Professorship

Professors have a lot of freedom in their work. The following areas comprise your working life - always with a focus on practice:

1. Practice-oriented teaching: teaching 18 hours per week per semester, designing courses and examinations, supervising Bachelor's and Master's theses
2. Application-oriented research: research projects with companies from the region, opportunities for (international) research semesters (ERASMUS). At the Emden/Leer University of Applied Sciences, we have three main research areas: Industrial Informatics, Sustainable Technologies and ROSIG (Resource Orientation between Individual and Society)
3. Academic self-administration: committees and/or offices in the departments (department management) or university management (Senate), active participation in shaping the university, promotion of young talent

The appointment procedure is the formal selection process for filling a professorship. The procedure includes the following steps:

Step 1: Job description and advertisement

Vacant professorships to be filled are publicly advertised by the Presidential Board of the university at the request of the department with a four-week application period. The advertisement contains the position, the area of responsibility, the required recruitment conditions and the date of appointment. The advertisement must be approved by the Ministry before publication.

Step 2: Formation and composition of the appointment committee

The department forms an appointment committee with all status groups for each professorship to be filled. In order to ensure the quality of the appointment procedure, attention is paid to gender parity in the composition of the committee. Professors from other colleges and universities are also consulted to ensure sufficient specialist expertise.

Step 3: Selection procedure

The appointment committee makes a pre-selection from the applications received, taking into account the position-specific criteria and the general requirements for a professorship. On this basis, the appointment committee decides which applicants will be invited to a personal interview with a trial teaching event. After the personal interviews and trial teaching sessions, the appointment committee decides which applicants are qualified for inclusion in the appointment proposal.

Step 4: Appointment proposal

The appointment committee decides on the appointment proposal on the basis of the application documents, any expert opinions requested and the results of the personal interviews with the individual applicants. The appointment report is divided into a progress report on the appointment procedure and a justification of the appointment proposal, which ideally consists of a list of three names. Once the appointment proposal has been completed, it is approved by the Faculty Council, the Senate and the university management. The appointment proposal is then forwarded in its entirety to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture together with all the necessary documents.

Step 5: Appointment and acceptance of appointment

The professors are appointed by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony. The president and applicant then conduct appointment negotiations in which the general conditions for the professorship are discussed. After successful appointment negotiations, the final appointment is accepted.

Further didactic training: Our campus didactics department offers you a comprehensive range of further training courses as well as various events and services in the area of teaching.

Research: To promote research work, the knowledge and technology transfer is available to you for questions relating to proposal and contract research. You can also take advantage of funding advice and the preparation of offers in cooperation with companies.