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annex 4 – terms of reference
ANNEX 4 – TERMS OF REFERENCE
1. Background
Lund University is the largest university in Sweden with a total turnover
of more than SEK 5 billions (app. € 550 millions). The university was
founded 1666 in order to aid the full incorporation in the Swedish
national state of the former Danish province. Lund University has three
campuses: Lund and two smaller campuses in Helsingborg and Malmö;
nine faculties: Engineering, Science, Law, Social Sciences, Medicine,
Humanities, Theology, Economics and Management, Performing arts;
ca 80 departments; 1,600 single subject courses (300 taught in English),
undergraduate and graduate degree programmes; ca 40,000 undergraduate
and masters students (ca 25,000 full time equivalents); 2,500 PhD
students; 5,500 employees (1400 professors and lecturers, 1100 teachers
and researchers).
Lund University is a Member of LERU (League of European Research
Universities) and U21 (Universitas 21) and has exchange programs or
agreements with a large number of universities.
2. Objectives and Aims
RQ08 is the first research evaluation of Lund University as a whole. The
long-term aim of the evaluations, which will be carried out every five
years, is to strengthen the University as a research organisation of international
high standard.
The aims of RQ08 are
• to be an instrument to attain the goals of the Strategic Plan
• to identify research areas and environments where research of the
highest international standard is done, and to define conditions for
their continued development
• to identify research areas and research environments which have the
potential to
develop towards the highest level of international research, and to
determine what is necessary to ensure such development
• to identify research areas and research environments which are not
internationally or nationally competitive and which lack evident
development potential
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