University lecturer
Universitätsdozent (Univ.-Doz.) Is a term used in Austria for certain habilitated scientists at a university .
Service and organizational law
In terms of service law, the term university lecturer exclusively refers to civil servants in the university lecturer's assignment group (§§ 154 lit. b, 170ff. BDG 1979). Since October 1, 1997 (§ 247e Paragraph 4 BDG 1979), these have had the official title of Extraordinary University Professor (Ao. Univ.-Prof., Not to be confused with the earlier identical designation according to § 31 UOG 1975).
In terms of organizational law, the term university lecturer refers to permanent university lecturers (official title extraordinary university professor , see above: university lecturer as a legal service term) as well as contract lecturers (function title extraordinary university professor ) according to § 55ff. VBG or the university employees transferred from the contract lecturer relationship (Section 122, Paragraph 2, Item 4, Paragraphs 3 to 7 University Act 2002).
Teaching license
Up until December 31, 2003, Austrian universities were awarded the "license to teach as a university lecturer" on the basis of a habilitation . The granting of this teaching license should not be confused with the civil servant status (see above: university lecturer as a legal service term); it was independent of any service or employment relationship with the university.
However, if a civil servant university assistant was granted the license to teach as a university lecturer, he acquired a legal right to be transferred from the university assistant group to the university professor group upon application at the beginning of the following semester (Section 170 (2) BDG 1979).
This confusing terminology was cleared up with effect from January 1, 2004 by the Universities Act 2002 and adapted to the terminology used in Germany and Switzerland. Since then, the qualification to teach as a private lecturer has been awarded through the habilitation (§§ 102, 103 University Act 2002).