ACUP visits Denmark to learn about its university and research system

Between 27 and 30 October a delegation of the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP) visits Denmark in order to deepen the knowledge about the university system of innovation in this country and in particular to understand the policies and incentive mechanisms for knowledge transfer and university-corporate relations. For this purpose the delegation will meet with the ACUP counterpart, Universities Denmark. And it will also visit the Danish Accreditation Institution and the Danish Evaluation Institute, the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark and meet with the Danish minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education.

The delegation consists of Ferran Sancho, ACUP president and rector of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Francesc Xavier Grau, rector of the University Rovira i Virgili, Jordi Alberch, vice chancellor for Research at the University of Barcelona, Josep Ferrer, vice chancellor for International Relations at the University Pompeu Fabra, Maria Lluïsa Perez Cabaní, vicechancellor for International Politics at the University of Girona and Josep M. Vilalta, executive secretary of the ACUP.