KIZ_GESUND

Like most Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS), CUAS Mainz, which specializes in healthcare and social services, is facing the growing challenge of recruiting professorial staff with both specialist qualifications and a doctorate as well as professional experience outside academia. 

The increasing academization of the healthcare professions means that UAS are competing with the healthcare industry for highly qualified staff in a competitive market. This is particularly true for young academics in the nursing and therapeutic sciences, for whom there are still no suitable doctoral programs at most universities. 

While cooperative doctorates are usually the only way for UAS graduates to obtain a doctorate in these disciplines, their realization is associated with high hurdles. It is not uncommon for doctoral projects to fail due to the high demands and efforts involved. Ambitious candidates move to neighboring federal states where the right to award doctorates at UAS is already in place, or they turn their backs on academia permanently.
 

CUAS Mainz counters the difficulties of recruiting academic staff by raising the profile of CUAS in the field of health science in line with social needs. As healthcare facilities in Germany, especially hospitals and care facilities, are also affected by the shortage of qualified specialists, synergies and innovative solutions for recruiting and retaining specialists are being sought together with practice partners. Networking with the healthcare industry should ultimately lead to a ‘Career Network of Interprofessional Cooperation in Healthcare’, which will highlight CUAS Mainz as an attractive employer.

KIZ_GESUND focuses on the following goals:

1. organizing demand-oriented management of academic staff recruitment, promotion of young academics through the systematization of career paths

2. promoting academic achievements in the healthcare sector with special regard to diversity aspects

3. networking with the healthcare industry to develop innovative approaches to jointly combat the shortage of skilled labor

4. preventing career dropouts in the healthcare sector through research and employing innovative instruments and concepts

5. raising the profile of CUAS as a driving force for successful professional careers by developing innovations for practice.
 

KIZ_CAREER: A network with university partners to enable cooperative doctorates for graduates of nursing and therapy sciences. The promotion of young talent at CUAS will follow new structured paths. Making research achievements visible, especially those of female role models and people with a migration background, raising awareness of the prospect of a HAW professorship and, finally, individual career support complete this component.

KIZ_WORKSHOP: An experimental network is being created with academic and healthcare partners in order to create interprofessional and cross-sector synergies for the growing demand for personnel. The aim is to develop and test new employment models and personnel development instruments for healthcare practice and everyday clinical practice as well as for academia. The main focus here lies on improving the professional satisfaction of employees and improving family compatibility.

KIZ_RESEARCH: Priority professorships support activities in KIZ_CAREER and KIZ_WORKSHOP through research and evaluative support. The focus here lies on the concept of interprofessional collaboration. Its significance for the professional satisfaction of nursing and therapeutic specialists is to be empirically analyzed and made usable for the targeted strengthening of retention factors in the healthcare sector.