Relocation

You have been invited by a researcher of the University of Mannheim to pursue your own research project at the University of Mannheim for a certain period of time and to collaborate with researchers from Mannheim. You are financing your stay at the University of Mannheim from your own funds (e.g. taking a sabbatical with ongoing remuneration, by personal savings) or by means of a research fellowship, which you may have been granted in your home country or in Germany, by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, or similar. You will not receive any remuneration from the University of Mannheim and will not be employed. As you do not enter into an employment relationship with the University of Mannheim, we are going to ask you to conclude an agreement for visiting scholars with your host chair. Both parties will thus be provided legal certainty. In addition, you will be provided access to the research infrastructure of the University of Mannheim. In case you have not yet achieved your doctorate, the status “visiting doctoral student” may apply to you. The Welcome Center will be happy to advise you on the choice of the appropriate status.

You are employed by the University of Mannheim as visiting professor for a fixed period of time (e.g. one to three months) and will give one or several courses. During your teaching assignment, you are, of course, free to advance joint research projects together with researchers from Mannheim.

You will conclude an employment contract with the University of Mannheim as academic staff member. In accordance with your job description, you do research and give courses at an institute or chair of the University of Mannheim. Provided that you already have a doctoral degree, you will be employed as post-doc. If this is not the case, the University of Mannheim, in consultation with your chair, provides you with the opportunity to take up your doctoral studies at the University of Mannheim. For this purpose, please apply for being admitted to the list of doctoral candidates of the corresponding school.

You will be officially appointed to the civil service. This means that the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg (MWK) will officially appoint you to the University of Mannheim. As a prerequisite you must have a doctoral degree. The Welcome Center will be happy to advise you of the special social security and health insurance regulations applying to civil servants.

You are pursuing your doctorate at the University of Mannheim and financing your stay by a scholarship or from your own funds. You are not employed by the University of Mannheim as academic staff member. You have thus the possibility to enroll as a doctoral student.

If you are a visiting doctoral student, you will not pursue your doctorate at the University of Mannheim, but do research work for your dissertation project at your home institution. You are a guest of a chair or institute of the University of Mannheim for a fixed period of time (e.g. one or two semesters) and will collaborate with your host at the University of Mannheim like visiting scholars do. As you are enrolled at your home institution as a doctoral student, you have the opportunity to also enroll at the University of Mannheim. As a so-called “visiting doctoral student” you will then be provided access to the university’s research infrastructure.