Today, I am going to VejleFjord together with 35 dedicated lectures, researchers and consultants from UCL. Hopefully, we will learn a lot and provide each other with new inspiration and perspectives. I will try to blog during the seminar to point out some of the contributions and perspectives.
UCL's new R&D-director presented his visions for our work in the next years. First, he emphasized the fact that there will be fewer resources and we therefore have to focus our work with R&D.
Secondly, he highlighted the need to consolidate and we therefore have to strengthen our focus on research and especially the effects of research. One of the important challenges is to make a strong profile and provide a clear description of our repertoire in relation to applied research.
Finally, he underscored that we still have to work with quality in applied research in our kind of institution. However, we have to act as "society-helpers" which means that we can never act in an exclusive way such as a traditional research university and private consultants can.
Birgit Heimann Hansen presented an analysis of how students participate in R&D-activities. Then, Torben, Lisbeth and Bente told us about an analysis of how we work with municipalities - and a new web-site is created where we can get an overview.
Now, the Operation-Move is on the stage!
We worked for more than two hours with Operation-Move. It was my impression that many of the participants found it interesting and engaging. After that we had a wonderful dinner and a nice chat in the bar.
Today, we will start the program with evaluation of yesterdays activities and discuss our assumptions and experience related to empowering of the citizens. I look forward to a new day with my inspiring colleagues from University College Lillebaelt.
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