CISS 3-year PhD Programme

With a CISS PhD programme, your company obtains a range of advantages. You get access to a highly-educated specialist within the exact area within the field of embedded software systems that your company needs, and during the course of the programme, the student gets an in-depth knowledge of your everyday practices and challenges, so that his/her research can be focused on precisely your needs. 

Collaboration about a PhD programme gives you a number of advantages: 

• Over a period of three years, your company has access to a highly qualified specialist working on a thesis based on a problem concerning products and/or challenges that you experience in your company.
• The company gets the possibility of drawing upon the PhD student’s competences and, as back-up, a large network of competences at AAU in connection with improvement of the company’s development work and skill development for the company’s employees.
• The company gets access to the newest research-based knowledge within the field of embedded software systems.
• Through CISS and the attached PhD student, the company gets access to a broad national and international network, both in terms of research and product development.
• The company gets the opportunity to influence research topics in Denmark’s leading research environment within embedded software systems. Consequently, companies can be assured that the research carried out is relevant for their subject areas and the challenges they are facing.
• If the researcher’s work results in a product or rights, the company can be assured shares in it. In addition, the company can be assured monopoly within their own area of business. The knowledge with which the company contributes, and which the PhD student gets access to during the programme, is fully protected.

CISS and Aalborg University cover the main part of the expenses of a CISS PhD programme.

The company only contributes with a third of the expenses – or, in other words, around DKK 14,000 a month – which are naturally fully tax-deductible like other research expenses.