In collaboration with six business councils from Mid- and West Jutland, the Faculty of Arts has launched the “Academics in Business Life” project with a view to helping to generate new knowledge, development and growth in the small and medium-sized companies taking part.

The idea is to utilise the competences of MA graduates at small and medium-sized companies in the region with a view to:

• Showing more companies what our graduates can do

• Increasing the competitive ability and innovation capacity of these companies

• Increasing the level of employment among our graduates

 

With the support of the European Social Fund, the project gives companies the chance to take on an academic for three months. The person concerned will be employed by the project at the Faculty of Arts, and will be lent out to the company as a member of their staff. The companies taking part can also make a case available for the profile course called “Humanistic Innovation”, or collaborate with students as they write their thesis.

The project focuses on helping to achieve the growth potential and growth ambitions of the companies taking part in areas where they themselves lack specific competences. This growth potential may lie in the fields of internationalisation, digitalisation, health and welfare systems, and information and communication technology. The project would also like to improve the level of collaboration between the business community, business councils and the university.

The project spans over a two year period, with involvement from companies in the fall 2020 and 2021. A total of 57 small and medium-sized companies has taken part ind the project and thereby have benefitted from academic colleagues.