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                BIH JOHANNA QUANDT PROFESSORS
<br>1. Preamble
<br>
<br>BIH Johanna Quandt professors hold newly established temporary W2
<br>professorships with a real tenure track that are funded by Stiftung Charit.
<br>With these professorships, the Berlin Institute of Health
<br>(BIH) and the shared research area of Charit -
<br>Universittsmedizin Berlin (Charit) and Max Delbrck Center for Molecular
<br>Medicine (MDC) are to be further developed and expanded. At the same time, the
<br>BIH Johanna Quandt Professorships pursue three structural approaches that also
<br>serve as role models beyond Berlin. Firstly, the professorships are aimed
<br>specifically at women and therefore represent a novel impulse for the
<br>promotion of equal opportunities in the life sciences during the phase of
<br>establishment in the science system, which so far has received little funding.
<br>Secondly, the professorships are provided with a binding option for permanent
<br>tenure as a lifetime professorship (real tenure track). Thirdly, the
<br>professorships are open to all topics, offering the women professors the
<br>opportunity to develop the orientation of their professorships themselves,
<br>also beyond the usual biomedical disciplines, and to have an innovative impact
<br>on the range of subjects covered by BIH.
<br>
<br>2. Funding objectives
<br>
<br>With the BIH Johanna Quandt Professors program, Stiftung Charit is
<br>establishing new professorships for BIH with funds from its Private Excellence
<br>Initiative Johanna Quandt. BIH Johanna Quandt professorships are aimed in a
<br>special way at women who have acquired their own scientific profile and
<br>initial scientific independence after completing their doctorate, and who also
<br>have international experience1.  These women scientists are to be recruited
<br>for BIH and their profiles to be further developed with a view to future
<br>scientific leadership positions. The aim is to make a targeted contribution to
<br>equal opportunities within the life sciences and university medicine in
<br>Berlin.
<br>
<br>The BIH Johanna Quandt Professors will be provided with a real tenure track.
<br>
<br>In addition, the BIH Johanna Quandt Professorships will not be advertised for
<br>a specific medical or life science discipline. The appointment will be made in
<br>a subject area chosen by the applicant herself from the entire spectrum of the
<br>life and health sciences. An innovative and interdisciplinary orientation of
<br>the professorship with the goal of an improved transition from basic research
<br>via patient-oriented research to care practice and vice versa (translation) is
<br>decisive.
<br>
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<br>1 oriented on "R3" career level in accordance with the Euoropean Commissions
<br>definition. Cf. European Commission: Towards a European Framework for Research
<br>Careers. Brssel 2011.
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<br>3. Funding volume
<br>
<br>The support of Stiftung Charit serves to establish BIH Johanna Quandt
<br>Professorships. These are new professorships with the grade W2. The
<br>appointment to the professorship is based on a joint appointment of BIH and
<br>Charit (presumably as a special professorship with reimbursement from BIH for
<br>the research work associated with the professorship)2. The appointment will be
<br>made for a once-off limited period of five years with the option of a
<br>subsequent permanent appointment as a lifetime professorship at grade W2 or W3
<br>(real tenure track). The total duration of the fixed term of five years will
<br>be determined with the first appointment on a temporary basis; a later
<br>extension of the fixed term and an associated delay in the appointment as a
<br>lifetime professorship will be ruled out.
<br>
<br>Funding ranging between1,500,000.00 and  3,150,000.00 euros (equivalent to
<br>300,000.00 to 530,000.00 euros per year plus up to a total of 500,000.00 euros
<br>in investment funds) can be provided to each BIH Johanna Quandt Professor
<br>including all costs over a period of five years. The amount applied for must
<br>correspond to the concept for the respective BIH Johanna Quandt professorship.
<br>The applicants therefore enclose a binding budget plan with their concept.
<br>Higher sums within the range of 1,500,000.00 to 3,150,000.00 euros are
<br>intended for professorships whose equipment requirements are higher, in
<br>particular in the case of a strongly clinical and/or strongly experimental
<br>orientation.
<br>
<br>Stiftung Charit supports each BIH Johanna Quandt Professor with an amount of
<br>750,000.00 to 1,000,000.00 euros for a limited period of up to five years. The
<br>grant can be used to cover salaries in grade W2 including all additional costs
<br>such as performance bonuses, pension provisions and allowances as well as to
<br>provide basic equipment for scientific personnel and material costs. Cost
<br>increases over the years cannot be claimed retrospectively from Stiftung
<br>Charit, but must be fully taken into account in advance. Stiftung Charit
<br>does not pay any administrative costs.
<br>
<br>BIH contributes additional funds to finance additional personnel and material
<br>costs as well as the provision of workplaces and infrastructure for each BIH
<br>Johanna Quandt Professor in the total amount of 750,000.00 to 2,650,000.00
<br>euros over a period of five years as well as necessary investment funds of up
<br>to 500,000 euros. The funding by Stiftung Charit requires that BIH commits to
<br>this additional funding and that the appointment costs of a BIH Johanna Quandt
<br>Professor amounting to a total of 1,500,000.00 to 3,150,000.00 euros are
<br>covered for a period of five years.
<br>
<br>Funding by Stiftung Charit also requires that the BIH Johanna Quandt
<br>professorship in question be held as a W2 or W3 lifetime professorship at the
<br>end of the five-year period of funding, provided that an evaluation by BIH,
<br>Charit and MDC to be carried out at the latest in the penultimate year of
<br>funding according to the usual standards comes to a positive conclusion. The
<br>BIH Johanna Quandt Professorship can (1.) be continued as a joint
<br>professorship of BIH and Charit (with reimbursement of costs by BIH for
<br>research services), (2.) be transferred to a joint professorship of MDC and
<br>Charit (with reimbursement of costs by MDC for research services, for example
<br>within the framework of the management of a non-university research group) or
<br>(3.) be transferred to Charit's sole budget as a university professorship,
<br>for example within the framework of a regular appointment with appropriate
<br>content or an early appointment. A clear and binding regulation as to which of
<br>these three tenure track models will be chosen and which institution will
<br>consequently budget the tenured professorship after the five-year funding
<br>period has expired, subject to a positive evaluation, is to be made in the
<br>course of the appointment negotiations; a postponement of this regulation
<br>until the evaluation is not possible. The model chosen should be based on the
<br>applicant's profile and the subject area she proposes for the respective
<br>professorship and be set out in a binding career plan for the applicant.
<br>
<br>Funding by Stiftung Charit will only be provided if both the financing of the
<br>additional equipment by BIH and a commitment of continuity on the part of
<br>Charit, MDC or BIH has been bindingly promised. The professorship will be
<br>awarded with the interdisciplinary denomination "BIH Johanna Quandt Professor
<br>of ... " and the addition of a title or field proposed by the candidate.
<br>
<br>The appointment can, for example, also be made for female clinicians on an
<br>employed basis. Remuneration is then paid in the same way as for the above
<br>salary groups.
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<br>2 Cf. Act on the establishment of the Berlin Institute of Health, April 9,
<br>2015  11
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<br>4. Application of funds
<br>
<br>For a BIH Johanna Quandt Professorship, remuneration in grade W2, including
<br>all additional costs such as performance bonuses, pension provisions and
<br>allowances as well as funds for scientific personnel and equipment (basic
<br>equipment) totaling 750,000.00 to 1,000,000.00 euros for a period of up to
<br>five years can be applied for. Further funds for scientific personnel and
<br>additional equipment as well as investments for a total period of five years
<br>will be provided by BIH. The required basic and additional equipment must be
<br>specified and justified by the applicant in the application to Stiftung
<br>Charit within the framework of a budget plan.
<br>
<br>Funding of a BIH Johanna Quandt Professorship by Stiftung Charit is performed
<br>as payment of a lump sum to BIH or Charit. BIH and Charit have a free choice
<br>of appointment. The funding decision taken by Stiftung Charit is bound to an
<br>individual, i.e. under the condition that the BIH Johanna Quandt Professorship
<br>funded is filled by the selected applicant and within the scope of funding
<br>described. BIH and Charit can waiver a call of their own - which is, for
<br>example, also common practice with the Heisenberg Professorships funded by the
<br>German Research Foundation (DFG) - and directly appoint the applicant in favor
<br>of whom Stiftung Charit has taken a funding decision or request the City
<br>State Government to approve such an appointment provided that this is in
<br>accordance with City State Higher Education Law.3
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<br>3 Cf. Berlin Higher Education Act  94 Section 2
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<br>5. Eligibility requirements
<br>
<br>BIH Johanna Quandt Professorships can be applied for by women scientists who
<br>
<br>  *   have a doctorate,
<br>  *   have worked scientifically for several years after obtaining their
<br>doctorate and, during this time, have achieved their own scientific profile
<br>and initial scientific independence (e.g. by working as a junior professor,
<br>assistant professor or associate professor or by leading a scientific or
<br>clinical research group) through their achievements in the areas of research,
<br>teaching and transfer,4 and
<br>  *   have international scientific experience, either by currently working at
<br>a scientific institution abroad or by having worked for at least 18 months at
<br>a scientific institution abroad after graduation (periods during the doctorate
<br>can be taken into account).
<br>
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<br>4 oriented on "R2" and "R3" career levels in accordance with the European
<br>Commission's definition. Cf. European Commission: Towards a European Framework
<br>for Research Careers. Brussels 2011.
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<br>6. Proposal and assessment criteria
<br>
<br>The application for a BIH Johanna Quandt Professorship essentially consists
<br>of:
<br>1.     proof of own scientific achievements and qualifications,
<br>2.     a concept for the BIH Johanna Quandt Professorship, in particular
<br>stating the content and interdisciplinary orientation as well as how this
<br>orientation contributes to the realisation of BIH's guiding idea and main
<br>areas of work from the applicant's perspective, and
<br>3.     a budget plan that sets out the financial framework within which the
<br>concept for the BIH Johanna Quandt Professorship can be implemented.
<br>
<br>The overall evaluation criteria are defined as follows:
<br>1.     performance and qualifications of the candidate in the areas of
<br>research, teaching, knowledge and technology transfer, management and
<br>leadership, and patient care, provided that the candidate is clinically active
<br>and remains clinically active under the proposed BIH Johanna Quandt
<br>Professorship,
<br>2.     expectability that the applicant will become a leading scientist in her
<br>field within the next five years,
<br>3.     the quality of the concept for the BIH Johanna Quandt Professorship,
<br>with particular regard to its innovative strength, thematic openness and
<br>timeliness within five years,
<br>4.     the potential of the designed BIH Johanna Quandt Professorship to be
<br>continued and expanded at the level of a W2 or W3 lifetime professorship after
<br>five years, and
<br>5.     financial adequacy of the budget planning.
<br>
<br>The application is made using the application
<br>portal provided by
<br>Stiftung Charit (create an account on the application portal and select the
<br>call for the Johanna Quandt Professorships).
<br>
<br>When applying, and in the case of funding being approved, the Rules of
<br>Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice of the German Research
<br>Foundation as well as the ethical principles
<br>of the European Union's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
<br>(Horizon 2020), including the European Code of Conduct for Research
<br>Integrity, are to be observed. In addition, the
<br>Stiftung Charit approval
<br>principlesapply.
<br>
<br>7. Selection procedure
<br>
<br>Stiftung Charit announces the funding call, accepts applications and
<br>subsequently conducts a science-guided selection procedure consisting of the
<br>following steps:
<br>1.     The BIH Board of Directors issues a statement on whether and to what
<br>extent the professorship proposed by the applicant fits into the existing
<br>organizational structure and general structural and profile development of
<br>BIH.
<br>2.     The Academic Advisory Council (hereinafter referred to as the Council)
<br>set up by Stiftung Charit for the Private Excellence Initiative Johanna
<br>Quandt carries out a pre-selection, arranges for written expert opinions to be
<br>obtained for the pre-selected applications and sets up a selection committee
<br>consisting of the following members:
<br>o    Chair of the BIH Board of Directors (ex officio),
<br>o    Chair of the MDC Board of Directors (ex officio),
<br>o    Dean of the Medical Faculty of Charit (ex officio),
<br>o    one scientist (ad personam) appointed by the Chair of the BIH Board of
<br>Directors,
<br>o    one scientist (ad personam) appointed by the Chair of the MDC Board of
<br>Directors,
<br>o    one scientist (ad personam) nominated by the Dean of the Medical Faculty
<br>of Charit, and
<br>o    approx. five external technical experts who cover as broad a range of
<br>subjects as possible (in each case ad personam).
<br>3.     The selection committee will draw up funding recommendations on the
<br>basis of the written expert opinions and after carrying out presentations or
<br>individual interviews with the preselected applicants.
<br>
<br>The Council accepts the funding recommendations of the selection committee and
<br>makes the funding decisions on this basis. The funding decisions are initially
<br>made subject to the proviso that the respective applicant can be successfully
<br>appointed to a corresponding temporary W2 professorship for an initial period
<br>of five years, that BIH provides the required additional funding for the first
<br>five years and that the respective W2 professorship will be maintained as a W2
<br>or W3 lifetime professorship within the framework of one of the above
<br>mentioned tenure track models after the five-year funding period has expired.
<br>
<br>Following the funding decision of Stiftung Charit, BIH and Charit are
<br>responsible for the joint appointment (e.g. by waiving the invitation to
<br>tender and the direct appointment), the contractual design and the granting of
<br>the call. In the course of the appointment negotiations, the tenure track
<br>model has to be chosen for the respective candidate and where or how the BIH
<br>Johanna Quandt Professorship will be budgeted after the five-year period must
<br>be bindingly determined. The call is to be made at the latest six months after
<br>the positive funding decision by Stiftung Charit.
<br>
<br>The funding of Stiftung Charit begins when the appointed applicant takes
<br>office. The appointment should take place at the latest nine months after the
<br>positive funding decision by Stiftung Charit.
<br>
<br>8. Deadlines / dates
<br>June 24, 2019
<br>
<br>Application deadline
<br>
<br>September 2019
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<br>Pre-selection of candidates and invitation to presentations and interviews
<br>
<br>Est. December 2019
<br>
<br>Meeting of the selection committee with presentations and interviews with
<br>pre-selected applicants in Berlin
<br>
<br>Est. January/February 2020
<br>
<br>Announcement of funding decision by Stiftung Charit
<br>
<br>Subsequently
<br>
<br>(Shortened) appointment procedure of Charit and BIH
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<br>9. Contact
<br>
<br>Dr. Andr Lottmann
<br>Head of Science Funding
<br>
<br>Stiftung Charit
<br>Karlplatz 7
<br>10117 Berlin (Germany)
<br>
<br>Telefon: +49 (0)30 450 570 - 586
<br>Telefax: +49 (0)30 450 7570 - 959
<br>E-Mail:
<br>lottmann(at)stiftung-charite.de
<br>
<br>
<br>https://www.stiftung-charite.de/en/funding/the-private-excellence-initiative-
<br>johanna-quandt/bih-johanna-quandt-professors
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