Annex to Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities 2007

Transitional terms for sector researchers

Employees at sector research institutes whose duties are integrated into

universities will transfer to the university under the Act on Employees’ Rights in

the Event of Transfers of Undertakings. It implies that sector researchers

employed at the time of integration will, also in future, be subject to the job

structure of sector research, whereas researchers who are appointed after the date

of integration will become subject to the job structure of the universities. The

point of departure is that reappointment as well as new appointment will imply

transfer to university conditions.

In connection with the forthcoming mergers, steps must be taken to ensure that

sector research is brought into play with respect to the education of bachelors and

masters. Consequently, academic staff will over time be required to provide

teaching. Pedagogical enhancement will, therefore, become part of the assistant

professor/researcher programme.

The present sector researchers have, in general, not had the opportunity to

acquire teaching competence. Therefore, they are not immediately able to meet

the teaching competence requirements which have been stipulated for associate

professors and professors. Insufficient transitional opportunities may constitute a

career barrier to researchers who have been employed in fixed-term positions

subject to the job structure of sector research.

For these researchers, a transitional scheme will be established, which implies

that they may be promoted under the job structure of sector research.

Steps must be taken to ensure that sector research is brought into play with

respect to the education of bachelors and masters. It is therefore recommended

that sector researchers who have no teaching competence, but possess other

competencies which imply that they can contribute to education should be

offered pedagogical supplementary training.

Sector researchers with the necessary pedagogical competencies may transfer to

university conditions subject to agreement between the individual and the

university. In this connection, an assessment must be conducted of the teaching

competencies of the person in question. Transfer to university conditions requires

no job advertisement.

Transitional terms for university researchers

In connection with the forthcoming mergers, steps must be taken to ensure that

the previous sector research duties continue to be performed by researchers with

the necessary competencies.

University researchers have, in general, not had the opportunity to acquire the

same experience of providing research-based Public Sector Consultancy as

researchers in the sector research area. Therefore, it is not immediately possible

to employ them in positions that imply the performance of such duties.

University researchers who have no experience of performing traditional sector

research duties may be offered supplementary training enabling them to acquire

the competencies that are a prerequisite for performing guidance and public

authority tasks.

In future, the enhancement of competencies with a view to performing duties

relating to guidance and Public Sector Consultancy will become part of the

assistant professor/researcher programme in the areas where such duties are

performed.