Enhancing Leadership Skills in Academia                                                                      workshop in English: June 17-18, 2025

Women Leading in Academia – Program for Professors                                                         10-month qualification program for female professors: August 2025 - June 2026 (application deadline: April 29, 2025)

For more continuing education opportunities, please see the “Successful Leadership” program, which is aimed at all managerial staff at TU Dresden.

Ensuring good scientific practice - for professors                                                            online course in German: May 9, 2025

Implementing good scientific practice in research for professors with management responsibilities                                                                                                                                 on-campus course in German: November 21, 2025

Ensuring good scientific practice - for professors                                                                  on-campus course in German: November 24, 2025

The Graduate Academy provides continuing education and advice on ensuring good scientific practice for doctoral students and postdocs.

For more on the topic of good scientific practice, please visit TU Dresden’s Office for Good Scientific Practice.

Just write. Time to write for professors, writing retreat: March 17-21, 2025

• Individual coaching is an advisory service tailored specifically to your personal goals and needs, which are discussed in a confidential environment and solutions are developed together with the coach.
• You also have the opportunity to participate in team coaching together with your team. An external coach will support you and your team as you reflect on potential and opportunities as well as challenges, and plan next steps. A comprehensive needs assessment is conducted in advance so that we can match you with the right coach.
• In mediation, specially trained, independent third-party mediators help you resolve conflicts constructively. They are neutral and support both sides, creating a space where each perspective is given equal consideration. The objective of mediation is to reach a mutual agreement that meets the needs and interests of all parties and thus allows them to constructively move forward. The process itself is confidential.  Occupational Health Services and the Center for Continuing Education have teamed up in an effort to advance conflict management at TU Dresden, creating a pool of mediators who can be who can be booked as needed in addition to existing services.

• Various teaching consultation opportunities
• Free continuing eduction program on university and media didactics
• Process support for curriculum and degree program development
• Quality development for your teaching (digitalization, qualitative teaching evaluation)

The Center for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL) also provides consultations regarding the Center for University Didactics in Saxony program for professors:

• free courses (including ZiLL continuing education programs)
• Free coaching for teaching staff (contact person for coaching in English: Kathrin Franke)
• Saxon University Didactics Certificate
• University Didactics Certificate Salon (discuss and share ideas with your peers, 2-3 times per year)
• Lunch Lecture (Experts share their ideas on pertinent topics, followed by a discussion. Virtual event, held once per semester)

University Didactics Certificate Symposium on teaching and university development (held on site in Meissen over two days)

Your point of contact:

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Michael Sommer

Teaching and Learning Enhancement for Higher Education

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Tobias Weber

Higher Education Didactics

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Independent learning course on inclusive university teaching
This independent study course teaches the fundamentals of inclusive higher education in a way that is both easy to follow and practical. After completing the course, you will be able to incorporate accessible teaching materials and tools for inclusive teaching into your day-to-day teaching.
Required learning time: 5 modules, each lasting 90 minutes

E-Learning:Introduction and design
The first steps of how to creating a course in OPAL.

The fundamentals of e-teaching
In this independent study module, participants learn about media didactic basics and can select two of the following topics to work on independently: Teaching and learning organization, using media to relay information and using computers to communicate

Supervision of seminar papers and final theses online course
Required learning time: up to 60 work units (1 work unit = 45 minutes), participation can be recognized as AKTive Lehre as part of the Saxon Higher Education Didactics Certificate

You will also find the initial video recordings (each lasts 90 minutes) on “Portfolio in Higher Education” and “Holistically Integrating Writing as a Learning Tool” in the Writing Center’s new OPAL area for teaching staff.

“E-Learning at TU Dresden” info area on OPAL
Various video recordings of online workshops and independent learning modules on (media) didactic topics as well as instructions on how to use the e-learning tools at TU Dresden.

Info area on OPAL for the introduction to e-learning scenarios and for the demonstration of course components
First steps and insight into the OPAL's features as well as a presentation of usage scenarios, tips and potential ways of configuring individual OPAL course modules.

Copyright law in university teaching and classes
Educational resources on copyright in higher education from a teacher's perspective. This course focuses on sharing short videos and on the provision of and handling of Open Educational Resources (OER).

Compensation for disadvantages in exams – what teachers need to know
Presentation by Dr. Maike Gattermann-Kasper (Representative for Students with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses – Universität Hamburg)

Online course on data protection for staff of TU Dresden: 
This online course on data protection explains the basics of the data protection regulations in force at TU Dresden as well as issues of data protection using practical examples.
Required learning time: 30–40 minutes

• Toolbox Unconscious Bias
  The toolbox offers helpful and interesting information as well as impulses in the form of link collections to videos and further (learning) offers.
• E-learning courses on science communication (offered by NaWik, subject to a fee)

E-Learnings in German:

• E-Learning: Konfliktlösung unter Kolleg:innen nach dem Harvard-Konzept
• Online lecture: Virtuell kommunizieren! 7 wirkungsvolle Impulse für die erfolgreiche Online-Kommunikation
• E-Learning: Unconscious Bias                                                                                          
• E-Learning: Biases im Bewerbungsgespräch                                                                
• E-Learning: Fit für die Gleichbehandlung

• E-Learning: Leading effectively without being an executive

E-Learnings in German:

• E-Learning: Laterale Führung – Erfolgreich führen ohne Vorgesetztenfunktion
• E-Learning: Die Führungskraft als Coach und Personalentwicklerin                        
• E-Learning: Change Management - Veränderungsprozesse erfolgreich gestalten:

Online-Schulung zur präventiven und repressiven Korruptionsbekämpfung 

Die Online-Schulung zur präventiven und repressiven Korruptionsbekämpfung wurde für alle Bediensteten des Freistaates Sachsen konzipiert und gehört seit 2015 zu den Selbstlern-Modulen aus dem Weiterbildungsprogramm des Fortbildungszentrums der Hochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung und Rechtspflege Meißen (FH). Bei Teilnahmewunsch senden Sie bitte eine formlose E-Mail an den Antikorruptionsbeauftragten, der Ihnen dann den Link zum Modul zusendet.

Export Control in Science and Academia
E-learning on terms, definitions, structure of export control as well as practical examples and sanctions in the event of misconduct.
Duration: 3 modules, each lasting approx. 20-30 minutes
Completion: Certificate of attendance

Copyright law in university teaching and classes (GER)
Educational resources on copyright in higher education from a teacher's perspective. This course focuses on sharing short videos and on the provision of and handling of Open Educational Resources (OER).

Compensation for disadvantages in exams – what teachers need to know (GER)
Presentation by Dr. Maike Gattermann-Kasper (Representative for Students with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses – Universität Hamburg)

E-Learning: Fit for Equal Treatment (GER)
Offered by the Meissen Training Center (FoBiZ)

• Basic module (for all employees) 60 minutes; with certificate of participation
• Advanced module (for managers) 30 minutes; with certificate of participation

E-Learning: Classic project management – planning projects successfully (GER)
required learning time: 90 minutes (plus time needed to complete the transfer tasks); with certificate of attendance

E-Learning: Classic project management – managing projects successfully (GER)
Required learning time: 80 minutes (plus time needed to complete the transfer tasks); with certificate of attendance

E-Learning: Agile project management – the basics
Required learning time: 70 minutes, with certificate of participation

E-Learning: Didactic foundations for the effective transfer of knowledge
Required learning time: 60 minutes (plus time needed to complete the transfer tasks); with certificate of attendance

• SAP 0 introductory course – E-Learning for staff of TU Dresden
  (Additional courses are held on site)
  Required learning time: 60 – 90 minutes; with certificate
• Self-learning Academy IT security for staff of TU Dresden