Career path academic staff SBE

Valorisation criteria and differentiation

• Renewed SBE Career Path Academic Staff

  In 2020 SBE renewed its Career Path Academic Staff. Within this policy document The SBE the requirements for appointment or promotion to the academic job categories (Assistant professor, Associate professor and Professor) are listed. Next to that it contains the procedure for handing in promotion requests and the way they are assessed. 

• New Valorisation-criteria

  In the new Career Path the core activities of academic staff are differentiated in the main-area’s: (1) research, (2) teaching and (3) valorisation. With respect to research it is important that researchers build an increasingly clear scientific profile and make it clear how they contribute to the development of a field. The evaluation of teaching performance involves a standardized teaching dossier that is to be attached to a promotion proposal. What is new is that the criteria for the assessment of valorisation have been made more specific. Valorisation involves the use of knowledge. The transfer of knowledge takes place through communication, cooperation and commercialisation. These three themes are the guiding principles defining the criteria for the assessment of valorisation.

• Career-diversification

  In 2017 a compensation regulation was implemented within the Career Path Academic Staff that made it possible for scientists to choose for a stronger focus on either teaching or research within their academic career. In the new Career Path 2020, teaching-; research- and valorisation-profiles have been introduced (next to the all-round ‘wide’ profiles) for assistant professor, associate professor and professor. In this way the possibility for academics to distinguish themselves in one of the three main-area’s has been further developed. Scientists are expected to grow in all three main-area’s, however in the new scheme the possibility for differentiation on the bases of competence and ambition has increased. This is in line with the extensive attention there is at Dutch universities and research funding organisations for Acknowledgement and Appreciation of academic talent.

  A balanced composition of teams and departments is important. Teams benefit from the different qualities of the individual team members which can strengthen diversity within teams. Strategic personnel planning is used for a good coordination between the strategy of the department and the existing/required competencies within the team.

• Profiles and promotion forms

  Promotion to a given job category is possible if:

  1. the criteria for teaching, research and valorisation of the given job category are met, or
  2. the research criteria for the next higher job category are met, and the teaching- or valorisation criteria for the next lower job category are met, and for the third area the criteria for the given job category are met, or
  3. the research criteria for the next lower job category are met, and the teaching- or valorisation criteria for the next higher job category are met, and for the third area the criteria for the given job category are met.

   

  Below a schematic overview of the promotion scenarios is presented. The promotion proposal forms can be found by clicking on the given profile.

  If compliance is met for :	Research criteria at the level of:	Teaching criteria at the level of:	Valorisation criteria at the level of
  Appointment is possible to :
  Assistant prof. 1	Assist. prof. 1	Assist. prof. 1	Assist. prof. 1
  Assoc. prof. 2  (wide)	Assoc. prof. 2	Assoc. prof. 2	Assoc. prof. 2
  Assoc. prof. 2 (research profile)	Assoc. prof 1	Assoc. prof. 2	Assist. prof. 1
  Assoc. prof. 2 (research profile)	Assoc. prof 1	Assist. prof. 1	Assoc. prof 1
  Assoc. prof. 2 (teaching profile)	Assoc. prof 1	Assoc. prof 1	Assoc. prof 1
  Assoc. prof. 2 (Valor profile)	Assoc. prof 1	Assoc. prof 1	Assoc. prof 1
  Assoc. prof. 1 (wide)	Assoc. prof 1	Assoc. prof 1	Assoc. prof 1
  Assoc. prof. 1 (research profile) t	Full prof. 2	Assoc. prof 1	Assoc. prof 2
  Assoc. prof. 1 (research profile) v	Full prof. 2	Assoc. prof 2	Assoc. prof 1
  Assoc. prof. 1  (teaching profile)	Assoc. prof 1	Full prof. 2	Assoc. prof 1
  Assoc. prof. 1  (valor. profile)	Assoc. prof 1	Assoc. prof 1	Full prof. 2
  Full prof. 2 (wide)	Full prof. 2	Full prof. 2	Full prof. 2
  Full prof. 2 (research profile) t	Full prof. 1	Full prof. 2	Assoc. prof 1
  Full prof. 2 (research profile) v	Full prof. 1	Assoc. prof 1	Full prof. 2
  Full prof. 2 (teaching profile)	Assoc. prof 1	Full prof. 1	Full prof. 2
  Full prof. 2 (valor. profile)*	Assoc. prof 1	Full prof. 2	Full prof. 1
  Full professor 1	Full prof. 1	Full prof. 1	Full prof. 1

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