.. _participation-tum:

Active participation in the academic environment of TUM
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Participation in teaching, like giving tutorials for Bachelor or Master students or supervising a practical course in physics or chemistry
- at a level adequate for scientific qualification -
is an indispensable element of your doctorate.

Sufficient involvement in the TUM School of Natural Sciences's academic environment is generally obtained
by participating in teaching activities and registering those
within our :ref:`Teaching Duties System <teaching-duty-system>` hosted at the `DSSNAT server <https://app.srv.nat.tum.de/lufv/>`_.

.. important::

   For all Ph.D. students, including :ref:`external <funding>` Ph.D. students, there is a **minimum requirement of 2000 teaching points** over your Ph.D.

   This corresponds to the former **minimum requirement of 2 exercise modules (tutorials, Übungen) of 2 weekly hours (SWS), each over one semester**.
   The point system was introduced to balance different teaching tasks to this requirement of a total of 4 SWS,
   as in our experience, it is not possible to fairly balance the workload among Ph.D. students based on SWS alone.
   For example, practicals have a different workload than exercises, and corrections yield no SWS at all.

Generally, a minimum of 50% of the teaching points must be core teaching activities
like tutorials (Übungen) or practical courses, i.e., teaching in the presence of students.

:ref:`Internal Ph.D. students <funding>` **have a teaching load related to the funding**:
a 100% full-time contract corresponds to 2000 teaching points per semester,
a 50% contract to 1000 points per semester,
and a 67% contract to 1340 points per semester, etc.

Please find further information about registering your teaching in the section
:ref:`teaching-duty-system`,
where you will also find a :ref:`teaching-jobs`.