University members

The University of Bern is committed to creating optimal teaching, learning, and research environments that foster personal growth and professional development of its members. It positions itself as an attractive, supportive, and challenging employer and striving to provide performance-enhancing and satisfactory working conditions. The University of Bern ensures that its staff possess the appropriate qualifications through a variety of means, including clear and uniform selection processes.

The qualifications and skills of professors are particularly important for the quality of the University of Bern's performance. This commitment is reflected in a structural and recruitment process that meets the usual standards of quality assurance.

At the professorial level, the University of Bern ensures that career paths for young academics are attractive. This policy pertains particularly to the SNF funding professorships/Eccellenza Professorial Fellowships and assistant professorships with and without tenure track.

The University of Bern is dedicated to creating optimal employment conditions for researchers, providing training to become internationally competitive young scientists, and develops support concepts for young scientists. The university is committed to promoting equality and facilitating the compatibility of work and family life.

The Academic Careers Department provides services and programs for early-career researchers at all levels, including doctoral, postdoctoral, lecturer, and assistant professor, as well as for faculties and departments involved in promoting early-career academics.

To ensure high-quality and efficient overall performance, cooperation and mutual understanding between science and administration are promoted.