“The Faculty of Psychology stands for excellent research, outstanding teaching, a working environment characterized by the spirit of authentic, collaborative and appreciative work and the courageous promotion of social and technical innovations”, that is the core statement of the newly published mission statement of the Faculty of Psychology at TU Dresden. With this mission statement, the faculty aims to provide orientation and help all members of the faculty to grow as a community and develop together.

In 2022, work on the mission statement initially began at professor level as part of regular strategy meetings. All other status groups in the Faculty were then involved, intensive discussions were held in the Faculty Council and work continued in smaller groups. The results have now been published on the faculty's website and will be evaluated regularly. “We see it as a 'living document that should guide our actions, but is also constantly evaluated. We invite all members of the faculty to actively participate in the implementation and further development of this mission statement,” explains Prof. Tanja Endrass, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology since 2021.

The mission statement covers various dimensions and fields of action, including collaboration and participation, research and teaching, openness and transparency, social responsibility and many more.

Prof. Katharina von Kriegstein, Vice Dean of the Faculty since 2021, has been involved in the process from the very beginning: “A generational change has been taking place in our Faculty since around 2016. We have accompanied this process with regular strategy meetings. Among other things, two outstanding things have emerged from this: The ideas for the Cluster of Excellence BiC (BiC: Behaviour in Context: Brain and Machine Computations of Behaviour in Complex and Uncertain Environments), which is currently under review, and the mission statement, which is intended to organize the way we work together and how we understand our social mission. This orientation is important to us because we believe that this is the only way to achieve excellent, honest and relevant research and teaching in psychology.”

The complete mission statement: https://tu-dresden.de/mn/psychologie/die-fakultaet/leitbild

Contact:
Prof. Dr. med. Katharina von Kriegstein
Tel. +49 351 463-43901
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