Target group

The programme is primarily aimed at assistant professors and researchers on their way to qualify/apply for a position as associate professors in accordance with the ministerial order on classification of academic ranks and titles at Danish universities. 
In addition, the programme can be offered to other employees on their way to qualify for a position as associate professor, if the department finds it relevant, on the basis of the employees teaching obligations and / or career path.

Scope and preparation

Please note that participation in the course requires a considerable amount of preparation throughout the entire course. The course has a scope corresponding to 150 working hours distributed over one semester.
Before the 3 days seminar participants must expect a workload of approximately 30 hours for completing assignments and in addition to the preparation 23 hours in-class at the seminar days. The following project period including the two workshops and three collegial supervision meetings requires approximately 85 working hours. 
The final dissemination day requires approximately 7 working hours for preparation before the meeting, which consists of 5 hours.

Location

The course is partly held at an external venue in Aarhus C. and at Campus Aarhus.
All meeting days are held as day seminars - there is no overnight stay. 

Prerequisites for participation

• For participants to achieve the greatest possible learning outcome, we strongly recommend that the participant is actively involved in teaching/supervision activities during the course period, since a large part of the course activities involve course development and trials which is appropriate in the participants own practice.
• It is also recommended that the participants have some experience with teaching and /or supervision planning before participation in the University Pedagogical Programme.
• Participants must have a supervisor from their own department as supervision and feedback from the supervisor during participation in the University Pedagogical Programme is expected. The scope, form and overall content of the supervisor’s role are decided locally at the faculty or department. Please contact the relevant department or faculty for any further clarification.
• Participants must be able to set aside all the specified meeting days as well as time for preparation before each meeting day. An overview of the programme can be found on this website.
• The programme must be completed within the semester in question.
• Physical attendance on the meeting dates is mandatory. It is not possible to attend online in any of the meeting days.
• Participants must be present in at least 80% of the in-class hours (online activities and independent work do not count). If participants are absent for more than 20% (9 hours), they will not be able to pass the course, regardless of the reasons for the absence.
  Participants do not earn credits for having completed parts of the course and are thus required to retake it in its entirety.
• Participants must complete and submit ­all assignments before or at the deadlines and actively participate in the meeting days.
• A diploma will be issued after completion of the programme.

Course language

The programme is held in English for both English speaking and Danish speaking participants.
All course materials will be in English (texts, course site in Brightspace, etc.). Also, participants must upload assignments etc. in English unless otherwise agreed.

Price

The course is for AU employees only and is free of charge.

Registration

To be considered for a place in the programme, the employee must contact the management of the department for an agreement about participation in the programme. The departments and centres at AU collaborate with the faculties about nomination of participants. After finalising the internal process, the faculties register the nominated participants for the programme. 
Please note that it is not possible to be enrolled in the programme after this internal process has been finalised and we therefore recommend the employee to contact the the relevant manager well in advance.
Participants will receive a final letter of confirmation by email, when the process of approval of the nominated participants has been completed.

Before registering for the programme, participants should ensure that they have the necessary time for course participation and can set aside the specified course days and preparation time.