Appendix a: Guidelines for budgetting for staffing and operations on courses as well as guidance in connection with these

Teaching at AU-Aarhus (Agrobiology)

Table 1: Standard rates for budgeting confrontation time in connection with teaching

Budget: max number of months for teaching at a course incl. preparation
ECTS per courseFirst completion of the courseSecond and following completion of the course
5-12 students13-24 students25-48 students
51.9 months1.3 months1.4 months1.8 months
103.6 months2.4 months2.8 months3.3 months
155.5 months3.3 months3.9 months4.7 months

The above monthly work can be increased by an additional 5% if internal censorship (from AGRO) is also used. It will be the course manager who is responsible for adding planned internal examiners to the staffing plan.

1 month = 121.67 hours

Teaching at AU-Viborg (Plante- og Fødevarevidenskab)

Teaching at AU-Viborg will be based on confrontation lections with addition of preparation time and time for transport from Seeland.

Other Costs

A separate detailed operating budget is prepared for expenses:

  • Lab experiments and consumables in teaching
  • Excursions, including transport and accommodation for the students
  • Transport - employees
  • Accommodation - employees

Especially regarding summer schools, the department follows AU's guidelines regarding “Fees and living expenses”.

Supervision of projects and thesis

Table 2: Standard rates for principal supervision of ECTS-paying student projects*

Thesis

Depending on the ECTS funding from the department can be applied for to cover TAP time and costs:

15 ECTS - business project: 5,000 DKK
30 ECTS: 10,000 DKK
45 ECTS: 15,000 DKK
60 ECTS: 30,000 DKK

Supervision time is taken from own projects. In special cases the department can fund up to 0.3 month to the supervisor, if the suervisor does not have own projects where the student's work fit in.

Bachelor projectBachelor projects are given 0.16 month for the supervisor
Open projectOpen project work is given 0.13 month for the supervisor

* In order to be awarded the above, the agreement must be sent to head.agro@au.dk. This only applies to students affiliated with the programmes Agrobiology or Plante- og Fødevarevidenskab.

Teaching time and costs for transport are posted on project no 15074 (Agrobiologi) or 45712 (Plante- og Fødevarevidenskab).

Thesis supervision time/operation cf. table 2 is posted on project no. 924472.