University Performance Contracts – The Danish Model

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More attractive places of work at the universities, intensified coorperation with the society-at-large, a more systematic effort of communication, better research planning and protection of research.

These are some of the elements in the university performance contracts which the Ministry of Research and Information Technology and the Ministry of Education have entered into with Denmark's 10 universities.

The university performance contracts place the universities on the societies and the politicical agenda as modern, attractive centres of research, education and knowledge.

The university performance contracts invite each individual university to set up a number of ambitious goals and visions for their activities, on the basis of their own situation.