Quality Assurance in Onboarding

The Dual Career Service offers advice and support to the accompanying partners of newly appointed professors for their professional reorientation in Hannover and the surrounding region and thus enhances the chances of attracting newly appointed professors. Together with the Family Service and the Welcome Service, the Dual Career Service is part of LUH's pre-onboarding offers and is intended to represent a welcoming and appreciative culture.

To help them prepare for contract negotiations, appointees are given information on the contract negotiations schedule, the documents to be submitted and the appropriate contact at LUH.

The seal of quality is a certificate issued by the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers to ensure fair and transparent contract negotiations. The certificate confirms the quality of procedural and negotiation practice at LUH and indicates the regard in which appointees are held. It is issued for a limited period and requires the regular review and development of onboarding processes at LUH.

In order to welcome newly appointed professors, the university provides a structured programme to help them settle in. During their first 100 days at Leibniz University in particular, newly appointed professors have a central contact person from the university administration to answer any questions they may have.

The university offers events to welcome, provide information to and upskill new professors, such as welcome days, fireside chats, support, coaching, and professional and cross-disciplinary training programmes.

For tenure track professorships, a mentoring programme, the Tenure Day and at least one tenure interview with the vice president for human resources development after the first year in employment are also offered in preparation for the tenure evaluation.