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Possibilities and expectations

Your possibilities

  • You will receive keys and an access ID-card, so that you freely can enter and leave the facility
  • You can have your own spot at the department's website 
  • You can have a office working place at your disposal (possibilities for this vary between departments depending on available space)
  • You can use the department's facilities on equal footing with the rest of the staff; however, use of NERI's vehicles is only possible with a prior written agreement
  • You will have access to NERI's intranet and at the same time access to the internet
  • You can borrow or download books and articles from NERI's library
  • You will have the possibility to participate in department meetings and seminars (possibilities for this vary between departments)
  • You will have the opportunity to present your project to the staff of the department and your fellow students
  • You will be part of an integrated professional environment where teamwork is encouraged
  • As part of the supervision you will be guided in writing your scientific manuscripts

Our expectations of you

  • If you have a working place at the department, we expect you to have your daily presence here (unless you are e.g. doing field work)
  • You use the department's facilities on your own responsibility
  • You clean up after your self everywhere you go about; it is especially important to uphold proper laboratory disciplin
  • You will have to know and live up to NERI's safety rules
  • When you leave the building outside normal working hours you have to make sure that lights, computers, kitchen appliances, photocopy-machines and the like are turned off and the building locked
  • You are expected to participate in professional activities (talks, seminars, etc.)
  • You are expected to participate in department or group meetings (varies between departments)
  • You are expected to give a short presentation of your project at the beginning of your master's period at a seminar and a more extensive one at the end of the period
  • Data collected in connection with the master's thesis is the property of NERI, but it is of course completely at your disposal
  • You are obliged to store your data electronically and available to everyone at the department
  • We recommend you to write your master's thesis in English and in a format of one or several scientific articles
  • You and your supervisors make agreements on authorship of scientific manuscripts
  • Master's theses are to be delivered in print as well as electronically to the department
  • If you do not succeed in publishing your master's thesis in the form of a scientific article or a report 2 years after the date of you obtaining your degree, then the right of initiative of the publication will be bestowed upon NERI, but you will of course be offered co-authorship
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Revised 2012.02.07