The CBA was founded in 1988. In 1995, a re-organization took place to give us our present constitution. We are now a joint University entity (due to administrative rules, we cannot be denoted "Department'') between UU and SLU. The employees are employed at either university, and the PhD students are admitted at either the Faculty of Science and Technology (TN) at UU or at the Faculty of Forest Sciences (S) at SLU. CBA is associated with Dept. of Information Technology (IT) at UU regarding undergraduate education, as we are not directly responsible for undergraduate education at UU, even though we organize and teach many courses, especially those in image analysis and computer graphics. The whole of CBA is administered through UU.
All personnel (from both universities) is employed directly at CBA, except Lecturers at UU. These are employed by IT, and teach there. Their research activities, however, are carried out at CBA to a degree (usually 25%-75%), which is regulated by individual contracts.
CBA is thus an independent entity within the TN-faculty at UU and within the S-faculty at SLU, respectively. CBA is directed by a Board appointed by the Vice Chancellor of UU, with representatives from the universities (three each) and the unions (two). The Board is appointed for three years. During 2006, the board members were:
Ewert Bengtsson TN-faculty UU
Christer Kiselman TN-faculty UU
Håkan Ahlström Faculty of Medicine UU
Raili Raininko deputy UU
Gunilla Borgefors S-faculty SLU
Johan Fransson S-faculty SLU
Lennart Norell Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences SLU
Mats Nylinder deputy SLU
Anders Andersson TCO
Olle Eriksson SACO
During 2005, there was an administrative review of all centres at UU and as a result of this some minor changes of the CBA constitution were to be negotiated during 2006. The mandate for the present board ended at the end of 2006. Unfortunately, the new constitution has not yet been negotiated so the new year starts with a formally unclear situation. We do not expect that this will cause any serious problems though and hope to have the new constitution in place during spring 2007.
The executive management of CBA rests with a Director, appointed by UU, who also serves as Chairman of the Board. During 2006, Prof. Ewert Bengtsson served as Director and Dr Olle Eriksson served as deputy Director.