Being a middle manager involves both taking on significant professional responsibility and guiding, supporting and leading staff. In this way, middle managers play a decisive role in shaping the atmosphere and culture of collaboration within an organisation. This results in a wide range of challenging and varied tasks for these managers. The University wishes to support its middle managers in both academic and administrative positions in carrying out these tasks and has established a leadership programme to further develop leadership and management skills. In addition to subject-specific input, the programme focuses on the further development of leadership qualities as well as on exchange with colleagues from other areas of the University.