With the signing of a new cooperation agreement, the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) and the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Cologne are reaffirming their proven collaboration: The BIBB junior professorship is to be continued. For the first time in 2014, BIBB set up a junior professorship for sociological occupational research at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne in order to bring basic academic research closer to politically relevant issues.
The appointment to the university will be made jointly and according to the so-called leave of absence model (Jülich model). The appointee is hired at BIBB and released for teaching duties at the University of Cologne.
BIBB's Director of Research, Prof. Dr Hubert Ertl, expressly emphasizes the good and successful collaboration: "We have had a very good experience with our first joint appointment. The academic exchange has enriched vocational training research at BIBB. There was, therefore, no question for all those involved that a new edition of the cooperation was necessary. By focusing the junior professorship on social science methods, we were also able to expand our range of offerings for young researchers, who will benefit from this additional opportunity to receive methodological advice".
Prof. Dr Marita Jacob, Vice Dean for Research and Young Academics of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne, is also looking forward to the cooperation: "The promotion of professorships in cooperation with renowned partners is a central concern of the WiSo Faculty and the University of Cologne. The establishment of the BIBB junior professorship with a focus on social science methods integrates excellently into our research and contributes to our methodologically oriented Bachelor's and Master's programmes".
Courses and supervision of theses will also be conducted jointly as part of the cooperation. In addition, the trilateral doctoral seminar, in which the University of Paderborn is the third partner, is to be continued.
