Communication and Collaboration
The University of Würzburg strengthens its communication and cross-departmental collaboration as a whole. It continues to develop as an organisation by placing a particular focus on a culture of respectful interaction. The University of Würzburg also sees itself as a responsible employer, which empowers and strengthens its employees in both academic and research-supporting areas to deal confidently with change. Human resources development helps to recognise the expertise, skills and potential of employees, to use them appropriately and to develop them further.
A central task of the university is to strengthen an appreciative communication culture as a fundamental requirement of working life and to permanently anchor the topic of "communication culture" in continuing education. Appreciation should not only be understood as an attitude, but should also be systematically integrated into cross-departmental management programmes and communication tools.
In addition, we consider the promotion of change competence to be crucial in order to enable university staff to see themselves as active agents of social change. The ability to constructively shape complex change processes is indispensable in view of dynamic scientific, technological and social developments. Transformative developments should be initiated and sustainably promoted through own projects and initiatives.
For researchers in early career phases (early career researchers), a structured framework is created to support the transition to scientific independence. This is based on a university-wide, future-orientated learning culture that not only enables self-directed and lifelong learning, but also explicitly encourages and systematically promotes it.
Essential framework conditions for such an environment are a positive culture of error, which strengthens initiative and sees wrong decisions as learning opportunities, as well as the promotion of intercultural competence in the academic and research-supporting areas in order to sustainably shape a professional intercultural dialogue and discourse within the university.
