Bavaria ups the ante on High-Tech Agenda

State promises to fill new professorships quicker and speed up campus construction

Hundreds of new professorial and research positions at Bavaria’s universities are to be filled earlier than previously planned, as part of a government push to step up academic activities. 

The 1,800 positions, which are being created as part of Bavaria’s High-Tech Agenda, are to be advertised by April 2021, the state’s government announced after a ministerial meeting on 14 September. Originally, the positions were meant to be filled between 2021 and 2023.