RWTH Aachen University is a place where the future of our industrialized world is thought out. The University is proving to be a hotspot with increasing international recognition, where innovative answers to global challenges are developed.
The Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments provided a massive boost to the targeted development of RWTH Aachen by providing € 180 million of funding in the first approval phase. The institutional strategy on which the successful Excellence Initiative application was based has, in the meantime, been expanded to form a long-term strategy to strengthen all the areas of the University and enhance their profiles. In the process, it has gained significant momentum, which can be seen, among other things, in the extensive building activities.
Visible evidence of this is the RWTH Aachen Campus being developed in close cooperation with industry and forming one of the largest research parks in Europe. Students and employees of RWTH Aachen will benefit equally from these developments and are expressly invited to get involved in shaping the individual initiatives.
The many exciting ideas already impact the whole urban region of Aachen and the entire tri-border area of Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. An innovative knowledge community is evolving closely networked with some of the world's leading research and industry partners. This brochure will give you a brief overview of RWTH Aachen as a major driving force behind this development and its prospects. At the same time, it also shows that Aachen, as a liveable and lovable city at the crossroads of three cultures, provides an ideal environment for creative exchanges.
With over 100 courses of study, the nine RWTH Aachen faculties offer you a comprehensive engineering sciences program, natural sciences, geosciences, business and economics, humanities, and medical subjects. Since winter semester 2012/2013, RWTH Aachen has converted all of its study courses to the Bachelor-Master structure. Medicine and dentistry are two exceptions. Other courses of study with the Diplom and Staatsexamen degree can only be studied in higher core semesters.
RWTH Aachen University is the largest employer in Aachen City Region. Thirteen thousand employees in research, teaching, and administration make sure that our University is one of Europe's most renowned educational institutions.
The University as a workplace is exciting and multifaceted, and its lively academic landscape continually keeps up with the times. RWTH Aachen University relies on its outstanding and diversely qualified staff to face and accomplish daily challenges. University employees can grow and expand their abilities through comprehensive staff development opportunities.
RWTH Aachen is certified as a family-friendly university. It particularly encourages the careers of women and cares for the concerns of disabled employees.
The Family Services Center supports all university members in improving the compatibility of work and family life by providing information and advice and assisting with securing places in the university-run Königshügel childcare center.
As part of its family friendliness efforts, RWTH Aachen aims at improving the compatibility of work and family by changing how work is managed. This goal should help make it easier for employees to manage their life plans as part of everyday work life. This represents an essential contribution to equal treatment and opportunities.
RWTH Aachen offers the models "Home Office "and "Situative Mobile Work. " Both types of work are explained in a brochure, which can be found in the intranet. You can also find contact persons and various forms there.
RWTH Aachen University employs both academic and non-academic staff in many varying professions. The University also trains in many vocations. The individual University institutions assume the announcement and filling of open positions, for example, Central University Administration divisions or institutions in the faculties. Current job openings are updated daily in the RWTH Aachen jobs database. You should send applications directly to the institution mentioned in the job posting.
If your application is successful, the Department of Human Resources will take over the hiring process. Salaries and wages are paid by the Landesamt für Besoldung und Versorgung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
We want you to be able to find your way straightaway, so we've put together information by the target group. This information is an essential tool for a successful start at our University and in Aachen. Our service-oriented guides help you quickly find the correct contacts in the "jungle" of services for your questions and concerns.
We're happy to welcome you as a new professor. The team of the Welcome and Dual Career Service for Professors is your central contact and helps you orient yourself in your new working and living environment. It puts together a mentoring package with you, effectively adapted to your situation.
We offer our researchers with a doctorate a creative and lively environment with attractive framework conditions. We've put together information on the following pages relevant to your academic career at RWTH and life in Aachen as a postdoc, someone pursuing professorship, or as a junior group leader.
Regardless of whether you have enrolled in a doctoral program or are coming to RWTH Aachen for a short research stay, we have collected links for services relevant to your initial time at the university and in Aachen. You can also always directly contact the respective contact person and seek advice personally. More...
Many technical and administrative employees ensure that our University is among the most renowned educational institutions in Europe. We guide new colleagues to the information and services necessary for entering the work-life at RWTH Aachen. If you are new to Aachen, there are also aids for starting in a new living environment.
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