Habilitation at our Faculty

Information on the Habilitation procedure

Link to the offical webpages at the Vicerectorate of Research - "Ablauf des Habilitationsverfahrens"


Central documents

 

What is a habilitation?

  • § 103, UG 2002:
    (2) A prerequisite for the granting of the license to teach is proof of excellent scientific or artistic qualifications and multiple teaching activities at recognized post-secondary educational institutions to prove the didactic skills of the applicant.
    (3) The scholarly work submitted has/have to     1st be methodically sound, 2nd contain new scientific findings and 3rd demonstrate the candidate’s scientific mastery of the academic discipline in which the Habilitation is pursued, and the ability to communicate it.

 

Procedure

  • Documents (see leaflet for habilitations):
    1. application
    2. CV
    3. academic degrees
    4. written work(s)
    5. declaration of co-authorship
    6. list of publications
    7. other scientific achievements
    8. list of courses (+ evaluation results)
    9. conversation/letter of endorsement Dean
    10. submission of application at the Vicerectorate of Research

 

Commission

  • Universiy Senate appoints commission members
  • 5 representatives from among the professors (at least one external person)
  • 2 representatives from the "mid-level faculty" (at least one of them habilitated)
  • 2 representatives from among the students
  • Habilitation procedure is a procedure according to the Allgemeines Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz 1991
  • therefore, the bias regulations according to § 7 also apply
  • recommendation of awarding the venia docendi
  • Rector decides on allocation

 

Reviewers

  • professors of the University Senate decide on the proposal of professors of the research field and of the Dean the reviewers
  • 3 reviewers, ideally 2 external persons (at least 1)
  • reviewers may not be part of the commission
  • Task of the reviewers according to the statute:
    (7) Reviewers must examine in detail and in a way that is comprehensible for the habilitation committee the fulfillment of the requirements specified in § 103 Para. 2 and 3 UG for applicants and whether the submitted written work is 1st be methodically sound, 2nd contain new scientific findings and 3rd demonstrate the candidate’s scientific mastery of the academic discipline in which the Habilitation is pursued, and the ability to communicate it (§ 103 Para. 3 UG).

 

Monograph or cumulative habilitation

  • Results of the faculty working group (as of April 6th, 2011 -- no decision!):
    As proof of the continuity of the research achievements and their connectivity within the subject, cumulative written qualification achievements should contain an introductory part in which a comprehensive reconstruction of the international research discussion in the relevant area, including a systematic localization of one's own position, is to be provided. Furthermore, it is expected that the introduction makes the theoretical, methodological and empirical relevance of one's own work for the habilitation subject tangible and makes the inner connection between the different parts of the anthology clear. Recommendations for a cumulative habilitation: 10 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals are expected. Some of these essays (max. 5) can be offset against writings with a monographic character (e.g. parts of books). At least 5 articles must have been published in international journals with double-blind review processes.
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