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AARHUS UNIVERSITY ”A FEW KEY POINTS”

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AARHUS UNIVERSITY –STEADY GROWING

•Founded in 1928

• In 2009 co-operation agreement with:• Engineering College of Aarhus (integrating agreement)• VIA University College (framework agreement)

• In 2007 merger with:• Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences• National Environmental Research Institute• Aarhus School of Business• Danish University of Education

• In 2006 merger with:• Institute of Business and Technology in Herning

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AARHUS UNIVERSITY – STEADY GROWTH

•Founded in 1928

• In 2009 co-operation agreement with:• Engineering College of Aarhus (integrating agreement)• VIA University College (framework agreement)

• In 2007 merger with:• Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences• National Environmental Research Institute• Aarhus School of Business• Danish University of Education

• In 2006 merger with:• Institute of Business and Technology in Herning

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A COMPREHENSIVE GRADUATE UNIVERSITY

•38,000 students 60 % at graduate level

•1,700 PhD students with an objective to continuous growth

•11,000 employees

•80 bachelor programmes and 120 master programmes (50 % in English)

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AARHUS UNIVERSITY –FINANCIALLY SOUND AND STRONG

Aarhus University:• Turnover: EUR 750 million• Liquidity: EUR 160 million• Grant funds: EUR 380 million• Equity: EUR 90 million

Aarhus University Research Foundation:

• Equity: EUR 400 million• Grant budget 2010: EUR 10 million

Budget 2010 (million EUR)

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CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH

•15 Centres of Excellence supported by the Danish National Research Foundation

• Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience interdisciplinary brain research

• Centre for Membrane Pumps in Cells and Disease (PUMPKIN) interdisciplinary research based on Nobel awarded research

•Focus on interdisciplinary research

•23 % of the total research funds given to the Danish universities

•26 % of the total publications produced by the Danish universities

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RESEARCH TALENT DEVELOPMENT

•Research talent development as a core activity

•Activities organised in PhD schools

•Early recruitment of talent

• International PhD House

•Trains five times the numberof PhDs we can employourselves at Aarhus University

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INTERNATIONALISATION AT AARHUS UNIVERSITY

•1,000 courses and 65 complete degree programs in

English

•100+ agreements with universities overseas

•1,031 outgoing students

•4000 International students

(10% of the student body)

•Staff of 70 different nationalities

•Coordinated international presence

- The Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research

- Building Stronger Universities in Developing Countries

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ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

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Nobel Laureate Jens Christian Skou, Aarhus UniversityThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1997

For the world’s top universities the real challenge is not funding but competing for the most advanced human capital…

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Nurturing early-stage researchers

Award potential and not always exclusively an extensive achievement record

Provide young staff freedom to conduct independent research

Assistance from research support office in applications for competitive funding

Allocate time for training and international collaboration

Nobel Laureate Dale T. Mortensen, NWU and Aarhus University,

The Nobel Prize in Economics, 2010

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Use of financial incentives

Strategic use of the university research foundation

Grants for screening potential PhDs and post docs

Starting grants for young potential researchers

Support for the recruitment of highly accomplished scientists and foreign professors

Francis Fukuyama, Stanford and Aarhus University

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Using all talent

The majority of students are women

9 out of 10 professors are men

Continue to hire purely based on scientific merit

But when the best qualified is a woman the candidate receives an additional starting grant

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AARHUS UNIVERSITY –THE PLATFORM•AU is a modern, international university that ensures that all of its

activities and results are research-based and of the highest possible quality

•AU is characterized by a culture based on generosity and openness towards students, staff and external partners

•AU provides a framework for a positive interplay between basic research, strategic research and applied research

•AU is a cohesive institution that exploits the opportunities opened up by the mergers in the best possible way

•AU responds to society's demands by creating new knowledge, offering high-quality study programmes and increasing knowledge exchange with external partners

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ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT PROCESS –PURPOSES

•Cultivating the university’s strong research and teaching environments

•Emphasizing the university’s role as a provider of the most advanced research-based knowledge to national and international public authorities and private businesses

•Attracting the best researchers and lecturers, the most talented students and an increasing share of competitive funding, both nationally and internationally

•Promoting the Aarhus campus centered on the University Park as one of Europe’s best university campus environments

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THE BUTTERFLY PLAN ANDTHE AXIS OF KNOWLEDGE

•Taken into account in relation to infrastructure since December 2000

• Integrated part of the physical extension• Integrated part of the laboratories renewal

Aarhus University expanding:•Lille Barnow•Aarhus University Hospital• IT-city of Katrinebjerg

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AARHUS UNIVERSITY –AMONG THE BEST IN THE WORLD

• 23 % of the total research funds given to the Danish universities• 26 % of the total publications produced by the Danish universities• 10,000 publications on research and knowledge dissemination

(respectively 80/20 %)

• More than 38,000 students (6,750 new in 2009)• Just under 1,700 PhD students• 80 bachelor programmes and 120 master programmes• 4,000 modules and courses

• More than 10,000 employees

• Aarhus University among the 100 best universities in the world:• Shanghai (2009): no. 97 in the world no. 31 in Europe• CWTS, Leiden Ranking List, Holland (2008): no. 90 in the world no. 33 in Europe• Times Higher Education QS (2008): no. 63 in the world no. 20 in Europe

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AARHUS UNIVERSITY –FINANCIALLY SOUND AND STRONG• Aarhus University:

• Turnover: EUR 750 million

• Liquidity: EUR 160 million

• Grant funds: EUR 380 million

• Equity: EUR 90 million

• Aarhus University Research Foundation:

• Equity: EUR 400 million

• Grant budget 2010: EUR 10 million

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Research Foundation’sProperty Company Ltd.

Auriga Industries Ltd.

Østjysk Innovation Ltd., INCUBA Ltd., etc.

INCUBA Science Park Ltd.

Aarhus Faculty of Arts

Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences

Aarhus Faculty of Science and Technology

Faculty of Health Sciences

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A. Danish public sources B. Danish private sources C. EU D. Other foreign sources

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INCREASED FOCUS ON THE UNIVERSITIES’ BUSINESS CO-OPERATION

• The University Act• The development contracts

• The Globalization Strategy• The performance-based distribution of basic funds

• The Government’s Growth Forum: ”Denmark Growing”• The Government’s business aimed innovation strategy

• Universities as a driving force for growth and innovation in relation to the business sector

• The strategy from the Danish Council for Technology and Innovation• Strengthened commercialization of research results

• Regional and municipal business strategies• The universities as an engine of growth in relation to the business sector in regions and

municipalities

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Aarhus University Hospital

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Research Foundation’s Property Company Ltd.

Aarhus UniversityResearch

Foundation Innovation anddevelopment settings:INCUBA Science Park Ltd.Navitas Park (setting up) Agro Business Park Ltd.Alexandra Institute Ltd.Innovatorium Herning Ltd.Venture companies

Technology transfer:Patents, licences, spin-outsTechnology networksCommercialization

Entrepreneurship andknowledge transfer:Aarhus Entrepreneurship CentreBusiness Liaison Office, AU OutReachStudent Growth House AarhusCareer centre, project zone

Museums, publishers,

Danish University Extension

Research-basedpublic sector consultancy

www.viden.au.dk

Auriga Industries Ltd.

Consultancy and knowledge dissemination and exchange

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AARHUS UNIVERSITY –TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

• 85 inventions reported in 2008• 13 patents and licences sold in 2008

• More than 2,000 business co-operations in 2008• Collaborative projects worth more than EUR 40 million

• Establishment of University Technology Network with Aalborg University and University of Southern Denmark

• Development of new projects in relation to innovative clusters

• New strategy for Technology Transfer Office at Aarhus University

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