Independent assignments are assignments where you essentially organise the work yourself, and where you have the freedom to organise the task process as you see fit. Examples include seminar assignments, a semester project, a bachelor thesis or your Master’s thesis.
If you are unsure whether your assignment is covered by the guidelines for data protection in independent assignments, please contact your lecturer/supervisor.
You can write an assignment in collaboration with a company. In connection with a collaboration with a company, the company may wish to draw up a confidentiality and/or collaboration agreement (also called NDA: non-disclosure agreement). Below, you will find a number of different things to be aware of in such a situation:
SDU has a template for confidentiality agreements between companies, students and SDU. Whenever possible, you are recommended to use the template, as it takes into account the situation in which you as a student will share information you get from the company with your supervisor and will submit an assignment which will be assessed. Therefore, please suggest to the company that the SDU template is to be used.
If the SDU template is used, SDU is a party in the agreement. If the template is used, there can be no doubt as to whether you as a student may share information with your supervisor. As an employee of SDU, the supervisor is covered by the confidentiality agreement.
When SDU is a party in the agreement, the agreement must pass to SDU RIO to be approved. After the agreement has been approved by the lawyers at SDU RIO, the head of department must sign the confidentiality agreement.