Author name: Redaktion1

Fixed-term contracts have become the norm for the scientific staff at Austrian universities during the past decades. Until the latest amendment to the Universities Act in 2021 („UG Novelle 2021“) legal restrictions on the maximum duration of employment on subsequent fixed-term contracts could be circumvented by e.g. changing to another institution for a certain period […]

In order to create a solid basis for future discussions with university management and the government, we have developed a survey for the “Mittelbau” at Austrian universities. One and a half years after the amendment to the Universities Act (UG) came into force, we want to find out what the working situation of the “Mittelbau”