YOUProf - Young Professors Program

The path to a professorship is an exciting yet demanding phase in your academic career, presenting individual challenges stemming from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, personal life situations, or varying degrees of professionalization. For this reason, we have established a central counseling center to provide you with comprehensive and tailored support throughout your career journey.

A Central Counseling Center - A Protected Space with Numerous Benefits

Individualized Support: We address your specific goals, level of professionalization, and personal situation to provide you with the best possible support.
Early Problem Identification: Potential difficulties or crises can be recognized and addressed early, before they escalate into larger problems.
Transparency and Process Security: We develop information and guides related to the tenure phase and evaluation processes to provide you with maximum clarity.
Moderation, Networking, and Strengthening the University Community: We consolidate information, support smooth processes, and significantly contribute to a supportive and appreciative culture for tenure-track professors.

A Broad Counseling Service - Comprehensively Tailored to Your Needs

To provide you with optimal support, we accompany you from the start of your position until you get a permanent professorship or another follow-up position. Our counseling program focuses on the following thematic areas:

Job profile

Leadership and Management / Status Definition: Support in assuming leadership and management roles and clarifying your position.
Research, Teaching, Transfer: Guidance in acquiring and implementing research projects, developing your research profile, didactic concepts, designing examinations, interacting with students, and knowledge transfer activities.
Administrative Tasks and Committee Work: Support in understanding university structures and processes and active participation in committees.
Career Path: Advice on internal career development, formal status changes, changing institutions due to an external offer, or in cases of disruptions and crisis situations.

Profession

Career Planning and Development: Strategic planning of your academic profile development, publication strategies, networking, and increasing your visibility.
Professionalization: Planning your qualifications and exchanging ideas with peers and mentors.

Person

Role Clarification: Support in balancing professional and private demands.
Personal Development: Offerings on time management, stress management, resilience, and coping with crisis and decision-making situations.
Legal and Administrative Questions: Clarification of questions regarding employment contracts, evaluation regulations, and funding guidelines for individual programs.
Work-Life Balance: Advice on mobility, childcare, and caring for relatives.

Our Counseling Formats - Individually Provided Services

The YOUProf program offers you confidential access to information and advice. We also see ourselves as guides and are happy to refer you to specific internal or external counseling services if needed (e.g., research funding, family service, psychological counseling, etc.).

Our offerings include:

Individual Counseling: Confidential discussions for individual clarification of questions and development of solution strategies.
Online Resources and Information Tools: Provision of handouts, materials, checklists, and FAQs.
Group Counseling and Workshops: Topic-specific offerings for exchange and collaborative problem-solving, as well as networking.
Mentoring Referral: Support from experienced professors or peers.

Our Principles - Voluntariness, Transparency, and Confidentiality

Voluntariness: Utilizing our counseling services is, of course, voluntary. Individual development is only possible in an environment where you feel you can open up.
Transparency: We clearly present the services and conditions of our counseling.
Confidentiality: All concerns are treated with the utmost confidentiality. No information or impressions from counseling sessions will be passed on to third parties. If it is helpful for finding a solution to involve other parties in the counseling process, this will only happen with the consent of the person seeking advice.

Contact

We look forward to accompanying and supporting you on your career path – contact us!

YOU PROF Young Professors Program

Alena Fröde

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Appointment Team of the Rector

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Visiting address:

Günther-Landgraf-Bau (GLB), room 7-116 Mommsenstr. 15

01069 Dresden

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fax Fax: +49 351 463-42465