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Benefits

Your benefits at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

At Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, we place a strong emphasis on your personal and professional development. We create an environment that encourages ongoing personal development. Familiarize yourself with the many benefits FAU has to offer and shape your career with an employer who will encourage you in all aspects of your work.

Flexibility
We offer flexitime and 50 % home office
Compensation
Fair, transparent, and legally established
Retirement savings
Capital-forming benefits
Further education
Everything for your talent development
Health
A wide range of health prevention services
Family service
Balancing family and career
Sabbatical
For all adventurers and globetrotters
University sports
Wide range of activities from aikido to zumba
Equality
Everything from staff councils to DE&I
Dual Career Service
Support with dual career planning
Libraries
Free borrowing in FAU libraries
Cafeteria
Delicious and affordable food options

Advantages in public service

Employers in the public service are becoming increasingly popular. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg offers you many benefits as an employee, even in challenging times.

  • Job security
  • Equal opportunities
  • Meaningful occupations
  • The chance to contribute to science, research and university education
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Remuneration

At FAU, our employees are paid in accordance with a collective bargaining agreement or legal provisions. This provides the following advantages:

  • Transparency in remuneration
  • Regular pay increases without negotiations
  • Automatic promotion to the next level
  • Additional annual bonus
  • Asset accumulation savings scheme

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Flexibility

FAU offers comprehensive flexitime arrangements and tailored working time models to give you the flexibility you need to balance all your commitments. After consultation with the department, anyone who does not have to attend their place of work in person can spend up to half of their working hours working remotely. Employees can also take a sabbatical.

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FAU Family Service

At FAU, balancing work and family commitments is a priority. The wide range of services offered by the Family Service range from childcare to holiday and emergency care to providing family workspaces and, wherever possible, the opportunity to work from home.

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Health Management

At FAU, your health is very important to us. This is because health means much more than being free of symptoms. It is made up of a combination of physical wellbeing, mental stability, fulfilling social contacts and inner balance. With our wide range of health and advisory services, we accompany you on your journey towards more energy, balance and quality of life.

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Ongoing development

Continuous learning opens up new opportunities for our employees and creates long-term prospects. At FAU, we help our employees to fully develop their professional and personal potential. This the reason why a varied program of training and professional development courses is available to FAU employees. Whether its in person or online: At FAU, we move knowledge, in the truest sense of the word.

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Mobility

Our trainees receive a trainee ticket for discounted travel. Employees can borrow the electric cargo bike from the Green Office for transporting larger items and at selected locations, FAU employees can charge their vehicles at our charging points.

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Representative bodies

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I). At FAU, we stand up for equality, inclusion and our employees’ right to have a say. At FAU, you can rely on strong representation of your interests and actively get involved in the FAU community.

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Convenience

Our employees can enjoy discounts in our award-winning restaurants, cafeterias and bars run by Student Services Erlangen-Nürnberg as well as other exclusive shopping deals. In addition, employees can use the many vending machines selling drinks and snacks that are located in several FAU buildings. Fitted kitchens and modern work cafés can be used for breaks at any time. In addition to the use of sound-insulated booths for focused working, employees can also benefit from orthopedic and ergonomic work equipment.

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Leisure

In addition to a wide range of University sport courses at discounted rates, employees can also borrow books from FAU libraries and can even learn a new language or improve their skills in the courses offered by the Language Centre. Furthermore, FAU’s membership in a benefits portal allows employees to access a regularly changing selection of discounts and deals.

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Offers for researchers

FAU supports its researchers in every phase of their development. This support includes everything from seminars and mentoring to funding programs and advisory services.

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General information about FAU Benefits

The use of these benefits depends on the type of employment contract and its duration. Please ask your department for more information.

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Apply for a position at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and benefit from the many advantages working in public service has to offer.

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