1. The teaching load may be reduced for performing the following functions:
1) Rector – possible complete exemption;
2) Vice-Rector – possible complete exemption;
3) Dean – reduction up to 120 hours;
4) Vice-Dean – reduction up to 60 hours;
5) Head of doctoral school – reduction up to 60 hours;
6) member of the University Council – reduction up to 60 hours;
7) Head of institute – reduction up to 60 hours;
8) Deputy head of institute – reduction up to 60 hours;
9) head of a field of study at first-cycle, second-cycle or long cycle Magister degree study programmes – reduction up to 30 hours;
10) head of a doctoral study programme – reduction up to 30 hours;
11) director of the Jagiellonian Library, director of the Jagiellonian University Museum, director of the Botanic Garden, director of the Jagiellonian University Archives, director of the Jagiellonian Language Centre, director of the JU Sports Centre, director of the Teacher Training Centre and the director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences – reduction up to 60 hours;
12) member of the Polish Accreditation Committee – possible complete or partial exemption;
13) member of the General Council for Science and Higher Education – possible complete or partial exemption;
2. Academic teacher who performs a function other than one of those specified above (at the university or outside the university), if it is of significant importance to the University and requires a significant workload, may be granted a teaching load reduction by a maximum of 60 hours depending on the financial capabilities of the organisational unit.
3. Academic teacher may be granted a reduction in the teaching load if he/she:
1) manages a project of vital importance for the University or a project where at least three PhD candidates or staff members are employed on the basis of scholarship or contract of employment – reduction of the teaching load may equal maximum up to 60 hours;
2) participates in implementation of a project, guidelines of which provide for the need or possibility of reducing the teaching load; the teaching load reduction may not exceed the amount specified in the project guidelines.
4. Academic teacher using the support programmes for researchers who apply for prestigious international projects defined in those programmes may be granted a reduction in the teaching load. The amount of teaching load may be reduced to 30 hours per year.
4a. Academic teacher who is an outstanding expert in the field/discipline which he/she represents, employed at the University, particularly in order to introduce to the JU research area an original subject, including creation of a team composed of particularly of young researchers, may be granted a reduction in the teaching load. The reduction in the teaching load should reflect the level of engagement in performance of research duties. The amount academic teacher’s teaching load may be then reduced to 60 hours per year.
4b. In particularly justified cases caused by temporary increase in research duties related to improvement of quality of research conducted in an unit (which do not result from performance of research projects financed from external sources) as well as upon preparation of an individual research plan, an academic teacher may be granted reduction of the teaching load. Reduction of the teaching load may be granted upon positive opinion by a dean or director of a non-faculty or inter-faculty unit, issued particularly on the basis of analysis of financial capacity of the managed organisational unit. Academic teacher’s teaching load may be then reduced to ½ of the prescribed teaching load per year.
5. Only a full-time employee for whom the Jagiellonian University is the primary place of employment shall be entitled to reduction in the teaching load.
6. An employee shall be entitled to reduction in the teaching load under one title only.
7. Reductions in teaching load shall be granted by the Rector of the Jagiellonian University at the request of the interested party, upon opinion provided by a dean or director of a non-faculty or inter-faculty unit. Reductions shall be granted only for one academic year.
8. An employee who was granted reduction in the teaching load, is entitled to remuneration solely for overtime hours for delivered classes which exceed the teaching load prior to the reduction.
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