The GSW is responsible for the assessments of:

• scientific employees
• other. Employees/Civil Servants
• research assistants

in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Directorate 8, Unit 8.3 International Office is responsible for the assessments of:

• Student assistant and senior student assistant applications from TU students in bachelor’s, diplom or master’s courses of study
• WHK who are also enrolled as students, except for doctoral students
• scientific Employees, other employees/ civil servants Other employees/civil servants and WHK in the central units and ZUV
• Conferral of a doctorate,
• Inclusion in the doctoral student list and

• Completed and digitally signed form  alternatively signed original
• CV in table form, in German or English
• Notarized copies of all completed academic degrees (Bachelor, Master, Magister, Diplom etc.) with proof of results, i.e. transcripts/mark records, and if applicable PhD, doctorate, Promotion, Habilitation, venia legendi certificate
• Corresponding notarized copies of translations of academic degrees as scan (exceptions: degrees in English, French, Italian, Latin or Spanish)

Preferably, all forms are to be submitted in digital form!

Information about Notarizations

• of Official documents from TU Dresden
• Public Notarization Offices in citizens' information offices in the city of Dresden for larger numbers of notarizations and for documents not issued by the TU Dresden.

Please be aware that no employment contract will be issued until the equivalency assessment has been completed. In order to avoid delays in the hiring process, we ask that you forward foreign academic degrees for assessment ahead of time. 

Here you can find the form of the Equivalency Assessment (please fill out only the german version)

Please send your documents by e-mail to the International Office of the division and, if possible, use the digitally signable version of the assessment form.

Or alternatively, send the documents by (interoffice) mail to the GSW divisional administration.

Dear Sir or Madam,

please note (in view of the notification of several relevant cases by the Foreigners' Registration Office) that concrete offers and commitments to hire applicants may only be made after the hiring process has been fully reviewed in the ZUV. In this regard, I refer to the official channels to be followed (sending the formal application for employment signed by the head of the employment area via the dean / head of the central facility / department head to the ZUV, awaiting release from there after successful review). In order to prove the intention of employment to the foreigners authority / German mission abroad, sample employment contracts are issued by the Human Resources Department after checking the essential requirements for employment (in particular, duration, reason for time limit, confirmation of financing, qualification of the applicant, classification according to collective agreement).

If applicants are to be informed in advance of an intention to employ them (e.g. as a result of interviews based on a job advertisement), it must be clearly expressed that the selection decision and thus the desired employment are subject to review/confirmation by the ZUV and, if necessary, the approval of the staff council and other bodies. The chosen formulations must not give the impression, either for the applicant or for outsiders, that the hiring under certain conditions is already certain or that the execution of the corresponding contract is definitely to be expected. The assumption of any further obligations associated with this (e.g. guarantee of health insurance cover) must also not yet be bindingly promised.

This applies (beyond the possible consequences under employment law of an unauthorized promise of employment) in particular to letters that are intended for obtaining a residence title or can be used for this purpose. If promises made subsequently turn out to be untenable (e.g. due to unsecured financing or insufficient qualification of the applicant), both the author of the promise, his/her superior and the applicant himself/herself are threatened with severe sanctions (criminal offense pursuant to Section 95 (2) of the Residence Act11) for obtaining a residence title by fraud. Corresponding cases can be reported to the main customs office by the foreigners authority.

In the common interest, we therefore urgently request that the above information be observed. If you require any further information on this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me as your contact person for questions relating to residence law in D 2.

With best regards
Konstantin Derham
Tel.: +49 (351) 463-33771
Fax: +49 (351) 463-36944
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