Universities Act 2002

• All job vacancies at TU Wien must be advertised. The only exceptions are for lecturers and fixed-term positions funded by third-party fund (see § 107 (1) and (2) UG).

Career Advancement Plan for Women

• Use of gender-responsive language (see § 11)
• Involvement of the AKG in selection procedures (see § 30)
• Job interviews with female applicants following a job advertisement (see § 31)

Equal Opportunities Plan

Please also note the Equal Opportunities Plan at TU Wien, opens in new window.

Rules of conduct at TU Wien

Compliance at TU Wien, opens in new window

Gender-neutral text writing

• Language is not neutral (brochure of the AKG, german only)
• Guidelines for Gender-Inclusive Language (TU Wien, german only)
• Gender-neutral-language in the European Parliament

Guidance from the Vice Rectorate for Human Resources

• Detailed information about application processes and the recruitment of new employees can be found in the intranet section of the Application Management Service Unit.

Further assistance

• List of questions from the AKG on social and gender competence
• Considerations for recruiting talent and designing job advertisements (excerpt from Peus et al. “Personalauswahl in der Wissenschaft”, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2025) (german only)