Laurea has its own thesis agreement template, which has been developed from the common thesis agreement for universities of applied sciences. The thesis agreement must be downloaded to your own computer, signed by your partner and saved in Asha. At the same time, provide the workplace partner with the general terms and conditions of the contract as well as the workplace feedback form and, if necessary, also a material release agreement.
The contract base consists of the following parts (material can be found in the Laurea student intranet):
A good working life partnership involves a discussion about how the partnership is progressing and what it involves. Have an open discussion with your work partner about the stages of the thesis and its content. Read more information on Thesis agreement package.
The following will be agreed upon in the thesis agreement:
Background material: This means any information, ideas, patents, inventions, methods, processes, solutions, apparatus, substances or software, documents and technical reports describing them, photographs, literary and artistic works and related intellectual property rights, etc., generated outside the thesis, which the partner owns or is entitled to grant rights to use and which the thesis writer uses in the thesis. This will be recorded in the contract.
Copyright: The student owns the copyright and other intellectual property rights to the thesis, results and research material..
The partner's rights to the results of the thesis: The partner receives from the student a parallel, free, and permanent right to use the results published in the thesis in its functions.
Disclosure of material: If the student discloses research material to a partner, the research material to be disclosed is described in the Thesis Agreement. The research material to be handed over will be anonymised and will not contain any personal data. Anonymisation will be carried out in accordance with Data Management Guidelines by the Finnish Social Science Data Archive, or other equivalent appropriate procedure. Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, the research data will be provided in electronic form. The more detailed method of release of the research data will be agreed separately, taking into account data protection and security.
The student may also transfer ownership of the research material, which means that after the transfer, the collaborator owns the result (e.g. an object created as a 3D model) and the student has no rights to the result afterwards, except the right to be credited as the author of the result as required by good practice. If the result involves an invention, the rights to the result will be agreed separately.
It is always a good idea to agree on common ground rules before starting the thesis.
If the thesis is project-based or commissioned by a working life partner, a written agreement with the working life partner will be concluded at the planning stage of the thesis.
The thesis contract must be preserved for the duration of the thesis process and for at least six months after its completion.
If the thesis is part of an RDI project with external funding from Laurea, the Laurea RDI project contract guidelines are to be used.
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