Pursuant to the ministerial order on conferment of the titles honorary professor and honorary associate professor, and subject to the rector’s delegation of the competence to award such honorary titles, the dean may award the titles honorary professor and honorary associate professor.
These titles can be awarded to:
The title honorary professor/associate professor is awarded for a period of no more than five years. On the expiry of a period such titles can be awarded again following a new honorary award process.
These are honorary titles, and there is no remuneration. Honorary titles do not generate any academic credit and rights apart from those possessed by the person concerned at the time the titles were awarded.
Honorary professors/associate professors will normally perform the following tasks:
Guidelines for awarding the titles honorary professor and honorary associate professor at the Faculty of Arts (pdf) (October 2015, rev. November 2015)