AGRO departmental council

The council is set up according to Aarhus University article of association §26 stk. 1. The standard rules can be seen here https://medarbejdere.au.dk/en/strategy/au-rules-and-regulations/standard-rules-of-procedure-for-departmental-councils/.

Objectives

The departmental council represents all staff and the department and is an advisory board for the department management with the objectives:

1. Ensuring ideas generation, quality, transparency and legitimacy in all decisions on academic issues.
2. Ensuring the department's academic and social identity and coherence.

Tasks

Through continuous and timely involvement, the head of department must ensure co-determination with respect to academic issues in a broad sense. The head of department must therefore discuss important issues within research, talent fostering, knowledge exchange and education with the departmental council.

The departmental council may make statements on all academic issues of substantial relevance to the activities of the department and has a duty to discuss academic issues presented by the dean or the head of department for its consideration.

The departmental council communicates agenda, discussion topics, recommendations, advice and opinions on staffing via minutes from the meetings and with additional dialogue / communication to staff through section meetings and other departmental meetings. The council has the right to speak directly to the Dean.

Working

The annual cycle of the departmental council should include:

• The department's strategy
• Thematic discussions of principles
• Budget
• Appointment and recruitment policy
• Professor policy
• The department's physical and social surroundings
• Co-determination and development of management structures and management types
• Study environment and well-being

The meetings will be in English.

Composition

The council consist of:

• Head of department
• Departmental member of Academic council
• 7 permanent VIP representatives (incl. Tenure track and AC-TAP) – 1 from each research section
• 2 representatives for researcher, assistant professor and postdoc – 1 from Jutland and 1 from Zealand
• 2 representatives for PhD students – 1 from Jutland and 1 from Zealand
• 2 students – 1 from BSc Agrobiology and 1 from MSc AgroEnvironmental Management and Agrobiology
• 2 technical administrative representatives – 1 from Jutland and 1 from Zealand

Function period

Permanent staff is elected for 4 years, short time staff and students for 1 year. The current period starts 01-04-2021.

Election

The election of the 7 VIP representatives takes place in the sections among the permanent staff.

Nominations for the positions "researcher, assistant professor and postdoc" PhD students and TAP can take place between 1-19 February 2021 by sending an email to Birgit S Langvad. After this, elections are carried out on the geographies.

Representatives of undergraduate and master's students are elected with help from Rasmus Pedersen.