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Mission Statement
The goal of Professional Development (PD) at the University of Würzburg is to consolidate and develop the skills of employees, teams, organisational units and of the university as a whole as well as the attitudes that guide their actions. Our activities in the area of professional development are being planned with the current and future demands of the workplace in mind. Professional development provides working conditions in which employees experience a higher level of self-efficacy in their work activities in order to ensure their job satisfaction and success in the long term.
Professional Development structures: PD Steering Committee Unit A.2: Professional Development Professional Development Network (PDN) (Inter-)national networks
Professional development acts as both a starting point and an important tool to help implement, and ensure that we reach, the university’s strategic development goals. Its central approach is to develop and implement activities that both align with the university’s overall strategies and meet the needs of the university’s individual organisational units. It thus aims to establish a balance between ensuring that the university reaches its strategic goals and ensuring that the identified needs of its individual organisational units are taken into account (demand orientation).
Together with Organisational Development, Professional Development supports and facilitates change at the university in the form of both personal and grouporiented learning processes. By doing so, it makes an essential contribution to creating a university culture that is recognisable both nationally and internationally and to raising the university’s profile. Therefore, Professional Development and Organisational Development are linked inextricably, and they harmonise and coordinate their efforts.
However, professional development is not only an institutional responsibility. It is also one of the central responsibilities of each manager, a responsibility that cannot be delegated to others. Professional Development helps managers perform their responsibilities relating to the professional development of their team members in an appropriate manner.
The organisational unit ‘Professional Development’ has been created to ensure that the tasks mentioned above are carried out professionally. The team at Professional Development collaborates closely with the staff at other relevant areas of the university about cross-cutting issues including career development for early-career researchers, teaching, diversity and equal opportunity, internationalisation, health, conflict management and sustainability.
Professional Development Steering Committee
A steering committee has been set up to manage Professional Development. This is a permanent steering group that strategically manages the implementation of the Professional Development Strategy and the projects commissioned by the university management. It acts as an interface between the university management and the Professional Development departments.
The Steering Committee:
- Ensures that Professional Development is connected, commissioned and supported by the University Executive Board;
- develops a university-wide strategy for Professional Development that is aligned with the strategic goals and tasks of the university and ensures its implementation;
- sets standards for evidence-based procedures and target group-specific personnel development measures based on needs analyses at the individual, team and institutional levels;
- sets up working groups on specific topics as required.
The steering committee is made up of
- the Vice President for Research and Academic Career Development,
- the Chancellor of the University,
- the head of the organisational unit Professional Development (coordination)
- as well as representatives from the following organisations:
The Professional Development department is the central point of contact for all staff development measures in the academic and research support areas and for all career levels. It supports the university management in the strategic expansion of JMU's personnel development strategy. The department creates framework conditions and develops tools for individual and organisational learning and
- advises managers and university management on how to create working conditions that promote skills and health in the long term.
- provides targeted further education and training programmes,
- ensures systematic reflection on the management culture (e.g. management guidelines),
- initiates platforms for communication and cooperation (e.g. annual appraisal),
- initiates and moderates professional development processes in the scientific and knowledge-supporting areas in cooperation with internal and external organisations
- develops and implements PD instruments
- coordinates and supports the evaluation of HR development measures
- supports junior researchers on individual career paths (within academia and on the way to alternative fields of work)
- advises and supports decentralised units in the development and implementation of professional development measures
- advises users on Professional Development programmes
- coordinates the offers of the virtual umbrella of theJMU Research Academy
Your contact:
Unit A.2.: Professional Development
Phone: +49 931 / 31-89891
personalentwicklung@uni-wuerzburg.de
The JMU Graduate Academy is a central academic institution of the university that aims to strengthen and further develop the doctoral structures at the University of Würzburg. It provides information on doctoral studies at JMU and offers programmes for doctoral candidates and postdocs from all institutions.
The University of Würzburg Graduate Schools (UWGS) acts as an umbrella organisation for four subject-related graduate schools (GSLS, GSST, GSH, GSLES), which cover the research areas of the University of Würzburg and extend across several faculties.
Your contact:
Dr Natalie Rauscher
JMU Graduate Academy
Managing Director
+49 931 / 87767
natalie.rauscher@uni-wuerzburg.de
Dr Stephan Schröder-Köhne
Head of Office UWGS
+49 931 / 31-86068
schroeder-koehne@uni-wuerzburg.de
Under the umbrella of the Gender Equality Academy in the Office of the University Women's Representative (UFB) , we offer career programmes and advice for female academics at all academic qualification levels.
For us, gender-equitable Professional Development encompasses a broad range of topics and activities:
- from interdisciplinary, equal-opportunity study conditions to
- counselling services and scholarships for young female academics,
- mentoring and career development in peer programmes (SCIENTIA, SCIENTIA Postdoc),
- Offers for better compatibility and planning in phases of family-related retirement and re-entry (Wü-KIT),
- Strengthening leadership skills and
- and collegial networking opportunities for (junior) female professors (WLP) through to the
- the collaborative further development of an equal opportunities and diverse academic culture at our university
- with impulses to reduce unconscious bias.
Your contact:
Dr Isabel Fraas
Office of the University Women's Representative
Phone: +49 931 / 31-89429
isabel.fraas@uni-wuerzburg.de
Andrea Bähr
Office of the University Women's Representative
Phone: +49 931 / 31-85665
andrea.baehr@uni-wuerzburg.de
University Teaching and Learning (in the Centre for Teaching and Learning | CTL) has been organising JMU's higher education didactic training courses since 2008 and supports you in all matters relating to teaching.
The programme covers a wide range of topics and combines current trends (such as gamification, virtual reality applications and AI) with practice-oriented teaching of basic university didactics skills. In addition to workshops, lectures and self-study courses, the continuing education programme also includes other offers such as course support, the creation of individual teaching evaluations and the exchange format teaching workshop.
Your contact:
Dr Thorsten Aichele
Tandem team leader ProfiLehre
Centre for Academic Education and Teaching
Phone: +49 931 / 31-81342
thorsten.aichele@uni-wuerzburg.de
Sarah Raith
Tandem Team Leader ProfiLehre
Centre for Academic Education and Teaching
Phone: +49 931 / 31-89386
sarah.raith@uni-wuerzburg.de
Professional Development Network (PDN) at JMU
The areas of the University of Würzburg involved in personnel development processes together form the Professional Development Network (PDN). This ensures a coordinated, strategically orientated and sustainable portfolio of offers for all employees of the University. The Professional Development organisational unit is responsible for coordinating the overall activities of the PDN and organises a joint annual conference for this purpose.
The providers involved - Professional Development, Promotion of Academic Careers (WiKa), Teaching, Diversity and Gender Equality, Internationalisation, Health and Conflict Management and Sustainability - continuously coordinate how the overarching goals of the Professional Development strategy can be brought to life and implemented from their respective specialist perspectives.
In particular, this network includes the following organisations:
- Unit A.2: Professional Development (overarching professional development measures)
- JMU Graduate Academy / University of Würzburg Graduate Schools (ECR)
- Office of the University Women's Representative (diversity and equality)
- University Teaching and Learning (located at CTL)
- Research Advancement Centre (research funding)
- Press and Public Relations (science communication)
- Conflict Counselling Centre (conflict issues)
- Healthy University (health and (self-)leadership)
- Service Centre InterNational Transfer (internationalisation / transfer)
- WueLab (sustainability)
National and international networks
The employees of the Professional Development organisational unit exchange expertise and network as members of nationwide networks and contribute their expertise to university partnerships at the University of Würzburg. Professional Development is currently active in the following networks:
- Long-standing collaboration on the board ofUniNetzPE participation in annual conferences and training courses as well as orientation on the "Code for Good Professional Development at Universities" of the network (UniNetzPE, 2015).
- Active involvement for many years in the Postdoc Support Network the Tenure Track Network, participation in the annual conferences and collaboration on various publications of the university associationUniWinD.
- Active participation in theCOIMBRA GROUP by organising the Three-Minute-Thesis Competition in co-operation with JMU Graduate Academy as well as Press and Public Relations.
- Participation in the activities of theCharm-EU Alliance.
