Teaching Competence Plus certificate course

In the winter semester of 2024/2025, the next Teaching Competence Plus certificate course is going to start (15 ECTS credits), which targets university teachers from the postdoctoral phase onwards. This certificate course allows teachers to professionalise their activities. Certificates for higher education didactics give academics the opportunity to provide proof of their teaching qualification when applying for jobs on the academic labour market. Moreover, qualification opportunities in higher education didactics contribute to increasing the teaching quality and therefore the education/training of the students.

Short Facts

• Completion Certificate of participation of the University of Vienna
• Duration 2 semesters (part-time)
• Scope 15 ECTS-Credits
• Language German and English (both languages are required)
• Cost EUR 1.550,- (see below)
• Start October 2024

 Content and qualification profile

Graduates of the certificate course are qualified to professionally design and carry out research-oriented teaching. They know ways to support teaching with media and can use them with a focus on the particular target group. They have important basic knowledge of study law issues. Graduates are able to apply didactic methods in line with the learning outcomes and adapt these to the requirements of the target group. Furthermore, graduates can develop and carry out appropriate examination formats for their subject culture and for the respective learning outcomes. They are able to continuously develop teaching in the sense of a quality control loop.

Information about the modular structure of the certificate course can be found here.

Academic coordination with responsibility for modules

 Target group and requirements for participation

The offer is aimed at experienced university teachers on the staff of the University of Vienna who, to help their career development, would like to further professionalise their teaching competence and expand their repertoire of methods. The target group comprises professors, associate professors, associated professors, assistant professors, tenure track professors, senior lecturers and university assistants holding a doctoral degree.

Requirements for participation are (1) a completed doctorate, (2) several years of teaching experience at universities and (3) employment and teaching work at the University of Vienna over the period of the certificate course.

 Costs

The cost of the Teaching Competence Plus certificate course is covered by the University of Vienna and by the faculty and participants respectively. For each person there is a participant fee of EUR 1,550. EUR 1,350 will be covered by the faculties and centres. Each participant pays a co-payment of EUR 200.