• Forum for discussing work-life balance based on your questions, topics, and practical examples
• Learning with and from peers
• Discovering new ways of acting
• Networking with colleagues in similar roles

The peer exchange focuses on the balance between work and other areas of life within your teams, as well as on your own work-life balance challenges. 

Each stage of life is marked by different priorities, whether they involve family obligations and caregiving, health, volunteer work or leisure time, as well as third mission, mobility stays or leave of absence for research and teaching purposes.

As an academic leader and manager, you often find yourself at the intersection of your employees’ wishes and needs and the requirements of institutional and academic life. As a role model, your behavior shapes and influences the working culture at the University of Vienna. 

In a collegial exchange among academic leaders, topics can be raised and discussed based on your interests and needs.

• Peer exchange facilitated by an external moderator
• No lecture, no training
• Self-reflection combined with dialogue-based formats
• Action learning approach
• Integration into leadership practice
• Building a community of practice
• Confidential setting
• Working language: English or German, depending on the participants

This new peer format marks the launch of a community of practice. If you are interested, you can stay in touch with the group. There will be one meeting per semester.

There is a separate peer format for leaders from general staff.