Promoting Young Academics
The promotion and qualification of young academics is one of our central tasks. We would like to support you on your career path and offer you a variety of further training and development prospects. New opportunities and challenges await you!

Your path to an UAS professorship: P³Dual
In the project "P³Dual – Recruitment and development of professorial staff at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam Dual", attractive career paths are being developed for young researchers and practitioners towards an UAS professorship.
Career paths for young researchers
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam would like to improve the promotion of young academics and artists and make it more systematic. In order to achieve the required triple qualification of teaching, research and professional practice for a University of Applied Sciences professorship, new UAS-specific career paths and doctoral opportunities are needed.
Funding opportunities for young researchers
Doctoral degree funding
The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam generally awards doctoral degree funding positions for up to three suitable persons per year. We explicitly encourage female junior researchers to apply. The funding (TV-L E 13, 50 % VZÄ) is initially for six months and can be extended to a maximum of 12 months. The criteria and application procedure are defined in the guidelines for the final funding of doctorates at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.
Women's Promotion Fund
The Women's Promotion Fund is an equality-promoting measure for gender-sensitive personnel development within the framework of the Female Professors Programme III at the UAS: Young female academics are to be offered incentives for publication, individual qualification, profiling and networking. The central equal opportunities commissioner will inform you about funding conditions and application modalities.
UAS Innovation Fund
The Innovation Fund of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is intended to be an incentive for innovations that contribute to the development of the UAS in teaching and studies, research and transfer, continuing education, internationalisation, service and administration. All members of the university can apply for innovative projects in these areas. The UAS provides 500,000 euros annually for this purpose. The approved funds can be spent on both personnel and material resources.
Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the State of Brandenburg
The Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the State of Brandenburg provides members of the eight Brandenburg universities with a funding opportunity for monographs and similar publication formats as well as innovative projects in this area. The funding instrument is endowed with 100,000 euros per year for the years 2021 to 2023.
Contact: vuk@open-access-brandenburg.de
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