W2 Professorship:

• Completed university education
• Exceptional research skills, usually demonstrated by the quality of the candidate’s doctorate;
• Pedagogical aptitude;
• Special achievements in the application or development of scientific knowledge and methods in professional practice of a minimum of five years, which must have been completed after obtaining the university degree and of which at least three years must have been completed outside of the higher education sector; in special cases, proof of professional practice outside the higher education sector can be provided by having completed a substantial part of the professional practice of a period of at least five years in cooperation between the higher education and non-higher education sectors.

W1 Junior professorship (practice track or doctoral track):

• Completed university education
• Pedagogical aptitude;
• Additional requirements for the practical track: exceptional research skills, usually demonstrated by the quality of the candidate’s doctorate; No more than four years should have passed between the doctorate and the end of the application period. The date on the doctoral certificate is decisive.
• Additional requirements for the doctoral track: special achievements in the application or development of scientific knowledge and methods in professional practice of a minimum of five years, which must have been completed after obtaining the university degree and of which at least three years must have been completed outside of the higher education sector; in special cases, proof of professional practice outside the higher education sector can be provided by having completed a substantial part of the professional practice of a period of at least five years in cooperation between the higher education and non-higher education sectors.

Appointment to a W2 professorship takes place when the specified formal requirements are met; otherwise, an appointment to a W1 junior professorship, limited to a maximum of six years and based on a temporary public-service contract, may be possible. In the case of an appointment to a W1 junior professorship, the missing qualification (for the practice track, the professional experience in collaboration with industry, or for the doctoral track, the special aptitude for academic work, which is usually demonstrated through the quality of a doctoral dissertation) must be obtained during the W1 junior professorship. 

The regular teaching load per semester for professors (W2) at universities of applied sciences is 18 teaching hours per week in a full‑time position, and for junior professors (W1) at universities of applied sciences it is 6 to 9 teaching hours.

The position is suitable for severely disabled persons. Severely disabled applicants will be given preference if they essentially have equal qualifications, expertise and professional performance.

Deggendorf Institute of Technology is aiming to increase the proportion of women among its scientific staff. For further information valid across Bavaria visit www.werdeprofessorin.de.

All those below the age of 52 can be appointed as public servants.

For candidates holding foreign university degrees it is mandatory to submit a certificate evaluation from the Central Office for Foreign Education (Zentralstelle für ausländisches Bildungswesen, ZAB) in the course of the recruitment procedure for final evaluation of the recruitment requirements (https://zab.kmk.org/de/zeugnisbewertung).