As a basis for good teaching, you will find best practice examples in the e-learning/didactics section that you can use as a guide. You can also contact the person responsible for didactics in the „ProfX “, the Department of Studies and Teaching or the contact point of the eTeach network for this purpose.
Since 2021, the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences has Teaching Advisory Board with the aim of ensuring the quality of teaching within the university and recognising and rewarding good teaching. It is made up of staff and students at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences and is chaired by the Vice President for Teaching and Learning.
About the Department for Studies & Teaching further training courses in higher education didactics are offered for all teaching staff. The department regularly provides information about exchange and further training opportunities by e-mail. Via Moodle you can register for the offered university didactic training programmes register. The annual Teaching Day also takes place under the motto „Change of perspective“. At various events, you can exchange views on teaching topics within the faculty.
You also have access to the eTeach Network Thuringia The opportunity to take part in a wide range of didactic training programmes free of charge. This includes basic modules on university and media didactics to impart basic knowledge as well as media-specific skills and adaptation to your own teaching content. You also have the opportunity to take part in courses on personal and individual competences.
https://www.hs-nordhausen.de/service/e-team/Moodle is used by the e-team in the Digital teaching knowledge pool Information, instructions and workshops for successful online teaching.
For the organisation of excursions with students and for their billing, there is a Excursion guidelines. Please also refer to the Amendment of the excursion guidelines. Students must have a Application for aid for the excursion which is connected to the Budget department is to be conducted. This is followed by a Excursion settlement. You must submit a business trip application for yourself; information on this can be found in the business and further education trips category. An excursion week takes place every winter semester. During this week, various institutions, projects, initiatives, associations etc. are visited together with students and teaching staff. These excursions are intended to provide practical information about possible internships and fields of work.
If you have any questions about reporting and applying for third-party funding, internal university programmes and calls for proposals, current calls for proposals at state, federal and EU level, funding programmes and third-party funding providers, registering and exploiting patents and participating in trade fairs, our Department for Research and Science Transfer with pleasure.
You can set up a personal lending library for the long-term use of media from our library (maximum 90 media). These books are loaned out for a period of several years and therefore do not need to be renewed.
The secondary employment of professors is governed by the Thuringian Civil Service Act and the Thuringian Ordinance on the Secondary Employment of Civil Servant Academic, Medical and Artistic Staff at State Universities (Thuringian University Secondary Employment Ordinance ThürHNVO) is regulated. In its regulations, the ThürHNVO distinguishes between ancillary activities that are subject to notification or authorisation or for which authorisation is deemed to have been granted. Authorisation is granted by the President. In individual cases, it must be checked whether the secondary employment is subject to notification or authorisation or whether authorisation is deemed to have been granted. Secondary employment is generally possible up to eight hours per week for full-time employees; for part-time employees, the amount of secondary employment may be increased accordingly. For written notification, please refer to the Process portal a corresponding form using the search function. Submit the completed form to the Human Resources department for further processing.
To ensure that universities can continue to meet their challenges as an interface between science and practice in the future, they are dependent on highly qualified staff. Against this background, the federal and state governments have launched a programme to promote the recruitment and qualification of professorial staff at universities of applied sciences („FH-Personal“). At Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, the project is called „ProfX“ and will initially run until the first quarter of 2027.
The project offers you various services. If you have any questions, please get in touch with the ProfX team.
„Dual career couples are couples in which both partners are usually highly qualified and specialised and are pursuing independent careers. If you would like to move to Nordhausen with your partner, we will support your partner as a member of the “Dual Career„ network Thuringia by providing suggestions and assistance in the orientation and application phase in the search for a suitable job.
If you are moving to Nordhausen, our Welcome Service will be happy to help you settle in and support you in finding accommodation, dealing with the authorities (Nordhausen City Council and District Office) and looking for childcare and school places. They will also be happy to answer any questions you may have about arriving in Nordhausen and at the university.
Although there is no application requirement for leave during the lecture-free period in accordance with Article 5 (3) of the Basic Law, professorial staff must notify the President of their leave. It should always be noted that, due to the purpose of the leave and the associated duty of care of the university, the leave must always be taken in the current leave year and as fully as possible. If there is any remaining leave from the previous year, this must be taken by 30 September of the following year at the latest in accordance with Section 15 (1) sentence 2 ThürUrlVO. If this is not done, it is forfeited. The corresponding holiday notice must be Process portal retrievable.
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