Freie Universität Berlin highly values university teaching as a profession and considers it essential to our reputation as a renowned academic institution. For this reason, we promote educational training for targeted teaching skills and strive for high-quality teaching among all our instructors. We research suitable indicators, metrics, and models so that we have the data we need to modernize university teaching based on factual evidence. Instructors at all qualification stages and in all status groups – including students and doctoral students – receive support acquiring university-level teaching skills and honing their individual teaching profile as part of a quality-assured, long-term professional development policy. The professionalization of university teaching covers many areas. It includes continuing education opportunities for administrative staff involved in educational support for students and instructors. It also means building administrative units equipped with solution-oriented and target group-specific skills, who can offer services and administrative support for studying and teaching at the university. Professional university teaching also demands a high-performance IT infrastructure, excellent library facilities and services, as well as buildings designed to meet the requirements of modern teaching, learning, assessment, and advising environments.