Prices
Particle Engineering Core Facility - Prices
The prices are calculated according to the TDI-model (national model for calculating total costs in research projects in Norway) and are subject to annually change (without notice).
All prices are without Value Added Tax (VAT). VAT will be charged to all services where NTNU do not have the ownership of the results (Commissioned projects).
* Some Companies might have frame agreement with NTNU with different prices.
Equipment user training: New users of the equipment need to participate in equipment training. The price for this is 2 hours equipment rental and 2 hours services (engineer).
Cost assessments for project applications should be done in collaboration with the project manager, project economist and core facility.
Contact the head engineer for more information about prices.
Co-authorship
If technical personnel and / or scientific personnel from the Particle Engineering Core Facility contribute with scientific knowledge to solve scientific questions, they should be co-authors according to the Vacouver Recommendations for co-autorship: "ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals".
Use of instruments and assisted use of instruments in well-known methods and performed by technical staff, is not enough to require co-authorship.
Acknowledgement
The Particle Engineering Core Facility should always be mentioned in the acknowledgements when data acquired at a core facility is submitted for publishing. Please use the following sentences: " The "XXX work/service" was provided by the Particle Engineering Core Facility, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).”