12. Other obligations
Business course
Industrial PhD candidates must complete DASTI’s business course, which is approved as an integral part of the combined PhD programme. The business course comprises 7.5 of the approx. 30 ECTS points required for a Danish PhD education. Candidates will be invited to take the course during the first or second year of their education. Further information on the business course is available at www.industrialphd.dk.
Duty to disclose all material facts
As recipients of subsidy, the company and university must uphold their duty to disclose all material facts to DASTI. DASTI must be informed as soon as possible in case of changes in the basis for payment of subsidy. Among other things, this includes:
- supervisor changes,
- leave,
- major disruptions or delays, or
- significant project changes.
It is not possible to objectively define what significant project changes are. However, as a main rule these are changes of a magnitude which make the project not immediately recognisable as the one originally approved.
The project can continue only if and when DASTI, possibly after consulting the Programme Committee, approves the changes.
If the duty to disclose all material facts is not upheld, DASTI has the option to cancel subsidy and require repayment of any paid out subsidies.
Academic reporting
As of April 2011 academic reporting to DASTI is no longer required. The Industrial PhD candidate’s achievement of the PhD degree will document that the project has fulfilled the academic requirements of a PhD education.
Knowledge dissemination requirement
All Danish PhD programmes require students to gain experience in disseminating knowledge which, to the extent possible, is directly related to their PhD project, cf. the Danish PhD Executive Order part 3, § 7. The knowledge dissemination can consist of articles, presentations, teaching and other ways of exchanging knowledge at the company, the university or elsewhere. The company, Industrial PhD candidate and university agree on the extent, type and period of knowledge dissemination. The business course report produced as part of the business course accounts for 120 hours of dissemination.
The company and university must ensure that the candidate’s dissemination proceeds at a minimum as described in the application. If dissemination activities are not carried out, DASTI can require repayment of subsidies to the university.
