Promoting Talent
This third package of measures targets the international recruitment of outstandingly talented researchers and promoting their career development. The focus lies on attracting excellent scholars and scientists to Bremen, especially young researchers, where they will receive individual support.
The University is well aware of how much it owes to the resourcefulness and creativity of these groups and does all it can to support them by promoting their development, gender mainstreaming, and maintaining flat hierarchies.
M7 - ProUB PLUS Graduate Center
The measure “ProUB PLUS Graduate Center” seeks to expand the offer of ProUB and aims at achieving a quality “plus” for doctoral candidates: The funding encompasses Success Teams, ProUB networks, post-graduate level research projects and external examiners.
M8 – Post-Doc Initiative
The Post-doc Initiative opens up an additional career path beside those of Junior Professor and leadership of a Junior Research Group. Young post-docs can participate in a competitive procedure for so-called “early career positions” of maximum two-year duration. Advanced post-docs subsequently build up independent work groups. They are expected to face the competition and secure external funding before the two years are over, as well as to pave the way for their appointment to a professorship.
M9 Female Professor Program
The declared aim of the University’s female professor program is to increase the quota of female professors. The program offers incentives such as ahead-of-schedule appointments, start-up support, research stays abroad and reductions in teaching loads. Between 2013 and 2017 the University intends to fund five professorships and accordant support staff within the frame of its Female Professor Program.
