Continuing Education and Counselling for Professors
As a professor, you have to fulfill the most diverse tasks and roles: You are a teacher, a researcher, a manager, a project manager, you supervise doctoral students, you have to take care of the financing of required resources and you are active in university committees. In addition, you often face challenges in balancing family and career.
The Center for Continuing Education (ZfW) supports you with a wide range of continuing education and counselling services. The offer is open to all professors at the TU Dresden.
You will benefit from scientifically based and practice-oriented workshops that will help you to professionalize your leadership, communication, management and didactic skills. What our participants particularly appreciate is the opportunity to network with colleagues during the workshops.
In addition to this, we arrange customized individual and team coaching sessions in which you work on topics tailored to your needs. We also offer all our workshop topics as a customized offer for you and your team.
We work with experienced trainers and coaches who are familiar with the specifics and challenges of the university context.
With our offer, we would like to make it easier for newly appointed professors to get started in their various tasks. Furthermore, our training and coaching offers are part of the YouProf program for junior and tenure-track professors.
We support you in the development of your interdisciplinary competencies and, if required, develop an individual further education plan with you. We will be happy to advise you in a personal meeting about our and other continuing education opportunities at the TU Dresden.
Offers by the Center for Continuing Education:
Please take a look at our qualification and counselling program"Successful Leadership" for workshops on this topic. The program is aimed to support you as an executive at TU Dresden in your daily work. Furthermore, your competencies in leading will be strengthened with special workshops, networking and individual counselling.
The Rules of Good Scientific Practice in Everyday Research (in German)
Online-Workshop: February 10th, 2023, 9:00am - 16:30pm
Good Scientific Practice – Protecting Scientific Integrity Online-Workshop:: June 26th/27th, 2023, 9:00am - 12:30pm
For PhD students and PostDocs, the Graduate Academy offers continuing education and consulting to ensure good scientific practice.
Further information and offers on the topic of "Good Scientific Practice" can be found at the Office for Good Scientific Practice of the TU Dresden.
Kompetenz-Kompass für Vorsitzende und Mitglieder von Berufungskommissionen Modul 1: Aktive Rekrutierung
Workshop: 02.03.2023, 9:00 - 12:00 oder 10.03.2023, 9:00 - 12:00
Kompetenz-Kompass für Vorsitzende und Mitglieder von Berufungskommissionen Modul 1: Aktive Rekrutierung
Workshop: 10.03.2023, 9:00 - 12:00
Micropolitics and Committee Work – Understanding the Strategic Use of Informal Power Online-Workshop: May 15th/16th and June 15th, 2023, 9:00am - 12:30pm
Presentation coaching:
Appear consistent. Appear coherent - Effective rhetoric for university lecturers.
In individual coaching, you will receive professional feedback and tips on your own voice and speaking effect for very individual speaking situations. 5 dates by arrangement.
Individual coaching is a counselling service that is geared entirely to your personal goals and concerns. In a confidential setting, these are discussed and options for action are developed together with the coach.
Together with your team you have the possibility to participate in a team coaching. Accompanied by an external coach, you and your team reflect on potentials and challenges and plan further measures. In advance, a comprehensive needs assessment is carried out so that we can suggest suitable coaches.
In mediation, specially trained mediators act as independent third parties to help resolve conflicts constructively. They are impartial, i.e. they support all sides and provide a framework in which everyone's view of the problem can be adequately appreciated. The goal of mediation is to reach a mutual agreement that meets the needs and interests of all parties and thus allows them to look constructively to the future. The proceedings themselves are confidential. As part of the further development of conflict management at the TU Dresden, a pool of mediators has been made available in cooperation between the Health Service and the Center for Continuing Education to complement existing offers. These mediators can be booked as needed.
Offers by the Center for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL):
General overview of the offers of ZiLL
- Continuing education and consulting on higher education and media didactics
- Digital learning and teaching
- Coordination and consulting on offers of the Center for Higher Education Didactics Saxony (HDS): offers of the HDS (e. g. workshops, coaching) (in German)
Your contact person:

Consultant
NameMichael Sommer
Higher Education Didactics
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Visitor Address:
Fritz-Foerster-Bau, K 37 Mommsenstr. 6
01069 Dresden
Self Learning Offers
E-Learning: Klassisches Projektmanagement - Projekte erfolgreich planen
In German; required learning time: 90 minutes (plus individual time required to complete the transfer tasks); with certificate of attendance
E-Learning: Klassisches Projektmanagement - Projekte erfolgreich steuern
In German; required learning time: 80 minutes (plus individual time required to complete the transfer tasks); with certificate of attendance
E-Learning: Agile Project Management - Basics
In English, required learning time: 70 minutes; with certificate of attendance
E-Learning: Konfliktarten kennen und erkennen
In German, required learning time: 60 minutes; with certificate of attendance
E-Learning: Konfliktlösung unter Kolleg:innen nach dem Harvard-Konzept
In German, required learning time: 50 minutes (plus individually required time for processing the transfer tasks); with certificate of attendance
Online lecture in German: Virtuell kommunizieren! 7 wirkungsvolle Impulse für die erfolgreiche Online-Kommunikation
E-Learning: Didaktische Grundlagen für die wirksame Weitergabe von Wissen
In German, required learning time: 60 minutes (plus individual time needed to complete the transfer tasks); with certificate of attendance
E-Learning: Lateral Leadership - Leading Effectively Without Being a Supervisor
50 minutes (plus individually required time to complete the transfer tasks); with certificate of attendance
E-Learning: Die Führungskraft als Coach und Personalentwicklerin In German, required learning time: 50 minutes (plus time required individually to complete the transfer tasks); with certificate of attendance
E-Learning: Change Management - Veränderungsprozesse erfolgreich gestalten:
In German, required learning time: 60 minutes (plus time required individually to complete the transfer tasks); with certificate of attendance
Online-Schulung zur präventiven und repressiven Korruptionsbekämpfung (in German)
The online training on preventive and repressive anti-corruption was designed for all employees of the Free State of Saxony and has been part of the self-learning modules from the continuing education program of the Meißen University of Applied Sciences (UAS) since 2015.
There is a module with basic knowledge and an in-depth module. If you wish to participate, please send an informal e-mail to the Anti-Corruption Officer Ms. Felicitas Roth, who will then send you the link to the module.
UHU - Urheberrecht in Hochschullehre und Unterricht (in German)
Training materials on the copyright framework for university teaching from the perspective of teachers. The focus is on the one hand on the provision of short videos and on the other hand on the provision and handling of Open Educational Resources (OER).
Nachteilsausgleich bei Prüfungen – Was sollten Lehrende darüber wissen? (in German)
Presentation by Dr. Maike Gattermann-Kasper (Coordinator for the concerns of students with disabilities or chronic illnesses; Representative for the concerns of students with disabilities - University of Hamburg)
Online training on data protection for employees of TU Dresden:
With the online training on data protection, the basics of the data protection regulations applicable at the TU Dresden as well as the contents of data protection are explained using practical examples.
Processing time: 30-40 minutes
Selbstlernkurs zur inklusiven Hochschullehre (in German):
Dieser Selbstlernkurs vermittelt die Grundlagen inklusiver Hochschulehre verständlich und praxisnah. Nach Teilnahme an dem Kurs werden Sie barrierefreie Lehrmaterialien und Bausteine für eine inklusive Lehregestaltung in Ihren Lehralltag mitnehmen können.
Bearbeitungszeit: 5 Module à 90 Minuten
Onlinekurs »Betreuung von Seminar- und Abschlussarbeiten«
Benötigte Lernzeit: bis zu 60 Arbeitseinheiten (1 Arbeitseinheit = 45 Minuten); Anrechnung als AKTive Lehre im Rahmen des Sächsischen Hochschuldidaktik Zertifikats
Außerdem finden Sie im neuen OPAL-Bereich „Für Lehrende“ des Schreibzentrums erste Videoaufzeichnungen (jeweils 90 Minuten) zu den Themen „Portfolio in der Hochschulbildung“ und „Schreiben als Lerninstrument ganzheitlich integrieren“.
Video-Serie (6 Videos) für Tutor:innen: Selbstreflexion am Ende des Semesters
Benötigte Lernzeit gesamt ca. 60 min
Best Practices für Tutorien: 2 Lehrdesigns erfahrener Tutor:innen
Benötigte Lernzeit gesamt ca. 30 min
Materialien und Tipps für die digitale Lehre
TUD-Infobereich "E-Learning an der TU Dresden" in OPAL
Infobereich in OPAL zum Einstieg in E-Learning-Szenarien und zur Demonstration von Kursbausteinen
Continuing education and networking formats in the field of process management in university administration
Link to the offers
E-Learning: Unconscious Bias (EN) Required learning time: 10 minutes
E-Learning: Bias in the Interview Process Required learning time: 15 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: Fit für die Gleichbehandlung (in German)
Offered by the Meissen Continuing Education Center (FoBiZ).
Required learning time:
- Basic module (for all employees) 60 minutes; with certificate of attendance
- Advanced module (for managers) 30 minutes; with certificate of attendance
SAP 0 Einführungskurs - E-Learning for employees of the TU Dresden
(advanced courses are offered in presence)
Required learning time: 60 - 90 minutes; with certificate
We are happy to receive your suggestions and proposals for the expansion of our program and develop further offers for you.

Programmverantwortung
NameNicole Rose
Continuing Education for Executives
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Center for Continuing Education
Center for Continuing Education
Visitor Address:
Bürogebäude Strehlener Straße 22/24, 5th floor, room 560 Strehlener Straße 22
01069 Dresden

Lydia Barth
Continuing Education for Executives and Professors
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Center for Continuing Education
Center for Continuing Education
Visitor Address:
Bürogebäude Strehlener Straße 22/24, room 560 Strehlener Straße 22
01069 Dresden
Postal Address:
Technische Universität Dresden Zentrum für Weiterbildung
01062 Dresden