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6 | Abbreviations and definitions
ABBREVIATIONS
AND DEFINITIONS
TECH Technical Faculty of IT and Design .
One of five faculties at Aalborg University, with four departments: Computer Science,
Electronic Systems, Architecture, Design and Media Technology and Planning .
PLAN The Department of Planning .
Department within the Technical Faculty of IT and Design at Aalborg University .
CBG Centre for Blue Governance .
Research group in the Department of Planning .
DCEA The Danish Centre for Environmental Assessment .
Research group in the Department of Planning .
LAND GEO-LAND-PLAN . Geoinformatics, Land Management and Urban Planning .
Research group in the Department of Planning .
PBL Problem-Based Learning in Engineering Education .
Research group in the Department of Planning .
SDT Sustainable Design and Transition .
Research group in the Department of Planning .
SEP Sustainable Energy Planning .
Research group in the Department of Planning .
SIP Sustainability, Innovation and Policy .
Research group in the Department of Planning .
TAPAR Techno-Anthropology & Participation .
Research group in the Department of Planning .
FTE Staff full-time equivalent (FTE) is the total calculation of annual full-time academic staff on
the payroll of the Department of Planning, and includes six types of position: 1 – professor, 2 –
associate professor, 3 – assistant professor, 4 – postdoc, 5 – PhD, and 6 – other research staff,
including research assistants .
Student full-time equivalent (FTE) is used for measuring activity on full-time programmes .
One student FTE is defined as study activity corresponding to the workload of one academic
year, and is equivalent to 60 ECTS points . Students who pass no exams and therefore earn no
ECTS points (for instance due to inactivity) produce no FTEs .
PURE Publication and Research .
The research management system by Elsevier which is used by Aalborg University . The
system links up with Scopus and SciVal for bibliometric analysis .