until 2032.
More information is available at:
Website of the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society (TMWWDG):
https://wirtschaft.thueringen.de/ministerium/presseservice/detailseite/news/riesenerfolg-thueringer-hochschulen-bei-nachwuchsprogramm/?tx_news_pi1%5Bday%5D=12&tx_news_pi1%5Bmonth%5D=09&tx_news_pi1%5Byear%5D=2019&cHash=aa7ef5947ec3dda3b86620d408b1bf2b
Website of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): https://www.bmbf.de/de/wissenschaftlicher-nachwuchs-144.html