Danish University Colleges - their development obligation, knowledge-basing and knowledge centre function
Mapping and qualitative studies

The Danish University Colleges are required to supply basic (undergraduate), further and continuing education programmes that match the demand and long-term needs of the labour market for competencies and adaptability. In this way, they can play a central role in innovation, quality development and increased productivity, in both the public and the private sectors. They are therefore obliged to be development- and knowledge-based. Among the means by which this is to be achieved are research collaboration and collaboration with professions/trades. The study focuses on barriers and opportunities relevant to the realisation of these objectives and indicates, among other things, a need for institutionalisation of collaboration interfaces, for a stable financial basis for development-basing, and for increased involvement of teaching staff.