In Partnership with University College of Northern Denmark

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12 School of technology and business UCN Technology and Business offers professional academic pro-grammes to students who need acces to a business career. We reach our goal through a modern teaching approach, high quality leaning facilities and commited staff and students. UCN Technology and Business’ doors are open to Danish as well international students from all over the world. We also welcome professors, managers and admin-istrative staff on exchanges.

14 SoMe #STUDYLIFEUCN Using these photographs for a teaser about UCN study life, it gives the potential celebrators a visual clue about what is going on inside UCN walls and gives them insight profiles about the students who study there. Furthermore, in presenting Denmark and Aalborg as a good place to study and live, a new hashtag can be invented.

16 Strategy 2016 Where the Mission represents a particular livelihood for UCN, so is the formulation of the Vision 2020 and UCN strategy 2015 expression of managerial priorities of strategic focus that will support a desired development of the institution in the years to come.

18 Reflective practise-basic learning Through top-level applied methods and inspired teaching UCN wants to contribute towards a better society and a better region. We acquire new

ideas and insights by learning and understanding from real life.

4 The land of light UCN stands for University College of Northern Denmark and we have a vision to provide education of distinction to enhance our reputation as a university of applied sciences which educates citizens for lives of consequence.

6 About UCN At UCN we wish to create an attractive and democratic institution and workplace. Through insight and involvement all employees and students contribute towards this goal, and the effort of each single individual is acknowledged and respected no matter field, subject or function.

8 School of education and social studies The UCN School of Education and Social Studies offers a huge network of eduation - lifelong and societywide - to students, policymakers, prac-

tioners, and other stakeholder to enhance the life changes o all learners.

10 Social Education The UCN School of Education and Social Studies offers a huge network of eduation - lifelong and societywide - to students, policymakers, prac-tioners, and other stakeholder to enhance the life changes o all learners.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


NORTHERN DENMARK

Renewable energyAalborg is a leading knowlegde centre in the fields of wind power and electric-ity generation. The region is home to a number of leading industrial companies.

FoodParts of the region also command a strong position in the food industry, with specialisation on quality foods, such as Læsø salt, and extensice industrial food production. The region also has a food processing industry with close links to the iron and steel industry, which specialises in developing food processing machinery. Food from Northern Den-mark is well known all over Denmark for its high quality and fine taste.

UCN is comprehensiveUCN University College of Northern Den-mark is a comprehensive university with connections to the surrounding society which ensures constant demand for our graduates. We are a public university which means we receive government funding for teaching and research and decvelopment. Our intake has seen over 30% increase per year in 2014 and 2015 so we are in constant growth and expan-sion.

UCN keeps a clear focus on learning experience and applied teaching, but en-couraged by the Danish Government we generate an income from other sources such as consultancy to businesses and public organizations and institutions.

UCN stands for University College of Northern Denmark and we have a vision to provide education of distinction to enhance our reputation as a university of applied sciences which educates citizens for lives of consequence.

We are constantly developing university with professional and social engagement based on constant interchange with business and society.

Over the past 40 years, the region of North-ern Denmark changed from being based on traditional industries, agricuture and fishing to relying increasingly on knowlegde-based companies.

A new cluster of compentenciesNorthern Denmark has a renowned com-petency cluster within communiations and competency clusters within enviromental technology and health technology as well as refined foods. The region is developing with an ever-increasing number of international companies and subsidiaries, international education institutions, researchers and employees, as well as tourism and experi-ence economy.

Many large Danish and foreign companies have been drawn to Northern Denmark because of the high knowlegde level within the technical, enviromental and experience fields - areas undergoing constant develop-ment and overlapping with other fields such as welfare and health technology initiatives.


ABOUT UCN

Knowledge that WorksAt University College of Northern Den-mark we generate applied knowledge for use in practice. We see it as our special responsibility to develop applied programmes for the health, education and business/technol-ogy sectors by creating innovative and interactive patterns for practice, educa-tion and research. We are actively responsible for what hap-pens in the world around us.

Outward Bound AttitudesAt UCN we bring knowledge and com-petences to good use through open and positive interaction with regional, national and international networks. This we do to benefit our portfolio of pro-grammes and to assist the development of Northern Denmark. UCN MissionUCN will be a primary provider of basic higher and further education for the regional stakeholders and employers in the form of health, education, technology and business programmes at academy and bachelor levels. UCN has a role as a regional knowledge centre, and in selected fields we also provide develop-ment and education on a national basis. Working for society as a whole we at UCN contribute to Denmark’s welfare, wellness, wealth and democratic and cultural development.

Insight and InvolvementAt UCN we wish to create an attractive and democratic institution and work-place. Through insight and involvement all employees and students contribute towards this goal, and the effort of each single individual is acknowledged and respected no matter field, subject or function. We actively search for the challenges of the future and we meet them with open-ness, dialogue, innovative thinking and by developing the competences of faculty and students. We invest in each other and develop together.

At UCN we appreciate a high level of information, transparency in decisions, clear procedures and a dynamic organ-isation producing quality results in new or existing environments.

University College of Northern Denmark is a good place to be and a good place to learn. Togetherness is in focus while we create a good academic environment and a place to work and to learn. Value of ProgrammesAt UCN we encourage insight, profes-sionalism and future orientation in our tuning of health, education, technological and business education programmes. Close cooperation with private and public firms and organisations, stakeholders and users plus all regional, national and international partners comes natural to us.

UCN VisionAt University College of Northern Denmark we see it as our vision to ensure consistent high professional quality, to ensure the higher and further education for more peo-ple in Northern Denmark, and to continue our activities as a development-oriented institution.

We at UCN want cooperation and good rela-tions with Danish and foreign institutions of higher learning and research, with our North Jutland enterprise stakeholders and with practitioners in health and education.

Real Life Education at UCN Through top-level applied methods and inspired teaching UCN wants to contrib-ute towards a better society and a better region. We acquire new ideas and insights by learning and understanding from real life. Every day, we seek to better understand

how people function in this world. Our slogan, ‘Real Life Education’, is more relevant today than it has ever been.

We develop and teach our students so that they are in a position to take on positions of responsibility in our society. We introduce them to the latest insights and challenge them to get the best out of themselves. Our students and employees form an international community that is eager to look beyond the borders of UCN boundaries. The fast growth and size of our university and our new inspiring campuses make for an open atmosphere in which every-one can feel involved.

University College of Northern Den-mark attaches much value to the transfer of knowledge to society and the benefits of academic knowledge, as expressed in our various collabora-tive partnerships with businesses and social organizations.

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Public benefit The UCN School of Education and Social Studies offers a huge network of eduation - lifelong and societywide - to students, policymakers, practioners, and other stakeholder to enhance the life changes o all learners.

As a School of Education, we take seriously the process of converting our development and research projects into activities for public benefit.

Flexibility The School of Education staff can provide advice and assistance on policy forma-tion, leadership, school improvement, dealing with learning challenges, and competence and capacity building. Our range of diciplines are groupes into three main departments.

ExcellenceA number of highly succesfull excel-ence centres incorporated within the departments ensure that at the School of Education and Social Studies we continue to receive national acclaim - thus, our LP porta has 22,000 online students.

The School occupies three purpose built sites (two in Aalborg and one in Hjørring) All sites have acces to high quality library and information services and have been designed to meet the requirements of more technologicallt based approaches to information storage, retrieval and use.

The School of Education and Social Stud-ies offers three Professional Bachelor programmes:

- Bachelor of Education

- Bachelor of Social Education

- Bachelor of Nature and cultural Her-titage Management

CitiesUCN has more than 7000 studnets in - 25 complete programmes plus 7 top-up programmes in three cities, Aalborg, Hjørring and Thisted.

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL STUDIES

Connection between theory and practiceLearning to connect theory and practice is of great importance on all our pro-grammes. Therefore, theoretical work combined with practical training is greatly prioritised, and learning is organised in individual work, group work, team teaching, lectures, excursions, written exercises and other disciplines. InternationalisationThe international aspect has high priority. To ensure an outstanding international standard, every department has International Coordinators and the faculty comprises a central international function, the Faculty International Office.

The primary tasks of the Education & Social Studies International Office are to: - Develop and partner in international research and development projects - Create Joint and Double Degree Programmes - Encourage mobility across borders - Increase the number of modules taught in English and ensure the quality - Further develop the internationalisation of curricula - Increase the student and staff mobility and ensure the quality in this connection


SOCIAL EDUCATION

Public benefit The UCN School of Education and Social Studies offers a huge network of eduation - lifelong and societywide - to students, policymakers, practioners, and other stakeholder to enhance the life changes o all learners.

As a School of Education, we take seriously the process of converting our development and research projects into activities for public benefit.

Flexibility The School of Education staff can provide advice and assistance on policy forma-tion, leadership, school improvement, dealing with learning challenges, and competence and capacity building. Our range of diciplines are groupes into three main departments.

ExcellenceA number of highly succesfull excel-ence centres incorporated within the departments ensure that at the School of Education and Social Studies we continue to receive national acclaim - thus, our LP porta has 22,000 online students.

The School occupies three purpose built sites (two in Aalborg and one in Hjørring) All sites have acces to high quality library and information services and have been designed to meet the requirements of more technologicallt based approaches to information storage, retrieval and use.

The School of Education and Social Studies offers three Professional Bachelor pro-grammes:

- Bachelor of Education

- Bachelor of Social Education

- Bachelor of Nature and cultural Herti-tage Management

CitiesUCN has more than 7000 studnets in - 25 complete programmes plus 7 top-up pro-grammes in three cities, Aalborg, Hjørring and Thisted.

Connection between theory and practiceLearning to connect theory and practice is of great importance on all our pro-grammes. Therefore, theoretical work combined with practical training is greatly prioritised, and learning is organised in individual work, group work, team teach-ing, lectures, excursions, written exercises and other disciplines. InternationalisationThe international aspect has high priority. To ensure an outstanding international standard, every department has International Coordinators and the faculty com-prises a central international function, the Faculty International Office.

The primary tasks of the Education & Social Studies International Office are to: - Develop and partner in international research and development projects - Create Joint and Double Degree Programmes - Encourage mobility across borders - Increase the number of modules taught in English and ensure the quality - Further develop the internationalisation of curricula - Increase the student and staff mobility and ensure the quality in this connection


SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESSUCN Technology and Business offers professional academic programmes to students who need acces to a business career. We reach our goal through a modern teaching approach, high quality leaning facilities and commited staff and students. UCN Technology and Business’ doors are open to Danish as well international students from all over the world. We also welcome professors, managers and administrative staff on exchanges.

We have research and knownlegde centers within our fields of studies and we are very active in inter-natioal networks as EAIE, SPACE, ERASMUS and NORDPLUS. Also, we have more than 50 partner universities in and outside of Europe with whom we do projects and student/staff exchanges.

The PULSE PhilosophyUCN Technology and Business has a fresh aca-demic approach - everyone involved in the activities of UCN Technology and Business has been trained in the application of a new strategy called PULSE (developed in 2008) - this is a specially devised model for applied higher education.

Focus areas for the new strategy are combined in a organisational structure featiuring a holistic approach . where graduates understand how to combine competencis for maximum benefit.

We call this the head-heart-legs approach, head for academic analysis, heart for enthusiasm and commitment, and legs for the ability to deliver and perform.

Special focus areas for UCN Technology and Business are:

1. Academic Learning StylesHolistic and user-oriented

2. Applied structures - with business contact in all respects.

3. Commitment and enthusiasm

4. Physical framework - buildings and facilities that inspire good academic approach

UCN Tecnology and Business supports the idea of inter-national professional skills for career oriented graduates who have the ability to combine knowledge, personal, and social skills to foster creativity and active innovation in their careers.

Creation of value is a nasic principle for what we do in our section of the university, and we spend a lot of effort on developing global personal skills and equality aca-demic interaction in all respects.

UCN Technology and Business has longstanding links with business has longstanding links with business, industry, the public sector and professional organiza-tions, and our commitment to being Denmark’s leading instituion on professinal higher education means that our students benefit from our drive to ensure that our gradu-ates are the first choice for employers.


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STRATEGY 2016

Defined interventionsAt the institutional level, we are talking about a total of 5 defined interventions: 1. Development of an UCN learning ap-proach2. Interdisciplinarity and flexibility 3. Training and IT4. Development of more value-added practice related 5. Practice-oriented research and devel-opment work

Trade parametersIn order to support the achievement of the priority areas of focus and efforts of UCN strategy 2015, we have built four underlying trade parameters, which will be included as an integral element of the strategy.

Realization of UCN strategy 2015 re-quires that we develop a transversal cul-ture, based on the mutual recognition of these basic trade patterns. The choice of the four trade patterns is the expression of a management priority and must thus support the achievement of the strategy, which is why they must be assessed as an essential element of UCN strategy 2015. Trade patterns must be respected as symbols of the desired future UCN culture of all managers, employees and students, and thus is involved in its own code of conduct and handlingsmæs-sige choices of the individual. It is the goal that the four operating parameters before the end of the strategy period are incorporated in UCN’s existing manage-ment code and value basis.

Vision 2020Where the Mission represents a particu-lar livelihood for UCN, so is the formula-tion of the Vision 2020 and UCN strategy 2015 expression of managerial priorities of strategic focus that will support a desired development of the institution in the years to come. The strategic focus, which is a priority for the coming period, exploded in the following sections and can be summarized in the figure below illustrative. As the figure shows, is that the strategy unfolded two strategic areas of focus:

- reality as a learning space - Practice synergy

The two focus areas are selected and for-mulated so that they support the desired direction expressed in Vision 2020; vision the goal of development of an agenda-setting institution with a strong profile. The strategic focus areas must be real-ized through a combination of;

- Strengthening and development of the institution’s services increased visibility of UCN’s activities, achievements and skills. - By extension, initiated a series of stra-tegic bets on both institutionally as local level, which should help sustain the two strategic areas of focus.


The four basic trade patternsCourage must be recognised and sup-ported in UCN. Because new thinking and innovation to create our future profile – and it happens only when the framework encourages curiosity, trials and experi-ments.UCN must recognise the activeness, so decisions are translated into action. Because we need the ability to create in a world and practice development frame-work which are changing continuously, and not always leaves room to establish a 100% secure facts-or process basis for action. UCN wants to increase visibility and create a clearer profile of what we stand for and of the qualities we represent in our educa-tion and knowledge. Because the world around us tells us that we already have many strengths in our profile and generate many good stories through our education, research and development work, but that these are too little-profile and visible in the media and in our communication with

external partners and therefore have not yet created the necessary founda-tion to realize our contribution to value creation in the professions and trades.

We will develop UCN by creating mean-ingful context; - internally between professional back-grounds and cultures in your organiza-tion – with respect for both the profes-sional diversity and of the need for joint efforts and UCN characteristics

- externally in relation to professions, occupations and other knowledge-development and education actors

Because diversity is UCN’s force if interdisciplinarity can be put into the game as a positive option that strengthens and supports education and profile – and UCN as an organiza-tion. It is therefore absolutely essential to students and partners experience an UCN, as abilities to apply its diversity as a positive value.

REFLECTIVE PRACTISE-BASED LEARNING

Through top-level applied methods and inspired teaching UCN wants to contribute towards a better society and a better region. We acquire new ideas and insights by learning and understanding from real life. Every day, we seek to better understand how people function in this world. Our slogan, ‘Real Life Education’, is more relevant today than it has ever been.

We develop and teach our students so that they are in a position to take on positions of responsibility in our society. We introduce them to the latest insights and challenge them to get the best out of themselves. Our students and employees form an international community that is eager to look beyond the borders of UCN boundaries. The fast growth and size of our university and our new inspiring campuses make for an open atmo-sphere in which everyone can feel involved.

University College of Northern Denmark attaches much value to the transfer of knowledge to society and the benefits of academic knowledge, as expressed in our various collaborative partnerships with businesses and social organizations.

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