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Petition is addressed to: TU Wien
We propose a model (see attached, in German) for our goal of permanent employment for scientists who raise their own funding. The individual risk would be insured by TU Wien. With our model, a comparatively large number of permanent positions can be created at TU Wien for a modest expense.
Link to our career model: https://users.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~stef/Karrieremodell.pdf
Reason
Paragraph 109 UG (University Law) updated in 2021 enforces a change of institution (often abroad) or an end to the scientific career if there is no permanent employment. Several hundred scientists of all ages are affected by this at TU Wien. In particular, there are also scientists affected who successfully acquire third-party funding for themselves and PhD positions. These scientists are professionally established, have research experience, and are well-networked. Their leaving would seriously damage TU Wien and affect its attractiveness as an employer.
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on 13 Dec 2024Dear colleagues,
A small partial success - 19 third-party funded postdocs will be made permanent over the next 3 years, enforced by the financial agreement from the ministry (see screenshot), link: www.tuwien.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Leistungsvereinbarung_2025-2027_TU_Wien.pdf
Of course, this is not enough by far, and some of these positions might be just on paper as researchers who would be made permanent anyway, so we need to push more!
Today is the last day where we can submit feedback on the FuTUreFit strategy process results (see the email you received from futurefit@tuwien.ac.at on Dec 2nd with its attached report)
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on 08 Apr 2024Dear supporters of the TU Wien petition "Permanent contracts for successful researchers",
Many thanks for supporting our petition! We had a good meeting with VR Koch and Rector Schneider back in November 2023. Nevertheless, we are still waiting for the follow-up appointment, that we had agreed upon. The Rectorate told us at the time that they wanted to calculate and evaluate our proposal for a career model that would aim to provide many of us with permanent employment.
We therefore have the feeling that the importance and urgency of the 8-year fixed term limit of §109 UG, which already directly affects several of us, has not yet reached the Rectorate. However, end of April TU Wien has to deliver the proposal for the performance agreement for... further
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