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You can apply for a W2 or W3 professorship if, in addition to your doctorate, you can demonstrate a habilitation or equivalent achievements. Habilitation-equivalent achievements can be the leadership of a junior research group or a junior professorship. The decision as to whether the achievements are recognised as equivalent to a habilitation is made in each case in an appointment procedure by the Appeals committee that reviews the application for a professorship. There are different practices depending on the subject culture. In addition to the higher education laws of the federal states, there are local standards.

For Saxony-Anhalt, the recruitment requirements are regulated in§ 35 HSG LSA. The procedure of an appointment at the OVGU is regulated by the appointment regulations [PDF, 522 kb, German only].

In addition to permanent W2 and W3 professorships, there are also temporary W2 professorships (usually for a total of six years). If it is advertised as "with tenure track", it is converted into a permanent W2 or even W3 professorship after successful tenure evaluation of the position holder.

Further information is available from the OVGU's Appointment Management and Strategic Human Resources Development. Information on the tenure track at the OVGU can be found in the OVGU regulations on the structure of tenure-track appointments at the OVGU [PDF, 140 kB, German only].