Goals with Regard to the Participants

• Promoting the academic careers of German and international scholars based at the cooperating universities and Charité
• Strengthening the participants’ career motivation and enhancing their career planning
• Preparation for appointment procedures in Germany and in selected international higher education systems
• Communicating leadership and management requirements of a professorship as well as professional leadership techniques
• Broadening the participants' knowledge about current forms of instruments of higher education management
• Informing about opportunities to take part in decision making processes and encouraging a readiness to engage in academic self-administration
• Extending knowledge of the research funding system and success factors for third-party fundraising
• Promoting the integration into the ProFiL Network and strengthening networking within the scientific community and with other relevant areas

 

Goals with Regard to the Universities

• Making better use of the potential of high-achieving female scholars and increasing the share of women holding a professorship
• Improving the career conditions of female scholars and increasing the attractiveness of the cooperating universities for young female researchers
• Sensitising for gender-specific career barriers and supporting a cultural shift
• Supporting the internationalisation and diversity strategies of the Berlin University Alliance by implementing an English programme line