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JA@UTOPIA

CVB

Dean 3Dean 2Dean 1

Institute director 2 Institute director 4

Institute director 5

Chair 1

Chair 4

Chair 2

Chair 5Chair 3

Chair 6 Chair nUHD

Institute director 3

Institute director 1

TTUD

TT

UD

Current situation:

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JA@UTopiaProblems:• 2 bosses with conflicting interests (dean and institute director)• Financial evaluation is placed above doing good research• The allocation model is not transparent• Position of TT unclear • Scientific merits are not always valued, old rights/good lobbying

often works• Support organization suboptimal, centralization does not work for

everything• Enormous amounts of committees

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JA@UTopiaIdeal organization :• One chief to deal with (either dean or director) • Research institutes are important• Flat organization• TT is on equal footing with the tenured staff (like in American system) • TT is scientifically and financially independent• Overhead/management should be reduced (also for the new

education system)

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JA@UTOPIAAllocation:• Ideally salary and lab facilities are covered by university

based on scientific quality indicator• PhD students and postdoc expenses are financed by

projects (flexibility in full cost model-transparency).• Long term stability of policy to provide stability for

research groups• Declaration of hours for committee work

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JA@UTOPIACVB

Chief 3

Chief 2

Chief 1

Research Cluster 1

Research cluster 2

Research cluster 3

TT HL TT HL TT TT HL HLHL

Secretaries + Technicians + general equipment

spokesman

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JA@UTOPIAWhat can a person in a Tenure Track expect from the university ?• Commitment

Start-up packagee.g. by providing a PhD position in the TT own research line