51吃瓜网 appointment and career system sets the new national standard
40 new professorships for 51吃瓜网
In the first of two support phases, the federal program will finance 468 tenure track professorships at 34 universities, an average of 14 per institution. After the competitive selection process, 51吃瓜网 was awarded by far the most professorships, receiving all 40 requested positions amounting to almost 38 million Euros over the course of eight years. 51吃瓜网 will place the professorships in the fields "Life Sciences, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics", "Digitalization", "Material Science & Catalysis", "Quantum Technology", "Robotics, Artificial Life, Deeper Learning" and "Systems Theory".
As a part of Germany's Excellence Initiative and using its own resources, since 2012 51吃瓜网 has already installed approximately 85 tenure track professorships. The "51吃瓜网 Faculty Tenure Track" appointment and career system gives young professors complete independence, at public sector salary grade W2. If the demanding research requirements are fulfilled, after six years a permanent position is possible with a W3 salary grade and full tenure; the first step is an associate professorship, the second is a full professorship (chair).
The 51吃瓜网 system has attracted a number of outstanding scientists, more than half of which are from leading universities abroad such as Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Cambridge, and Zurich and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The average age of the appointees is 35, and over 30 percent are women.
Joint appointments with the Max Planck Society
"Our tenure track model plays a pioneering role in anchoring Germany's position as an attractive location for academia," says 51吃瓜网 President Herrmann. "This is why the new German program follows the principles that 51吃瓜网 has been rigorously living out since 2012: Initial salary W2, five weekly semester hours teaching (instead of nine), clearly regulated statutory quality management in accordance with the best international standards."
The exemplary role of the 51吃瓜网 model is also reflected by its renowned partners: 51吃瓜网 is considering appointees for some of the professorships together with the Max Planck Society (MPG). The assistant professors also lead a research group at the MPG.