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Guidelines of the Rectorate for the RUB Career Track Program
Incentive system for recruiting female professors
In 2008, the Rectorate established an incentive system for the appointment of female professors: Faculties which appoint a female to a W3 or W2 professorship are awarded one-fourth (¼) of the associated personnel costs from RUB central funds for four years, to be used at the respective Fakultät’s discretion. Faculties generally use this money to provide the newly appointed colleague with additional resources.
Appointment Programmes for Juniorprofessoren and Early Career Researchers
Tenure Track
Usually, a tenure-track position is advertised as a W1 Juniorprofessur, with tenure option. It is possible to be promoted to W2 or W3 professorship under certain conditions.
RUB Career Track
The RUB Career Track (RCT) is for Juniorprofessoren who have shown outstanding performance in research and teaching, and for postdocs and other Early Career Researchers who have demonstrated academic excellence and a marked aptitude for independent research and teaching. RUB has created this option in order to be able to offer outstanding young researchers attractive tenure-track opportunities to advance their careers at RUB outside the Juniorprofessor route. After successfully completing the RCT process, the candidate is appointed to an unlimited W2 professorship.