Staff
Participate in Europe-wide career opportunities tailored to your needs
Opportunities
Learn, travel and work across the YUFE Alliance, and enhance your career chances. Whether you are an academic or administrative staff member, you can create your own YUFE Career Track.
Opportunities
Based on the YUFE Recruitment Policy and the YUFE Staff Development Policy, the alliance is fully committed to enhance your individual career path with unique opportunities, be it mobility, training or your step on to the next career level. We place a strong emphasis on diversity and inclusivity.
What opportunities will be available to me shortly?
Opportunities
Experience professional (virtual) mobility
A short or long-term (virtual) training, visit or secondment at any of the YUFE institutions and partners to expand your horizons, further develop your expertise and learn new skills.
Find new professional opportunities
A local and international job and recruitment service for both permanent positions and shorter assignments and secondments will be available. Want to broaden your horizon and move permanently or temporarily to another country? This is your chance!
Ready for more knowledge?
Join the annual YUFE Academy to share and exchange knowledge and best practices and to get inspiration for your research work. The first YUFE Academy will take place in 2020. Sign up for more information.
Opportunities
What other opportunities will be offered to me in the long run?
Career development
Get access to exclusive on-the-job trainings and professional mentorship possibilities.
Become a fellow
Faculty members of YUFE institutions can become YUFE Fellows, meaning adjunct faculty, at another YUFE partner institution. Immerse yourself and become a colleague at another YUFE university. Become true YUFE faculty!
Mobility & Training
Mobility & Training within YUFE is an essential part of the Staff Journey, for both academic and non-academic staff. It opens up the whole YUFE European campus to any staff member, regardless of their current position and experience level. Through intense staff interaction, our Alliance stimulates collaboration and mutual learning among the universities and their local/national ecosystems. Short staff visits and long-term affiliations will be instrumental in developing the integration that is needed to one day achieve the vision of one YUFE European University with ten branches across Europe.
YUFE Staff Programme
The YUFE Staff Programme offers mobility and training opportunities for staff members of all universities within the YUFE Alliance.
Training sessions may consist of teaching activities (for academic staff) or training activities such as job shadowing, professional development courses and specific competence-building trainings for all staff groups.
The activities should fit to individual staff development needs at all career levels and facilitate:
- building and fostering a professional and personal network within the YUFE Alliance and beyond
- improvement of transferable and practicable skills relevant for current activities and professional career development
- exchange of experience and good practice among YUFE partners
- familiarity with working in a different national context in terms of culture, rules and regulations
Types of Mobility & Training Activities
- (Virtual) teaching assignment (lecture series, mini-courses)
- (Virtual and/or blended) training offers: workshops
- (Virtual) Language Courses
- Staff Training Days/Weeks
- (Virtual) Job Shadowing/observation periods
- Research projects, combined with a training or teaching offer
OBS: For research activities as such (scientific collaboration, joint papers and book projects, drafting of joint grant applications, etc.) other funding formats are in store. Please follow the link below for further information:
YUFE Staff Programme
Financing
- Digital training offers are free of charge. In exceptional cases, small fees may be charged. Please read the programme information of the training offers for more information.
- Mobility periods can be funded by Erasmus+ Staff Mobility (or other funding possibilities at home institutions). Please contact the Project Coordinators listed below for further information on Erasmus+ funding possibilities.
Contacts for Erasmus+ Staff Mobility at YUFE Universities
YUFE Staff Programme
Explore our first YUFE Mobility & Training Offers
Language Café
YUFE Training OfferTraining description: Café International - informal round table for international researchers (English/German)
Name of the organising institution: University of Bremen
Target audience: All interested YUFE Staff
Date and Time (CEST): Wednesdays from 16:00 - 17:00, September 2020 to June 2021
Deadline for registration: Ongoing Read more: //www.uni-bremen.de/en/research-alliance/welcome-center/events
Framework for University-Community Engagement – TEFCE Learning Journey
YUFE Training OfferTraining description: With the community engagement (re)emerging as a policy priority in higher education, these four 2-hour interactive webinars offer participants an opportunity to find out first hand how a university can implement innovative policy tools for mapping, institutional self-reflection and development of community engagement.
Name of the organising institution: University of Rijeka
Target audience: non-academics (HEPROs - Higher Education Professionals)
Date and Time (CEST): 23 October 2020, 6 November 2020, 20 November 2020, 11 December 2020
Deadline for registration: 19 October 2020
Read more: //uniri.hr/en/vijesti/yufe-staff-trainingframework-for-university-community-engagement-tefce-learning-journey/
Financial and Non-Financial Methods of Valuing your Start-up
YUFE Training Offer
Training description: The training programme will look at the financial and non-financial methods of valuing a start-up. Moreover, the training will indicate methods of pre- and post-money company valuation.
Name of the organising institution: University of Cyprus
Target audience: Researchers, Administration Staff
Date and Time (CEST): 23 November 2020, 16:00 - 18:00
Deadline for registration: 23 November 2020
Read more: //www.cyec.org.cy/acceleration-program/start-up-valuation/
Flipped Classroom for Higher Education
YUFE Training Offer
Training description: This staff training approaches different aspects of implementing Flipped Classroom at your HEI in 3 modules and extra resources for further self-study. 1. What is Flipped Classroom? 2. Planning your Flipped Classroom 3. What to do in the contact meetings (face-to-face or online)? Extra materials: topics related to Flipped Classroom
Name of the organising institution: University of Eastern Finland
Target audience: All interested YUFE staff
Date and Time (CEST): 24 November / 1 + 8 December 2020, 13:00 - 15:00
Deadline for registration: 17 November 2020
Read more: //registration.contio.fi/uef/Registration/Login?id=2096-T_2096-2510/
Activate Your Personal Resources: How to stay healthy and focused in academia
YUFE Training OfferTraining description: Academia can be a tough environment to work in, especially when you are a doctoral researcher. This interactive workshop focuses on exploring techniques and strategies for staying healthy and focused in this environment.
Name of the organising institution: University of Bremen
Target audience: Early career researchers
Date and Time (CEST): 27 November 2020, 09:00 and 4 December 2020, 09:00
Deadline for registration: 12 November 2020
Read more: //www.uni-bremen.de/byrd/veranstaltungen/activate-your-personal-resources-how-to-stay-healthy-and-focused-in-academia
German Language Classes for international researchers (English/German)
YUFE Training OfferTraining description: In cooperation with the Goethe Institute, the University's Language Center (FZHB) and the U Bremen Research Alliance institutes the Welcome Center offers exclusive German courses for international researchers.
Name of the organising institution: University of Bremen
Target audience: Researchers, PhD candidates, Postdoc
Date and Time (CEST): November 2020 - March 2021, 2 hours per week
Deadline for registration: 20 October 2020
Read more: //www.uni-bremen.de/en/research-alliance/welcome-center/learning-german/current-german-courses
Education Insights: How to be more inclusive in your practice
YUFE Training OfferTraining description: This session will look at Inclusive teaching practice. We will discuss what it is, what it isn’t and then share a range of ideas for inclusive teaching in areas such as transition points, assessment and feedback, achievement and progression, as well as addressing disparity in attainment.
Name of the organising institution: University of Essex
Target audience: Academics
Date and Time (CEST): 25 November 2020, 13:00 - 14:15
Deadline for registration: 24 November 2020
Read more: To book your place email develop@essex.ac.uk providing your full name, job title, institution name and email address
Academic Teaching in English
YUFE Training OfferTraining description: This course provides you with training and practice in giving professional presentations in English. The topics of academic writing, classroom discussion, formal emails and providing feedback, intercultural competence/teaching abroad/teaching international students, structuring effective meetings and using humour the classroom will be covered.
Name of the organising institution: University of Bremen
Date and Time (CEST): 26 + 27 November 2020, 12:00
Deadline for registration: 25 November 2020
Outlook: managing a busy inbox
YUFE Training OfferTraining description: Learn how to use automatic features in Outlook; helping organise your workload and save precious time. Auto correct for your own common words and phrases; Using folders to process email; Create rules to process emails automatically; Working with tasks; and Building blocks and email templates for repetitive information
Name of the organising institution: University of Essex
Target audience: All staff
Date and Time (CEST): 26 November 2020, 12:00 - 14:00 / 7 December 2020, 13:00 - 15:00
Deadline for registration: 25 November 2020 / 4 December
Read more: To book your place email develop@essex.ac.uk providing your full name, job title, institution name and email address
Newcomers: the publishing process - dealing with peer review comments
YUFE Training OfferTraining description: We’ll go through some tips and tools which can be used to guide through the process of dealing with and responding to each comment. We’ll also go through some of the emotional aspects of dealing with peer review comments, and what to do if you think your paper has been reviewed unfairly.
Name of the organising institution: University of Essex
Target audience: Academics
Date and Time (CEST): 26 November 2020, 16:00 - 17:00
Deadline for registration: 25 November 2020
Read more: To book your place email develop@essex.ac.uk providing your full name, job title, institution name and email address
Analytic Storytelling
YUFE Training Offer
Training description: Analytic Storytelling is a storytelling method for people working with complex content. As a researcher you have to collect, analyze, and structure complex information into a coherent story. But you also have to communicate all your findings, be it in the form of a presentation, a paper, or funding application.
Name of the organising institution: University of Antwerp
Target audience: PhD students
Date and Time (CEST): 3 December 2020, 10:00 / 17 December 2020, 10:00
Deadline for registration: 3 November 2020
Read more: //www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/antwerp-doctoral-school/doctoral-study-programme/training-offer/course-offer-ads/4500ads012/
Creating a scientific poster
YUFE Training Offer
Training description: In this workshop we will show you how to build up a strong scientific poster, step by step. A poster that is clear, that is actually being read by your audience and that adds value for both you and your audience.
Name of the organising institution: University of Antwerp
Target audience: PhD students
Date and Time (CEST): 7 December 2020, 10:00
Deadline for registration: 19 November 2020
Read more: //www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/antwerp-doctoral-school/doctoral-study-programme/training-offer/course-offer-ads/4500ads014/
Excel: conditional formatting
YUFE Training Offer
Training description: Conditional formatting allows automatically applied formatting such as colours, icons, and data bars, to one or more cells, highlighting specific data in your spreadsheet. Naming cell ranges vs convert to table; Inserting spark lines; Using pre-set conditional formatting rules; Modifying pre-set rules;and Use formulas to create conditional formatting rules
Name of the organising institution: University of Essex
Target audience: All staff
Date and Time (CEST): 8 December 2020, 15:00 - 17:00
Deadline for registration: 7 December 2020
Read more: To book your place email develop@essex.ac.uk providing your full name, job title, institution name and email address
Gender Equality in Academia
YUFE Training Offer
Training description: Staff training will address different issues related to gender equality in academia and research such as disparity in access to leadership positions, principles of gender-sensitive academic communication and implicit biases leading to stereotypical behaviours and consequently resulting in underrepresentation of women in academia.
Name of the organising institution: University of Rijeka
Target audience: Non-academics (staff of different profiles: student admission officers, support services, HR officers, librarians, etc.)
Date and Time (CEST): 10 + 11 December 2020, 12:00
Deadline for registration: 7 December 2020
Read more: //uniri.hr/en/vijesti/yufe-staff-training-gender-equality-in-academia/
Grow your network with purpose
YUFE Training Offer
Training description: In this workshop, you will learn networking strategies that you can personalise to enable you to your strengths and connect with people you actually like. You will learn how you can leverage LinkedIn to maintain and expand your network with purpose. How to start conversations that build real connections.
Name of the organising institution: University of Antwerp
Target audience: Postdoctoral researchers
Date and Time (CEST): 15 December 2020, 09:00
Deadline for registration: 1 December 2020
Read more: //www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/talent-center-early-career-research/training-programme/
Box: an introduction to file storage
YUFE Training Offer
Training description: Get an overview of how Box works to securely manage, share and access your documents, images and other content from anywhere. This session will cover logging in logging in using your Essex credentials; files and folders; collaboration; Box drive; and training resources.
Name of the organising institution: University of Essex
Target audience: All staff
Date and Time (CEST): 16 December 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 / 12 January 2021, 15:30 - 16:30
Deadline for registration: 15 December 2020 / 11 January 2021
Read more: To book your place email develop@essex.ac.uk providing your full name, job title, institution name and email address
Excel: conditional formatting
YUFE Training Offer
Training description: You’ll create a PivotTable and learn how to summarise, sort and formatting data in your PivotTables. You’ll apply some conditional formatting and manipulate your PivotCharts to produce different outputs. Creating a PivotTable; Configuring a PivotTable; Pivoting a PivotTable; Sorting/filtering data; Changing the data field summary and Creating and manipulating Pivot charts.
Name of the organising institution: University of Essex
Target audience: All staff
Date and Time (CEST): 18 December 2020, 12:30 - 14:30
Deadline for registration: 17 December 2020
Read more: To book your place email develop@essex.ac.uk providing your full name, job title, institution name and email address
Assertive Communication Skills
YUFE Training Offer
Training description: Being assertive makes a difference to the way you feel about yourself and how others see you. It can improve the quality of your relationships; demonstrating you have confidence in yourself and respect for others. Through discussion and practical exercises, you’ll learn strategies that you can use in your everyday life.
Name of the organising institution: University of Essex
Target audience: All staff
Date and Time (CEST): 20 January 2021, 11:30 - 15:00
Deadline for registration: 19 January 2020
Read more: To book your place email develop@essex.ac.uk providing your full name, job title, institution name and email address
Managing and developing your career
YUFE Training Offer
Training description: f you’re keen to develop your career but not sure where to start, this workshop will give you to opportunity to discover what your strengths and skills are and where you need to develop. You will come away with your own personal development and action plan.
Name of the organising institution: University of Essex
Target audience: All staff
Date and Time (CEST): 28 January 2021, 12:00 - 17:30
Deadline for registration: 27 January 2020
Read more: To book your place email develop@essex.ac.uk providing your full name, job title, institution name and email address
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Vision and Strategy
Staff Development Policy
The main goal of staff development within the YUFE Alliance is to implement Charter and Code, to create a productive and inspiring work environment for all staff members, and to realise the vision of a European University. The Alliance strives to support and develop all staff members with regard to their knowledge, skills and talents and to empower all staff to build the YUFE university. In its Staff Development Policy, the YUFE partners identified shared views, challenges, and basic principles, both at the university and the YUFE level.
Diversity and Inclusivity Strategy
YUFE aims to become the reference model for a human-centered, open and inclusive European University that can strengthen Europe’s competitiveness and cohesion by closing the social gap. All partners commit to embrace the principles of diversity and inclusion. The YUFE Diversity and Inclusivity Strategy expresses the vision of YUFE partner institutions that is at the core of our identity. It is ambitious and challenging and requires all YUFE institutions to be open to change. The strategy will be complemented by an action plan in due course.