Goals with Regard to the Participants

• Promoting the academic careers of German and English-speaking scholars based at the cooperating universities and English-speaking scholars at Charité

• Strengthening the participants’ career motivation and enhancing their career planning

• Preparation for appointment procedures in Germany and in selected international higher education systems

• Communicating leadership and management requirements of a professorship as well as professional leadership techniques

• Broadening the participants' knowledge about current instruments of higher education management and promoting strategic competencies

• Informing about opportunities to take part in decision making processes and encouraging a readiness to engage in academic self-administration

• Extending knowledge of the research funding system and success factors for third-party fundraising

• Promoting the integration into the ProFiL network and strengthening networking within the scientific community and with other relevant areas

Goals with Regard to the Universities

• Making better use of the potential of high-achieving women scholars and increasing the share of women holding a professorship

• Improving the career conditions of women scholars and increasing the attractiveness of the cooperating universities for young women researchers

• Sensitising professors for gender-specific career barriers and supporting a cultural shift

• Supporting the internationalisation and diversity strategies of the Berlin University Alliance by implementing an English-language programme line