Senate Approves New Job Openings and Academic Staff Advancements

At its 22nd meeting held on November 20, 2025, the Senate of the University of Prishtina (UP) approved the opening of applications for 100 new positions, promoted academic staff across several faculties, and also decided to formalize an association with UP for pharmacist and King’s College London professor, Prof. Driton Vllasaliu.

Furthermore, the senators approved the promotion to Assistant Professor at UP's Faculty of Mechanical Engineering for Prof. Ilir Murturi from the Vienna University of Technology. This marks the first full-time, regular-contract transfer to UP under the "Brain Return" Regulation.

The opening of these positions and the continued association with UP of internationally renowned professors from the academic diaspora, based on the Regulation on Transfer, the 'Brain Gain' program, and the provisions for extraordinary academic staff recruitment needs (approved on April 30, 2025), aims to strengthen the quality of teaching and scientific research at the University of Prishtina.

The international medical professional, Prof. Driton Vllasaliu, whose transfer to UP was unanimously approved today by the senators, is currently part of the School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences at King’s College London and will work part-time at UP.

In September and October 2025, two other professors with international renown, Prof. Dukagjin Blakaj and Prof. Gëzim Visoka, were also associated with the University of Prishtina. The Senate meeting also approved the promotion of several professors and the reappointment of several assistants in the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and the Faculty of Medicine. Reappointments, new appointments, and further promotions are planned to be reviewed in the upcoming meetings.

The senators also unanimously approved the arrival of a visiting professor from the "St. Cyril and St. Methodius" University of Bulgaria to teach in the Balkanistics Study Programme of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Prishtina.

During the November session, the Senate ratified and authorized the defense of one doctoral thesis and changed the thesis mentor for another candidate in these studies, based on the recommendations of the Central Council for Doctoral Studies.