Main Content
Advisory Committee Meetings
Regular Advisory Committee meetings were introduced in 2022 so that university members can participate in the university’s important strategic decisions. Elected committee representatives from the Academic Senate and the University Council (deans and Executive Board) are represented at the meetings. Depending on the topic, other university members are also invited, such as principal investigators.
Thematically, the committee meetings deal with strategically current and relevant topics that can strongly influence the university in the coming years.
Dates for the next Advisory Committee meetings in 2024
The committee meeting in June 2024 will deal with the university's basic regulations. A further committee meeting will take place in November 2024..
November 2023: "From focus topics to profile areas and back again"
The committee meeting in November 2023 shifted focus back to important research topics in the departments.
June 2023: “Target Agreement Process”
Photo: Gabriele Neumann At the end of the committee meeting, representatives of various groups discussed the further Target Agreement process.In June 2023 members of the Academic Senate and the University Council met to discuss the strategic design of the Target Agreement process. In working groups, the participants discussed the special responsibility of departments and deaneries for a successful further development of University of Marburg.
They worked out how important a good infrastructure and support measures for the departments are for a successful strategic development of the University of Marburg.December 2022: “Strategy Development and Research Mapping for the University of Marburg”
What are the university’s values and vision? How does the University of Marburg compare with other universities both internally and externally? What does the common “map” of research topics at the university look like? And how might it look like in the future?
To address these questions together, the members of the Academic Senate, the University Council, and the representatives of the centers, Collaborative Research Centers (CRCs), and Research Training Groups (RTGs) met in December 2022 in the new University Library for an Advisory Committee meeting.
The discussion on vision, mission, and guiding principles showed that there were many overlaps between the views of the committee and those of the Executive Board. For example, there was agreement that the university should be more self-confident in its presentation of the strengths of its research, its cosmopolitan and diverse nature, and its direct lines of internal communication.
The transdisciplinary research topics at the University of Marburg were configured into a map and new potentials for interconnectivity were specified. How to align these newly linked research topics with the previously discussed common values and vision was also the subject of discussion.June 2022: “Potentials of the Target Agreement Meetings for the University“
The members of the Academic Senate and the University Council, as well as the heads of the departmental and staff units, met in June at the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas to discuss the Target Agreement meetings at an initial Advisory Committee meeting.
The aim was to compare the ideas of the Executive Board and the participants. In addition, questions were asked about the value and benefits of Target Agreements and discussions were held about what the working process for Target Agreements could look like.
One result was the bringing together of these individual perspectives in order to achieve a common understanding of the Target Agreements of the University of Marburg. The numerous ideas collected were incorporated into the Target Agreement meetings that then took place.
