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Contract Research

In the Groupe 1.3.2 Contract Research of Unit 1.3. (Administration of External Funding) you receive competent guidance for the initiation and implementation of projects in the economic area of ​​the TU Dresden (contract research and research services). Please contact us with any questions of the legal classification of your project, the contract design including the rights management, the calculation of your project and the third-party funds management. Also to conclude confidentiality statements, please contact your local representative.

In addition, subject area 1.3 supports you in general in the management of your third-party funded project. In addition to the projects of contract research and research services, this also includes grants and donations.

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Process

Please contact us in good time. We support you with the offer preparation, contract design and calculation.
Separation of the Economic and Non-Economic Activities

All university activities, which need to be regarded as "economic" need to be calculated at "full costs". Read more to find out how to judge your planned projects, who can help you distiguishing and how you can calculate these "full costs".
Contract templates

The TU Dresden, Unit 1.3 offers its researchers a number of contract templates, which have proven valuable in a large number of research projects and which depict the interest of TU Dresden and its researchers adequately.
Announce­ment of a Research Project

If you plan to acquire third-party funding for your research, it is necessary to notify Directorate 5. This action is compulsory prior to accepting the money.
FAQ

Answers to frequently asked questions during the initiation and implementation of contract research/ research services projects you can find in the FAQ -Catalog (attached to Circular D1 / 2/19.)
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Contract Research

Due to obligations from EU competition law (in connection with the  Framework for State Aid for Research and Development and Innovation) state aid for economic operations is prohibited. As a consequence the economic and non-economic university operations must be separated (separate accounting), see Circular Letter D1/4/2024 (in German only).

Put simply, grant-financed projects fall under the category of non-economic operations, whereas contract research is covered by economic operations. The Check Scheme for the Classification of Third-Party Financed Projects and Activities (in German only) helps you to classify your operations.

Economic operations are implemented by the Group Contract Research/ Research Services at Unit 1.3, i.e. they are run by the Directorate 1 right from the outset (not only for billing purposes!). Unit 5.1 Research Promotion is in charge of initiating the non-economic projects.

For all economic operations, full cost calculations need to be carried out, i.e. it is prohibited to finance them by state endowments for the university’s basic or other fundings. For the calculation of full costs, please use the Calculations sheet (in German only) of the TU Dresden.

Further information on the initiation and implementation of contract research and research services projects can be found in Circular Letter D1/2/19.