Since 2002, Europa-Universität Flensburg has appointed junior professorships to advance the careers of early-stage researchers. The junior professorship model is thus a firmly anchored component of the university’s structured career path objectives. EUF has routinely offered such positions since 2010, and its commitment to promoting professorships with tenure-track whenever possible has been a part of its structural and developmental plans since 2014.

Information on the basic salary for grades W1 to W3 in accordance with the Schleswig-Holstein Salary Act (Annex 5 No. 3) can be found here.

Europa-Universität Flensburg offers extensive services for its employees. The following offers could be of particular interest for the qualification phase of junior professors:

• Are you interested in working at the European University Flensburg (EUF) or have you recently started working at the EUF? Welcome Service information about the organization and offers of the EUF as well as about arriving in the Flensburg region can be found on the Welcome Service web pages of the Equal Opportunity Department. If you have any questions or need support, please do not hesitate to contact the contact persons of the department.

• The EUF research funding team will be happy to assist you in initiating your research projects by providing information, advice and research funding opportunities from the Research Unit, the ICES Research Center and the ZeBUSS Research Center. 
   

• The EUF Academic Editing Service is a free-in house service that offers professional academic editing for English-language research proposals, scholarly articles and other manuscripts for publication.

• The Graduate Center (GraZ) offers post-docs and junior professors an interdisciplinary qualification program to support their research in the areas of 'research, writing, publishing', 'applying for third-party funding and academic communication' and 'career and profile development'. The Competence Center for Teaching and Learning offers courses on university didactics and the "ReflActive Teaching" certificate program.

• Junior professors can receive professional advice from their respective institute heads. This offer is available on various occasions during the course of the junior professorship: at the introduction, in the middle of the first phase, after a positive interim evaluation, and after a negative interim or final evaluation. For more detailed explanations, see the guidelines for counseling interviews of the institute's executive board with junior professors adopted by the Senate.

• In September 2021, the Senate created an access option also for junior professors to research-related teaching load reductions, see criteria for research-related teaching load reductions. A teaching load reduction has no influence on the interim or final evaluation with regard to research and teaching performance.

• In cooperation with the Center for Continuing Education, the Equal Opportunity Unit offers workshops and coaching sessions for junior professors. In a modular support model consisting of workshops, small group coaching sessions and individual coaching sessions, junior professors are given the opportunity to clarify their needs for advice and reflection and to work on them individually in individual coaching sessions. Thematic focus: Peer mentoring / collegial counseling, career planning, application strategies / application training (especially appointment procedures), communication, cooperation, conflict.

• The project "Promotion of Quality and Internationalization of Tenure-Track Professorships (FQI)", which is financed by the Federal-State Program for the Promotion of Young Academics, offers a subsidy for childcare costs as support for junior professors to improve the compatibility of work and family. Please see the information sheet for the funding conditions and use the corresponding application form. This offer serves to test a new funding instrument and is initially limited in time.

• The family service provides information on childcare options and leisure activities in the city of Flensburg and the Schleswig-Flensburg district. EUF's care exchange FLummi can be used to find short-term and permanent caregivers for children or relatives in need of care. Among its offers as a family-friendly campus are parent-child rooms and a mobile children's toy box that can be borrowed. Further information is available on the topics of caring for relatives and work and family.

Europa-Universität Flensburg will receive financial support from the Tenure Track Programme of the German Federal Government and the Federal States to support four new professorships. EUF was successful in the open, nationwide competition for a total of 532 tenure-track professorships and is one of 57 universities whose concepts are being funded.