1. The Departmental Forum consists of 14 members:
- 3 PhD students from different research fields
- 3 Students (1 Oecon or Soc, 1 HA, 1 Merc)
- 2 TAP
- 6 VIP – two for each of the three sections at the Department. Each VIP represents the members of the corresponding section and should not be part of the management team. The three job categories: professors, associate professors, and assistant professors must be represented in the forum. If not, the Departmental Forum may ask for one or more additional elections to be held to elect the lacking job categories.
2. Members are elected for two years.
The elections normally take place in November/December and are held in even years for the Econometrics and Business Analytics section and the Economics section, and in odd years for the Accounting and Finance section and TAP. Students and PhD students are elected as needed. Members in each category/section must be elected based on an open and transparent process within each category/section.
3. When a member is absent for a longer period of time or a job appointment finishes within the period of election, a substitute may be called in.
If no substitute has been elected, an election may be held in accordance with the same rules as those applying for the ordinary election.
4. The Departmental Forum constitutes itself after each election.
The head of department informs about the Departmental Forum’s work.
- The Departmental Forum is an advisory body and can be heard when at least half the required number of members is present. The meetings are chaired by a moderator, who is elected at the start of the meeting. If present, the Deputy Chairman is the moderator.
- Decisions in cases which have not been added as individual items to the agenda announced before the ordinary meeting may be adopted only if none of the members present object.
- Decisions in cases which have not been added as individual items to the agenda announced before the extraordinary meeting may be adopted only if all members of the Departmental Forum are present and none of the members object.
- The decisions of the Departmental Forum are taken by simple majority vote.
- The department secretariat provides secretarial support to the Departmental Forum. Minutes of each meeting are published on the Department’s homepage. The minutes must be approved by the following meeting.
Approved at the Departmental Forum’s meeting 19/5/2016.