The program applies to all newly appointed female junior professors at the University of Tübingen from January 2020.

Please note that we finance 3 coaching sessions as part of the Athene Advanced Program. The first coaching at the beginning of the junior professorship, the second coaching after approx. two years and the third coaching in the fourth or fifth year or after the interim evaluation of the junior professorship. If the junior professors take advantage of additional coaching, they must bear the costs themselves.

Most coaching sessions take place online. You can decide this individually with the coaches.

Please send us an email. We will send you the list of coaches. You can then make an appointment for yourself. 

• Personnel recruitment and management, keyword: How do I find good personnel?
• Career development: How do I plan my next steps? How do I go about applying for a permanent professorship successfully and in good time?
• Networking: How do I network well and early on in the local, professional and international context in order to be well positioned for third-party funding and publications?
• How do I set my priorities with regard to a successful interim and final evaluation?
• Plan B: Leaving academia: What other career options are there?

Send us an email and we will be happy to send you the list of all coaches.

• Successful interim and final evaluation
• Tenure position at your own or another University

The aim of Athene Advanced, as well as Athene Grant and Athene Mentoring, is to support women on their path into academia and later to a professorship, starting with their studies through to a junior professorship.

Taking up a junior professorship is associated with high and sometimes new requirements. In addition to the expected research/publication output and acquisition of third-party funding, it is also necessary to set up your own courses, teach and supervise qualifying candidates and perform tasks in academic self-administration as well as further training (e.g. university didactics). All of this against the backdrop of very limited (professionally divergent) material resources. In addition, this biographical phase often coincides with starting a family or already having family responsibilities.