UNI-SET UNIVERSITIES SURVEY
PART 1: UNIVERSITY PROFILE
Note: This file contains the questions of Part 1 of the UNI-SET Universities Survey conducted by the European
University Association (EUA). It is meant to be used as a supporting document, for example to facilitate the data
collection process within individual universities.
You can access the complete survey under http://universities.uni-set.eu. Please note that only submissions
through the online tool can be accepted. The deadline to submit your response is 30 June 2015. For any
questions regarding the survey or the project, please do not hesitate to contact the project team at uniset@eua.be.
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RESPONDENT CONTACT
Please enter your country *
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What is the official name of your university in English? *
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What is the official name of your university in the local language?
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Contact details
Please complete the contact information for the person responsible for
the survey at your institution and, if possible, please provide an alternate
contact.
Gender (main contact):
Choose
Female
First name (main contact):
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Last name (main contact):
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Position (main contact):
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Address (main contact):
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Phone (main contact):
Number
Alternative phone number (main contact)::
Number
Email (main contact):
Email
Gender (alternate contact):
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Female
First name (alternate contact):
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Last name (alternate contact):
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Position (alternate contact):
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Address (alternate contact):
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Phone (alternate contact):
Number
Alternative phone number (alternate contact)::
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one:
Male
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one:
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Email (alternate contact):
Email
Do you want to be informed about upcoming UNI-SET activities? *
Choose one: Yes / No
(By choosing yes you agree to receive updates about UNI-SET by email)
ADDRESS
What is the address of your institution?
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Please note that this address will be used to locate your university on the
interactive maps to be created. *
(Please enter in the form of: Country, City, Street, Number)
UNIVERSITY SIZE
What is the total number of staff employed by the university and the
total number of students (all cycles) enrolled at the university?
Please provide figures corresponding to the academic year 2013-2014.
For staff, please use the number of staff in Full Time Equivalent (FTE). For
students, please indicate the number of students, head count, enrolled
at your institution.
Academic, research and teaching staff (Full Time Equivalent)
Number
Administrative and technical staff (Full Time Equivalent)
Number
Bachelor students (head count)
Number
Master students (head count)
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Doctoral candidates (head count)
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Other students (head count)
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NETWORK MEMBERSHIP
Is your institution a member of any of the following university networks Choose as appropriate:
or other research networks working in energy-related research and □ EERA, European Energy
Research Alliance
education fields?
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ESEIA,
European
Sustainable
Energy
Innovation Alliance
KIC InnoEnergy
ClimateKIC
CESAER, Conference of
European Schools for
Advanced Engineering
Education and Research
LERU,
League
of
European
Research
Universities
CLUSTER, Consortium
Linking Universities of
Science and Technology
for
Education
and
Research
ECIU,
European
Consortium
of
Innovative Universities
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Is your university active in any other networks not mentioned above?
UNICA, Network of
Universities from the
Capitals of Europe
EIT Raw Materials
EIT ICT Labs
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BUDGET
This section contains questions about the university budget. EUA will not
disclose any of this information. It will only be used for aggregated
analyses. Please provide approximate data for the academic year 20132014.
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year, or the budgetary year at your institution differs from the
academic year, please enter the timeframe to which the data relates in
the text entry field on the right.
What is the approximate annual budget for research at your institution Number input
in million Euro?
Funding sources
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If possible, please indicate your approximate energy-related research
budget derived from the following sources in million Euro. Please take
into account only budget allocated to specific energy-related research
activities or projects, not expenses for personnel covered by the general
budget of your institution.
University funds allocated to energy research activities
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National/regional public funding:
Number input
European public funding (Horizon 2020, Structural Funds, etc.):
Number input
Business/enterprise/industry funding (national):
Number input
Private non-profit (national):
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Non-EU international funding (public/private):
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Other sources:
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How do you expect your energy-related research budget to develop Choose one:
within the next five years?
o Increase significantly
o Increase somewhat
o No change expected
o Decrease somewhat
o Decrease significantly
o Don’t know
In your opinion, what will be the most important funding sources for
energy research in the next five years (2016-2020)?
Choose as appropriate
and rank:
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Please choose from the possible funding sources and rank them
according to their expected importance (top = highest expected □
importance; bottom = lowest expected importance)
National/regional public
funding
European public funding
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Comment
Business/enterprise and
industry
funding
(national)
Private
non-profit
(national)
Non-EU international
funding (public/private)
Don’t know
Other
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Are there any aspects that you wish to highlight or clarify or is there
additional information that you deem important? Please leave your
comment here:
ENERGY FOCUS
Is there any specific energy-related initiative at your university that you
wish to highlight, such as an energy research or education initiative,
energy institute or renewable energy centre? Please, indicate in
particular activities or initiatives combining research and innovation with
educational programmes, with an interdisciplinary approach to
challenges in the energy field.
Name or title of the initiative or activity:
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Website (if available):
URL
Please enter a brief description of the initiative or activity:
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How relevant do you consider the broad field of energy research and Choose one:
education for strategic decisions at your university?
o Very important
o Quite important
o Neither important nor
unimportant
o Mostly unimportant
o Not important at all
o Don’t know
UNI-SET will organise a series of ‘clustering events’ for European Text input
universities active in energy research and education during 2016 and
2017, also based on the outcomes of this survey. From your university’s
perspective, which specific aspects or challenges relating to energy
research and education would you wish to address in these events?
Please provide your input in the field to the right.
END OF PART 1
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