Collaboration means that a formal agreement has been made and that a contact person has been affiliated with the project.
Collaboration means that there has been a dialogue between the student(s) and the external partner, and that the external partner has made either an oral or a written response.
External collaborators can be:
- Private companies
- Public institutions (not AAU)
- Associations/societies/organizations etc.
Individuals (e.g. test persons, survey respondents etc.), who do not represent the above, do not count as external collaborators.
Using publicly available data – e.g. figures collected from company homepages - does not count as collaboration, if the company is not further involved in the project.
