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If you have received a call to a junior professorship at the University of Bayreuth, all the content presented on this page applies for you as well. In addition, we would like to provide you with some further information that specifically concerns junior professors at the University of Bayreuth.

Performance evaluation and interim evaluation

As a junior professor in Bavaria, you are subject to the regulations of Art. 63 BayHIG. In the first phase of the junior professorship, you will be appointed as a temporary civil servant for a period of three or four years. In the third or fourth year of the junior professorship, an interim evaluation of your performance will be carried out by a commission specially appointed for the purpose. This will be based on the objectives set out in a performance agreement at the beginning of your service.
You will receive a draft of the performance agreement together with your letter of appointment. Up to the date of the appointment hearing, you can discuss this document with the chairperson of the appointment committee and the dean of the faculty, and discuss any changes you wish to make. The performance agreement is the subject of the appointment hearing and is signed together with the appointment agreement.

Tenure Track and Tenure Evaluation

If you have applied for a junior professorship with tenure track, a tenure evaluation will take place in the second phase of the junior professorship (usually in the fifth or sixth year). This will also be carried out by a specially appointed commission and will be based on the goals set out in the performance agreement. Find more information on our W1-W3 Bayreuth track here.

Further information can be found on the intranet (login only possible after accepting a call and receiving a so-called bt number):

Here, we would like to inform you about some of the services offered by our service units, administration departments and central facilities that may be helpful to you around the time of starting your position at the University of Bayreuth. You can also find further details and additional documents on our intranet – no login is necessary for this!

Should your partner also come with you to Bayreuth or Kulmbach and seek employment here, you will receive support from our Dual Career Support, Dr. Mabel Braun.

If you have concerns about childcare or your children's school attendance, please feel free to raise this as part of your Dual Career concerns. You can find more information on family-friendly working and childcare options on the family-friendly university homepage.

If you already have an externally funded project that you would like to transfer from your current institution to the University of Bayreuth, please approach a contact in Department II/1.1.4, Third-Party Funding Administration/Principal Affairs in the Third-Party Funding Area.

If you have any questions about EU-funded projects, please approach a contact in Research Funding.

For newly appointed W3 professorships, there is a further training programme in three areas:

• Gender- and diversity-appropriate personnel management, organised by the Equal Opportunities Office, which also offers special courses for female academics
• Gender- and diversity-appropriate communication, organised by the Diversity Service Centre, which also offers other workshops and coaching on topics such as diversity or anti-discrimination
• Designing teaching innovatively, organised by the Centre for Continuing Education in Higher Education (Zentrum Hochschullehre), which offers further seminars on the topic of "teaching", including target group-specific seminars for professors
  
  

For junior professors with and without tenure track as well as for other junior researchers (PostDocs, junior research group leaders, post-doctoral lecturers), the Staff Office for Young Academics (WiN) offers a comprehensive range of advisory, support, coaching and further training services. This can be completed, among other things, with the WiN Fund Certificate or Bayreuth WiN Certificate, in addition to individual certificates.

You can find your contacts in administration here:

As a civil servant of the Free State of Bavaria, you are entitled to assistance for medical expenses. This means that the state, as the employer, reimburses part of the sickness and welfare costs for its civil service employees. Depending on your marital status and the number of eligible children, this entitlement is between 50% and 80% of the arising costs. The remaining part of the medical costs must be covered by health insurance.

You can find an introductory statement on the subject of aid at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs (https://www.bmi.bund.de/DE/themen/oeffentlicher-dienst/beamtinnen-und-beamte/beihilfe/beihilfe-node.html). Specific information on the regulations in Bavaria can be found on the websites of the Bavarian State Government and the State Office of Finance:

With regard to health insurance, you basically have two options:

Take out private health insurance with the insurance company of your choice. The private health insurance companies offer partial cost insurance tailored to the individual reimbursement rates which, together with the allowance benefits, usually provide comprehensive coverage of the cost risk in case of illness and care.

Further information on this can be obtained from the private health insurance companies or Verband der privaten Krankenversicherung e. V. (Association of Private Health Insurance Companies).

Depending on the number of family members to be insured, this may be the financially more attractive option.

Civil servants who were members of the statutory health insurance scheme (GKV) before joining the civil service can remain voluntary members of the GKV even when they become civil servants. Under certain conditions, family members are also insured free of charge. More information on this can be obtained from the statutory health insurance funds.

However, civil servants who are voluntarily insured in the GKV must pay their health insurance contributions in full themselves; they do not receive a contribution subsidy from their employer.

Although the entitlement to benefits remains in principle, benefits can only be granted in these cases for expenses that are not included in the benefits catalogue of the statutory health insurance.

Our new international employees unfortunately have to deal with extensive HR department documents and more. We have summarised the other necessary steps for you here.

For stays of more than three months or stays that lead to taking up gainful employment, people who do not have German citizenship generally need a visa. EU citizens, nationals of the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland are exempt from this requirement.

You must apply for a visa for a long-term stay at the competent mission abroad before entering Germany. This is the German representation of the country in which your current place of residence is located. Citizens of Australia, Israel, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America can obtain the necessary residence permit after entering Germany. However, we expressly advise against this, as it can considerably delay the start of employment.

Teachers and academic staff do not need the approval of the local foreigners authority to obtain a visa. This also applies to family members, more precisely minor children as well as spouses and life partners, provided that the marriage or life partnership already existed at the time of entry into Germany.

After your arrival in Germany, you must register with the competent registration office within 14 days of your entry. Please make an appointment at the registration office of the city of Bayreuth if your new place of residence is in the City of Bayreuth. Family members travelling with you must also be present at the appointment.

In the City of Kulmbach, please contact the citizens registration office. Alternatively, contact the local municipal administration to register.

After registering your place of residence, you can contact the competent foreigners authority to apply for resident status. You should do this before your visa and that of your accompanying family expires. The responsibilities are as follows:

A person of non-German citizenship who is in a civil servant relationship with a German employer receives a residence permit without the consent of the Federal Employment Agency in order to fulfil his or her official duties in the Federal territory. She receives the residence permit for a period of three years if the employment relationship is not limited to a shorter period. After three years, she may be granted a settlement permit, as an unlimited residence permit.

If a civil servant relationship is not established, a residence title can be granted for skilled workers with academic training, in many cases an EU Blue Card, if the requirements are met.

Your contacts for further information and individual advice on visa matters are the staff of Welcome Services of the University of Bayreuth, who can be reached at welcome@uni-bayreuth.de.