Universität Hamburg
University
Working conditions
(Junior) professors, Research staff
The aim of the BWLternzeit model is to improve the balance of family and career and at the same time to give the faculty and professors planning security.
The BWLternzeitmodell parental leave model is based on a faculty-level parental leave pool which allows the faculty to respond flexibly to parental leave taken by research employees while also offering attractive positions to parental leave replacements. When research employees (according to § 28 paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Hamburg Higher Education Act (HmbHG)) take parental leave, a position corresponding to the previous employment percentage is created in the parental leave pool. The roles of research employees who take parental leave are transferred here until a suitable research position becomes available from state funding for the previous professorship. The role of supervisor (in a management and academic sense) remains with the professorship.
Transfer to the parental leave pool frees up capacity at the level of the professorship. The replacement can therefore be offered the same employment percentage and a contract period according to the Code of Conduct “Prekäre Beschäftigungsverhältnisse in der Wissenschaft” (precarious employment relationships in research), thus avoiding staff shortages for the professorship. Applications must be submitted to make use of the BWLternzeitmodell parental leave model and a maximum of one position for each professorship can be substituted or replaced through the model.
