Employment conditions
All unviersity staff needs to do successfully pass a health examination before you can start working in Slovenia.
The human resources office will arrange a health examination for you once your arrival date will be known. Usually the health examination is also your first working day.
In some cases the university has to check the situation on the labour market with competent authorities and receive an approval for employment of a foreigner by the Employment Services. Researchers are generally exempt from that.
The university human resources perform this on your behalf.
UP is a public and state university. All of its staff are public workers in line with Slovenian legislation and collective agreements. Therefore, UP uses type contracts for its position, which follow the legislative framework.
The human resources office will send a draft contract for your review after you send your data to them.
More information is available here.
Appointment to the title is mandatory condition in Slovenia for employment and advancement in an academic career (both pedagogical or research title).
Candidates may be appointed to the positions according to Criteria for appointment to teaching, research and associate positions at the UP, in addition to the conditions laid down by law and these Criteria, also the basic minimum standards for appointment to the relevant position.
The first step is to write an application which includes the basic minimum standards for appointment are as follows:
- suitable educational qualifications or a suitable academic or professional title,
- qualification for professional or artistic work,
- pedagogical qualifications,
- a positive assessment by the majority of the members of the expert committee assessing the candidate’s qualifications,
- active knowledge of at least one widespread foreign language.
In order to be elected to the title, the candidate’s scientific, professional, artistic and pedagogical performance indicators determined by these Criteria must be met. The candidate’s contribution to strengthening the reputation of UP is also taken into account.
Fulfilment of qualitative and quantitative indicators and minimum standards for election to the title are only a condition for consideration of the application for election to the title and do not create the right to election to the title.
Relevant documents:
- Criteria for Appointment to teaching, research and associate positions at the UP
- Criteria_for amendments for appointment at the UP 002-12-18
- Guidelines for the implementation of the criteria for appointment at the UP
- Guidelines for the implementation of criteria for appointment at the UP 002-10-18
- Guidelines for the implementation of criteria for appointment at the UP 002-25-18
- List of election fields
- Bibliography evaluation form
- Samples of applications
