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Together we make a difference! Universities: Uncertain and undemocratic Working conditions at Austrian universities have steadily deteriorated in recent years. 80% of academics at Austrian universities are employed on a temporary basis. At the JKU, only about one in ten academics in mid-level positions – excluding professors – has a permanent employment contract. Universities are […]

Section 109 of the Austrian Universities Act is not without reason subject to particularly strong criticism (also from NUWiss). However, the problems of the University Act go far beyond this. In regular meetings with representatives of other organisations (in particular IG:Lektor*innen, the Elise Richter Network and the Gender Studies Association Austria), we have spent two

Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023Start: 2 p.m., end approx. 5.30 p.m.Meeting point: Sigmund-Freud-Park (opposite the main building of the University of Vienna), demo route: main building of the University of Vienna > Ministry of Science > Michaelerplatz > TU Vienna +++ The demo will take place in the context of a public “Betriebsversammlung” of the

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”