The call for nomination happens on the basis on an ongoing internal process at the faculties. The relevant dean decides which academic environments should prepare and submit a nomination for the AAU Distinguished Professor Programme. That same dean makes the final evaluation of the nominations and decides whether the nomination – after discussion in the executive management – can be approved. Evaluation criteria and focus points are listed below.
Purpose of the collaboration, impact and addressing of societal challenges:
- Purpose of the collaboration/project and what societal challenges the project/collaboration addresses
- Expected internationalization effect (for the research group and AAU)
- Expected impact: research-related, economic and societal
Top researcher and excellence:
- An ideal international top researcher will be an active researcher who over 10 years or longer has demonstrated international, groundbreaking research of the highest scientific quality
- For some scientific areas, the h-index will serve as a criteria for excellence, while other areas have different excellence parameters – regardless of the assessment criterion, this must be described and explained
- An assessment of the likelihood of successfully recruiting the top researcher (including a risk assessment and preferably an expression of interest)
