Save the Date: Staff meeting on 13 November
This year's meeting of all scientific and artistic staff of TU Dortmund will take place on 13 November 2024 from 1 to 2.30 pm at the IBZ on the North Campus (Emil-Figge-Str. 59) and online.
The Staff Council organises this annual meeting to inform about topics and developments relevant to scientific and artistic staff at this university. It is also important to us to find out about any questions or concerns you might have. The meeting also provides the opportunity to talk to individual Staff Council members directly.
These are the topics we would like to talk about:
1. welcome and report of the chairperson
2. report from the economic committee
3. abuse of power at TU Dortmund University
5. miscellaneous
We will send the link to the Zoom meeting in good time before the meeting.
If you have any suggestions for issues we should touch on during the session, please do not hesitate to contact us. Your participation in shaping the working conditions at TU Dortmund is important to us. By the way: Participation in the annual staff meeting is included in your regular working hours.
Anja Szypulski elected new chair of Staff Council
The Council of Academic and Artistic Staff (PRwiss) at TU Dortmund University has started the 2024 to 2028 term of office with a new chairperson: Dr. Anja Szypulski, who is a sociologist and has worked at the Department for Spacial Planning since 1998, was unanimously elected by the other 16 Staff Council members at the constituent meeting. She replaces Dr Andreas Brink, who will retire at the beginning of 2025.As one of many important challenges for the PRwiss, Ms Szypulski cites the implementation of permanent position concepts
in the university’s faculties, which the Academic Staff Council has been accompanying since 2020. The PRwiss would also continue to advocate for effective measures against abuse of power at TU Dortmund and provide advice to colleagues who are affected by such abusive behaviour such as bullying, discrimination or sexual harassment, Ms. Szypulski said.
As deputy chair during the last term of office, Ms Szypulski was involved in drawing up a service agreement for Mobile Working, which in 2023 was jointly adopted by PRwiss and the TU administration. "This was an important building block in giving all employees equal access to mobile working and at the same time making the TU more attractive as an employer," says Ms Szypulski. Now a new challenge has been created by savings plans set out by the government of North Rhine-Westphalia. According to these plans, the TU - like other universities in NRW - is to save 20 percent of its office space. “The Staff Council will make sure that that the needs and interests of employees are taken into consideration when new workplaces are being designed.”
Dr. Anja Szypulski studied sociology, modern history and education in Münster and Vienna and subsequently worked as a research assistant in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf and at the universities in Münster und Bochum.
She held a scholarship in the German Research Foundation’s Graduate School on Gender Relations and Social Change at TU Dortmund University and has been a research assistant at the Faculty of Spatial Planning since 1998 - initially in the Department of Women's Studies and Housing, then in the Department of Urban and Regional Sociology. She completed her PhD in 2004 at the Faculty of Education and Sociology.
Meeting of all TU scientific and artistic staff on 15 November 2023
As the Staff Council representing all scientific and artistic staff at Technical University Dortmund, we look forward to welcoming you in person or online to this year's staff meeting on November 15!
At this meeting, we would like to inform you about current topics and developments relevant to scientific and artistic staff. In addition, we will be happy to answer your questions and engage in conversation with you. We will announce the topics and the live stream beforehand.
We will meet on Wednesday, November 15, from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. in the large hall of the IBZ on the North Campus (Emil-Figge-Strasse 59). Afterwards you will have the opportunity to individually talk to members of the Staff Council about any specific questions you might have.
If you have any suggestions for issues we should touch on during the session, please do not hesitate to contact us. The more staff members inform us about questions and concerns they might have, the better we can represent their interests.
Please be informed that the visit of the annual staff meeting is included in your regular working hours. We look forward to meeting you.