Best Practice

The „E-learning/Teaching Methods“ section provides examples of best practice that you can use as a guide to effective teaching. You can also contact the person responsible for teaching methods within the ‘ProfX’ project, the Teaching and Learning Unit, or the eTeach network contact point for further assistance.

Teaching Advisory Board

The Teaching Advisory Board has been in place at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences since 2021, with the aim of ensuring the quality of teaching within the university and recognising and rewarding excellence in teaching. It is made up of staff and students from Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences and is chaired by the Vice-President for Studies and Teaching.

Further training

The Department of Teaching and Learning offers professional development courses in higher education pedagogy for all teaching staff. The department regularly sends out emails providing information on exchange and professional development opportunities.

You can register for the university teaching development courses on offer via Moodle. In addition, the annual Teaching Day takes place under the theme „A Change of Perspective“. A range of events will give you the opportunity to discuss teaching-related topics with your colleagues.

In addition, through the eTeach Network Thuringia, you have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of teaching development courses free of charge. These courses offer both foundational modules in higher education and media pedagogy to provide basic knowledge, as well as media-specific skills and guidance on adapting these to your own teaching content. You also have the opportunity to take part in courses on personal and individual skills.

Digital teaching knowledge pool

Via Moodle, the e-Team provides information, guides and workshops for successful online teaching through the Digital Teaching Knowledge Pool.

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) The ThürHNVO distinguishes in its provisions between secondary activities that are subject to notification or authorisation, and those for which authorisation is deemed to have been granted.

Approval is granted by the President. In each individual case, it must be determined whether the secondary employment is subject to notification or requires approval, or whether approval is deemed to have been granted in your case.

In principle, secondary employment is permitted up to eight hours per week for full-time employees; for part-time employees, the number of hours of secondary employment may be increased accordingly.

You can find the relevant form for the written notification on the BIC Process Portal by using the search function. Please 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 Service

„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.

Welcome Service

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 requirement to submit an application for leave during the lecture-free period, in accordance with the principle of academic freedom as set out in Article 5(3) of the Basic Law, academic staff must notify the President of their leave. It should always be borne in mind that, given the purpose of the leave is to allow for rest and recuperation and in view of the university’s associated duty of care, the leave must always be taken during the current holiday year and, where possible, in its entirety.

If any remaining holiday entitlement from the previous year remains, it must be taken by 30 September of the following year at the latest, in accordance with section 15(1), second sentence, of the Thuringian Holiday Regulations. If this is not done, it lapses.

The relevant holiday notification is available on the BIC process portal.