The University of Southern Denmark Faculty of Science

1. The University of Southern DenmarkFaculty of Science

2. SDU Strategy Statement • Degree Programme • 1: Attractive degree programmes • 2: Differentiated forms of teaching • 3: Attractive student life • Key goals: • In 2020 the drop-out rate for the first year bachelor programme will be max. 12% • In 2020 the average duration of a completed programme will be reduced by at least 3.1 months from 2011 levels • In 2020 SDU will take at least 15% of first priority applicants • Research • 4: Elite research in selected areas • 5: Interdisciplinary research • Key goals: • In 2020 external funding will have increased by 50% from 2013 levels • During the period 2014-2020 the university’s total funding from EU sources will be at least DKK 700m • In 2020 SDU will be among the top 150 on Leiden world ranking list • Internationalization • 6: An international study environment • 7: An international workplace • Key goals: • In 2020 the number of students with periods of study abroad will have increased by 50% over 2013 levels • In 2020 at least 60% of the university’s publications will be international collaborative productions • In 2020 at least 20% of the university’s full-time staff will be from abroad • In 2020 at least 25% of the university’s academic staff will be from abroad • Outreach • 8: Services to fulfil the needs of society • 9: Regional roots • Key goals: • In 2020 the proportion of academics in employment in the regions of Southern Denmark and Zealand will have doubled against 2013 levels • In 2020 the number of collaborative agreements between researchers and public organizations will have increased by 50% against 2013 levels

3. The Faculty of ScienceStrategy Statement • Research • 4: Elite research in selected areas • 5: Interdisciplinary research • Degree Programme • 1: Attractive degree programmes • 2: Differentiated forms of teaching • 3: Attractive student life • A Good Place to Work • 10: Influence • 11: Development • 12: Job satisfaction and spirit • Outreach • 8: Services to fulfil the needs of society • 9: Regional roots Internationalization 6: An international study environment 7: An international workplace

4. The Faculty of ScienceStrategy Statement • Degree Programmes • Initiative 1: Attractive degree programmes • Actions: • To develop and deliver programmes in collaboration with the labour market • To develop interdisciplinary programmes • To develop programmes that ensure cohesion in the educational system • To further develop the university’s PhD courses • Additional actions at the Faculty of Science: • Strengthen the innovative element in all degree programmes at the Faculty of Science • Initiative 2: Differentiated forms of teaching • Actions: • To increase the use of active learning and activating teaching • To develop incentives for excellent teaching • To increase the choice of specific talent programmes for students • Additional actions at the Faculty of Science: • Implement the three phase model • Support the transition from pupil to student • Initiative 3: Attractive student life • Actions: • To develop opportunities for sports and other cultural and social activities • To contribute to the procurement of jobs relevant to university study • Additional actions at the Faculty of Science: • Support academic and social events

5. The Faculty of ScienceStrategy Statement • Research • Initiative 4: Elite research in selected areas • To prioritize selected research areas • To set up an top research programme • To set up a research talent programme • Additional actions at the Faculty of Science: • All departments have basic research activities within the scope of independent research financed by national and international foundations on par with the Danish National Research Foundation or ERC • Initiative 5: Interdisciplinary research • Actions: • To further develop interdisciplinary research • To strengthen the infrastructural framework for interdisciplinary research in close collaboration with our partners • Additional actions at the Faculty of Science: • Dedicate Ph.D. fellowships to interdisciplinary projects, both across departments and faculties

6. The Faculty of ScienceStrategy Statement • Internationalization • Initiative 6: An international study environment • Actions: • To integrate periods of study abroad into curricula • To create a framework for foreign students that provides attractive conditions for study • To increase the number of bachelor and masters degrees taught in English • Initiative 7: An international workplace • Actions: • To increase the recruitment of international staff • To offer opportunities for developing language skills • To increase collaboration with selected foreign universities • Additional actions at the Faculty of Science: • To increase the involvement of foreign employees at all levels and in all tasks

7. The Faculty of ScienceStrategy Statement • Outreach • Initiative 8: Services to fulfil the needs of society • Actions: • To increase the commercialisation and applicability of research • To offer relevant and attractivepost-graduate and in-service programmes • To increaseour participation in public debate and our transmission of knowledge, including research-based services to public authorities • Additional actions at the Faculty of Science: • To make the faculty’s innovative research projects visible in order to commercialisethem; amongotherthings via the completion of an annual innovation contest • To contribute to the consolidation of SDU’sincubatorenvironment with laboratories • To expand the collaboration of the Faculty of Science with public organisations and NGO’s • Inititative 9: Regional roots • Actions: • A clear and updated profile for research and degree programmes for campusesoutside Odense • To increasecollaboration with Odense University Hospital and the other regional healthauthorities • To set up collaborations with business in urban centres aroundeach campus • Additional actions at the Faculty of Science • To furtherinvolve the Faculty of Science at SDU-campusses outside of Odense • To manage the Laboratory for CoherentTeaching and Learning in collaboration with University College Lillebælt (UCL) and University College South Denmark (UCS)

8. The Faculty of ScienceStrategy Statement • A Good Place to Work • Initiative 10: Influence • Actions: • To ensure and further the involvement of the employees • To support active and positive internal communication • Initiative 11: Development opportunities • Actions: • To ensure systematic development of competences and professional career guidance • To further gender equality and to ensure cultural diversity • To make room for differences and to further integration • Initiative 12: Job satisfaction and spirit • Actions: • To support professional and social events across the Faculty of Science • To promote ambitions and expertise and to make room for astonishment and curiosity • To arrange the work environment so that it supports problem solving and knowledge sharing in the best way possible • To prioritize and balance resources in regards to ambitions and tasks • Research • 4: Elite research in selectedareas • 5: Interdisciplinary research • Degree Programme • 1: Attractivedegree programmes • 2: Differentiated forms of teaching • 3: Attractive student life • Outreach • 8: Services to fulfil the needs of society • 9: Regional roots Internationalization 6: An international studyenvironment 7: An international workplace March 2014

9. The Faculty of ScienceStrategies • Overall strategy statement • Marketing- and communication strategy 2013-16 • Internal communication strategy 2013-2016 • Outreach- and recruitment strategy 2013-2016 • The presentation of degree programmes 2013-2016 • Press contact and research presentation 2013-2016 • Internationalization 2013-2016

10. The Faculty of ScienceStrategies • Degree Programmes: The Maritime House, talent programmes, innovation at BSc and MSc programmes, academic and social programme start-up • Research: Research advisory board (terms of reference), information about Support Office Science (SOS) • Outreach: Laboratory for Coherent Teaching and Learning (LSUL) • A Good Place to Work: principles for involving leadership, FESTA, inspirational talks and much more

11. The Faculty of ScienceThe Process, 2014 • March 7: Meeting with key persons concerning ’A Good Place to Work’– determination of themes and process • March18 to April 30: hearing process of the strategy statement • April & May: Writing of the final strategy statement with key persons. The management Group approves the strategy statement • June 2014: the strategy statement is translated into English and published

12. The Faculty of ScienceStrategic Ventures DEGREE PROGRAMMES • To implement the three phase model at all 3+2 years (1) (2) (3) • To initiate the talent strategy at the bachelor programmes (1) (2) • To complete an international evaluation of the Ph.D. school and introduce 3+5 in continuation of the Talent Track • To implement the Strategy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at all 3+2 years (1) (2) • To systematize the visibility of ”Genius and iGEM”- the initiatives at the BSc diploma (Talent) (1) • MSc programme for UC (e.g. for school teachers, biomedical laboratory technicians…with SUND and the UC’s) (1) • To support UNF and the academic societies at the four departments (3) • To coordinate practise stays in the third year of the BSc (1) (2) • To establish a new international degree programme in Computational Biomedicine (with SUND after a model from UA) (1) • To introduce entry requirements at quota 1; quota 2 (with tests similar to SUND) (1) • To differentiate in depth (talent) as well as in width (general qualifications) (1)(2) • To optimize the study start and the study start assignment. To systematize the transition from pupil to student (1) (1) Attractive degree programmes (2) Differentiated forms of teaching (3) Attractive student life

13. The Faculty of ScienceStrategic Ventures RESEARCH • To create interaction between theory, experiment and computer calculations e.g. Computational Biology (12 ERC applications from new employees (4)) (5) • CP3 must be the theoretical centre of high energy physics in Denmark (4)(5) • DG-Centre for Arctic sea-ice, climate change and marine biogeochemisty (with AU and NordCEE) (5)(4) • DG-Centre for Regulatory Networks in Differentiation and Metabolism (across BMB academic environments and with SUND) (5)(4) • Computer science and mathematics together: Discrete methods and Computational Mathematics (5) • To establish a research talent programme (4) • DG candidates Synthesis and simulation: Synthesis- and quantum chemistry (4) Experimental physics and neutrinos – with CERN (Niels Bohr Professor) (4) 12 will proceed this time; max 2 from SDU – we must have one of the other ten (4) Diabetes Academy Professor (4) (5) Interdisciplinary research (4) Elite research March 2014

14. The Faculty of Science Strategic Ventures • INTERNATIONALIZATION • To implement an exchange stay at all MSc programmes (6) • 66 exchange agreements with 168 exchange places for NAT (6) • To point out new partner universities and establish pre-approved programmes (6) • To market and quality assure material and descriptions of NAT’s degree programmes (key goals) • To participate in fairs in collaboration with other faculties, e.g. in Germany (key goals) • To hire researchers via ERC grants • The Rennes agreement: Strategic agreement with French university about credits for French students (6) • Collaboration with Griffith University (7) • Computational Biology: New interdisciplinary MSc programme in English (6+key goals) • To increase the involvement of foreign employees at all levels and in all assignments • Programme start up for international students at MSc level (6) • (6) An international study environment (7) An international workplace March 2014

15. The Faculty of Science Strategic Ventures OUTREACH • Laboratory for coherent teaching and learning (UCL, UCS) (8)(9) • SmagForLivet (taste – a driving force for learning, education and practise (AU, KU, UCL, UCSj) (8) • Pharmaceutical development and marketing (multidisciplinary collaborations between NAT and SUND with potential for collaboration with KU, AU, NN and Novozymes) (8) • Collaboration: Eskitis, Griffith U: Organic substance chemistry and pharmaceutical production (with TEK) (8) • Scouting and PoP-initiatives; entrepreneurship in Ph.D. - programmes.; more corporate Ph.D.’s (8) (9) • Education offers for teachers and students at upper secondary school: The Maritime House (TEK, SAMF) (8)(9) Technology transfer (9) • 3D ProtoTissue™ -in vivo-like cell cultures for toxicology studies and screening • Targeting of RAS mutations in cancer through splice shifting oligonucleotides • TUG-770, a GPR40 agonist for treatment of type 2 diabetes • New Assay Format for Drug Permeability • STX, a novel drug target for treatment of metastatic cancer (8) Services to fulfil the needs of society (9) Regional roots

16. The Faculty of ScienceStrategic Ventures OUTREACH continued • To offer relevant and attractive post-graduate & in-service programmes (8) • To increase our participation in public debate and our transmission of knowledge, including research-based services to public authorities (8) • To contribute to the consolidation of SDU’sincubatorenvironment with laboratories (8) • To expand the collaboration of the Faculty of Science with public organisations and NGO’s (8) • To furtherinvolve the Faculty of Science at SDU-campusses outside of Odense (9) (8) Services to fulfil the needs of society (9) Regional roots March 2014

17. The Faculty of ScienceStrategic Ventures • A GOOD PLACE TO WORK • To implement principles for involving leadership (10) • To implement the strategy for internal communication (10) • To make a plan for employee involvement (10) • To draw up a strategy for competency development (11) • To develop career development programmes for VIP and TAP (11) • Female Empowerment in Science and Tecnology Academia (FESTA): to create an attractive and diverse work environment, also for younger women (11) • Inspirational talks and other social event across the faculty (12) • (10) Influence (11) Development opportunities (12) Job satisfaction and spirit March 2014

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