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Evaluation criteria

Evaluation criteria on the tenure track are based on the principles of predictability, transparency, and comparability with international standards. Performance is evaluated through three dimensions:

1. Research and/or Artistic and Professional Work
2. Teaching
3. Activity in Scientific Community and Academic Leadership.

The aim of Aalto University is to strengthen the connection between research/ artistic and professional work with teaching. Therefore, the scientific/artistic and the teaching dimensions are closely interlinked.

Excellence in either or both of research and teaching is required to be awarded tenure. Nonetheless, it is expected that everyone on the tenure track meets high international level in other evaluation dimensions.

Aalto University follows a set of guiding principles when applying evaluation criteria in different tenure track decision-making steps. First, evaluation is conducted through a holistic evaluation in each of the three evaluation dimensions described on the following pages. Second, the candidate’s compatibility with Aalto’s strategy and values are separately evaluated at each tenure track evaluation point.