The TUM Global Visiting Professor Program offers the opportunity to recruit excellent professors from international partner universities for temporary teaching and research collaborations, thus further promoting the internationalization of TUM. Applications for the program can be submitted at any time.
Eligibility requirements
- Visiting Professors (other accepted titles: "Associate Professor" or "Lecturer") must be affiliated with an international higher education institution. Exceptions may be granted on a case-by-case basis due to scientific relevance.
- The visiting professor must have found a TUM host for the duration of his or her stay. All TUM professors and all TUM Junior Fellows are eligible as TUM hosts.
- Maximum available budget: 10.000,00 € per project.
- The TUM Global Visiting Professor Program allows stays from one week to three months (can also be cumulative - more than one trip).
- Stays are possible at the earliest three months after the respective application deadline.
- Goals, impact and relevance of the research / teaching cooperation
- Added value to TUM’s research, innovation and education agenda
- Added value for TUM students and young researchers/scientists
- Interdisciplinary approach to research / teaching, if applicable
- Reputation and complementary expertise of the nominated visiting professor
- Alignment with internationalization goals of the TUM department, institute, integrative research center, etc.
- Sustainability of proposed activities (intended next steps; e.g. joint publications; joint proposal for third party funding; joint application for a TUM-IAS Fellowship; exchange of students and early career scientists)
- TUM Sustainable Futures Strategy 2030
Successful nominations will be selected by the TUM Board of Management in consultation with a panel of members of TUM central service units.
Eligible activities
- Joint research projects (new and ongoing)
- Preparation of research proposals for third party funding
- Activities to develop/foster research collaboration
- Research-orientated teaching in English. The program is not supposed to fund any fundamental teaching courses or courses substituting already existing ones at TUM.
- Exploring the possibility of a more long-term collaboration in the framework of a TUM-IAS Fellowship (Anna Boyksen, Hans Fischer (Senior) or Rudolf Diesel Industry Fellowship)
Financial support
- Travel expenses to/from TUM (daily use of public transport in Munich cannot be reimbursed - weekly or monthly travelcard, except for justified business trips)
- Accommodation expenses (daily allowances / lunch allowances / entertainment expenses are not reimbursable)
- Honorarium for keynote speech or public lecture
- Development costs for virtual cooperation/teaching formats
Please note that we can only cover costs for the visiting professor, costs for family members cannot be covered by this program.
Application process
- New: visiting professors can apply directly, provided that the host TUM Professor or TUM Junior Fellow knows and is willing to take responsibility for the project.
- Applications for funding through the TUM Global Visiting Professor Program are to be submitted via our online application portal.
- To do this, you must register in the portal.
- After the login, please use the form Application - TUM Global Visiting Professor Program.
Required documents
- CV of visiting professor
- List of at least five publications of the candidate, most relevant to the proposed activities
- Host Statement from the TUM Professor or TUM Junior Fellow (see Downloads below)
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