Professional and Personnel Development

As the Professional and Personnel Development (ZPE), we are the point of contact for all matters relating to professional training and development as well as health and well-being in the workplace. We support and accompany individuals and teams with a variety of offers, including workshops, seminars, coaching, team-building measures, information and exchange events as well as individual counselling.

Our services are aimed at all employees and managers from science, science management and technology & administration at TU Braunschweig.

Would you like individual counselling? Your ZPE team

News

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Next "Impulshäppchen" on 16.09.25 from 12:00-13:00 on the topic "Designing meetings in presence, hybrid and virtual" [only German] More

^{Wed. 27.08.2025}
Online information event on "Updates in the annual review and toolbox dialogue management" on 17 September 2025 from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm (participation without registration) More

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Toolbox dialogue management published, in which you will find assistance for various discussion occasions More

^{Mon. 25.08.2025}
Die BGF-Kurse & Sprachkurse WiSe 25/26 sind veröffentlicht. Anmeldestart ist Montag, 01.09.2025 um 10 Uhr [only German] More

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Overview of all Offers Toolbox Dialogue Management Lunch Format Impulshäppchen International and Intercultural Competences

Training and Development

As Professional and Personnel Development, we support your further training and development with our programmes and offers. It is particularly important to us to tailor these to your needs and challenges.

TrainingProgramme for Employees

Graduate Academy GradTUBS

Postdoc-Programme

Prof.-Programme

Overview of all Offers

Health in the Workplace

Our occupational health management (Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement BGM) offers you support to reduce stress in the workplace and strengthen health resources.

Occupational Health Management

Health and Integration Management

Health Counselling Services

Employee Survey

Detailed Information

Current Projects

In addition to our established programmes and services, we initiate projects and work as a cooperation partner in projects. In this way, we aim to address new topics, continuously develop the ZPE's programmes and thus contribute to the achievement of TU Braunschweig's strategic goals.

If you have any questions, suggestions or ideas for projects, please contact us ZPE Team

With the development of a new format on the subject of "Mobile working and alternating teleworking", Professional and Personnel Development is entering the world of e-learning. The project is being realised in cooperation with GITZ*, CISO**, Human Resources, Occupational Safety and the Staff Council.

Self-study course / E-learning-course: Mobile working and alternating teleworking in StudIP (only available in German)

Exchange and Networking

For successful cooperation, it is essential to get in touch with each other, exchange information and experiences and learn from each other. We would like to offer you opportunities and space for this in our networking and exchange formats.

In addition we provide you with a growing toolbox dialogue management, in which you will find assistance for various discussion occasions.

"Welcome Programme for Newly Appointed Professors": talking to the Executive Board, getting to know central contact persons in the staff units, administration and central institutions

"Prof. Talk": Collegial exchange between professors, junior professors and tenure-track professors on topics such as teaching or leadership

"Science and Leadership Forum": impulses and dialogue on changing leadership topics

"Ask Me Anything": junior and tenure-track professors in dialogue with established professors of their choice

All offers can be found on the page of the Prof. Programme

Guidelines on Leadership and Cooperation

These guidelines document a common understanding of leadership and cooperation and provide a binding framework for action, regardless of the area in which you work and the tasks you are involved in.

Guidelines on Leadership and Cooperation

Guidelines on Error Culture

The guidelines on error culture aim to encourage all managers and employees of the central administration to cultivate and promote an open approach to errors.

Guidelines on Error Culture

The Jour fixe of the central and decentralised administration serves the regular exchange between the central administration and the employees with administrative tasks in the institutes, faculties and central facilities. Current topics, interfaces, problems and suggestions for improvement are discussed. The aim is to improve the exchange of information and thus cooperation.
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The Grad^TUBS Graduate Academy offers all doctoral students at TU Braunschweig and the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) interdisciplinary and inter-faculty support on their path to a doctorate. Get to know others at the WelcomeDoc event or network at our events. In our newsletter we inform you about current offers
Newsletter Registration

New at TU Braunschweig and/or Looking for Contacts to Other Postdocs?
The TU Braunschweig Postdoc Network meets every two months to exchange ideas and information in a relaxed atmosphere, to take up requests for the postdoc programme and to get to know postdocs from other (specialist) areas of the TU. To register, simply send an email to postdoc-programm(at)tu-braunschweig.de.

The Quarterly Meeting for Managers in Technology and Administration is an event organised by the full-time Vice President Dietmar Smyrek, which focuses on providing information and exchanging ideas with all managers in the department - division heads, department and department heads and heads of staff units. The presence of the department's managers is mandatory.