Transition scheme

Career Paths in Science and Engineering will become effective on 1 June 2023.

Academics who started the Career Paths in Science programme before this date will be offered the one-time choice to switch to these new regulations.

Career Paths in Science and Engineering applies to all Assistant and Associate Professors who were not appointed under the conditions of earlier versions of the Career Paths in Science programme.

Assistant Professors with an education profile who were appointed before 1 June 2023 will switch automatically to Career Paths in Science and Engineering. They will be assigned the focus domain education, which means that the career path with a focus on education applies to them.

All other Assistant Professors and Associate Professors who switch to Career Paths in Science and Engineering will be assigned the focus domain research, which means that the career path with a focus on research applies to them. Any Assistant or Associate Professor who has been appointed for longer than five years at FSE can request a change of their focus domain via the procedure described in Career Path in Science and Engineering.

In case an Assistant Professor 1 switches to Career Paths in Science and Engineering, they will be automatically granted a permanent position.

In case an Associate Professor who is appointed as ‘adjunct hoogleraar’ switches to Career Paths in Science and Engineering, their status as ‘adjunct hoogleraar’ will not be affected. It should be noted that the appointment as ‘adjunct hoogleraar’ is temporary and that if the staff member chooses not to pursue promotion to Full Professor it will end after 7 years (the staff member will of course remain Associate Professor in this case and can request to keep the ius promovendi, following the procedure described in Career Paths in Science and Engineering). 

Added after June 1:

Assistant Professors with a permanent position who choose to remain appointed under the conditions of an earlier version of the Career Paths in Science programme will in case they do not get promoted to Associate Professor within the timeframe that was set at their appointment (either because they did not apply for an assessment by the BC1 or because the assessment had a negative result) automatically switch to Career Paths in Science and Engineering. Once switched, these Assistant Professors will have one opportunity to apply for promotion to Associate Professor under the conditions of Career Paths in Science and Engineering. (For Assistant Professors with a temporary appointment who remain appointed under the conditions of an earlier version of the Career Paths in Science programme, the up-or-out principle of that policy continues to apply.)

Associate Professors who choose to remain appointed under the conditions of an earlier version of the Career Paths in Science programme will in case they do not get promoted to Full Professor within the timeframe that was set at their appointment (either because they did not apply for an assessment by the BC2 or because the assessment had a negative result) automatically switch to Career Paths in Science and Engineering. Once switched, these Associate Professors will have one opportunity to apply for promotion to Full Professor under the conditions of Career Paths in Science and Engineering.