The Tech Faculty Management decided at the meeting on 6 May 2025 that the report category Research report, which was introduced after the Faculty Management Committee's decision on 20 March 2020, will be abolished. In the future, research can be published as a peer-reviewed article or as a popular science article in journals, but not as a report at Tech.
Requisitioned research and other projects that are in the nature of advisory and that are to be published under Tech must in future be prepared under the entire processes of the quality management system, so that the centre unit is involved from start to finish in the project.
Thus, the reports published by departments and centres under Tech will in future be covered by one of the following report categories:
Please note that all reports must be quality assured in accordance with Tech's quality management system for science-based advice.
It must be stated on the cover of the report to which category the report belongs and the report category in question must be described in or near the colophon. Apart from that, the report categories do not give rise to any new formal requirements.
At its meeting on 6 May 2025, the Faculty Management set up a working group to look at the overall reporting landscape at Tech. The working group consists of the two centre directors from DCA and DCE, a head of department from each of the centres and the vice-dean for outreach.
The report category in question can be determined by answering the following question:
Does the report provide research-based public-sector consultancy or monitoring requested by an external requisitioner?