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Department of Chemical Engineering
Annual Report 2015
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DEPARTMENT ECONOMY
The department has three main sources of income:
Regular funds from the University and coverage
of cost due to research financed by external
sources.
Strategic funding from the University
External projects.
In terms of external funds, including contributions from
the research Council and industry, the portifolia has been
fairly stable but raised some in 2015 (shown in table 2).
We were in 2015 awarded with two cetras for research
based innovation. These two large projects each over
200 million NOK in total budget will contribute largely to
our portifolio for the next 8 years. The regular funds from
the University were about 34 million NOK in 2015. These
funds are mainly used for salaries to permanent staff,
equipement, regular operations of the department and
contribution to research projects. New practice in
distributing contribution and cost from external research
blows up both the income and expence side of the
economy. The surplus in 2015 was caused by restrictions
from University to employ new or replace staff,
postponed investments in infrastructure and more
contribution from external projects than budgeted.
More details are shown in Table 1.
Accounts
2013
2014
2015
Income:
University funding and coverage of
expenses from external activities
44 742 000
45 326 000
70 333 000
Sum income
44 742 000
45 326 000
70 333 000
Expenses:
Wages
35 672 000
35 808 000
34 877 000
Investment
388 000
1 722 000
2 414 000
Operating expenses
5 363 000
4 492 000
11 104
NTNU contribution to ext. projects
623 000
2 836 000
15 197 000
Sum expenses
42 046 000
44 858 000
63 592 000
Result
2 696 000
468 000
6 741 000
Table 1. Department’s income from University and spending.