The faculty management team has new goals and activities ready for 2019. Internationalisation, external research funding and recruitment are again in focus – but with a twist. Find out more about next year's activities or listen to Dean Lars Bo Nielsen briefly explain them.

2018.12.11 | Af Simon Fischel (video) og Ulla Krag Jespersen (tekst)

Internationalisation, external research funding and recruitment is on the docket again for 2019. Photo: Simon Fischel

As most people at the faculty are undoubtedly aware, Health’s strategic focus areas for 2018 are internationalisation, external research funding and recruitment. They will continue as the headings in 2019.

At the faculty management team’s seminar in November, there was general agreement that the three prioritised focus areas should continue next year, not least because so many meaningful activities have been started and are now really beginning to deliver while still needing continued focus. But though the headings remain the same, new activities will also be incorporated in each focus area.

The recruitment focus area is being expanded to also include “career development focusing on diversity”. This has to do with e.g. more women in research, but also diversity in terms of age, academic and cultural background and awareness about ensuring good career opportunities for employees already at the faculty.

On Tuesday 18 December, the faculty management team will finally adopt the activities for each of the three focus areas – but in the following you can get an idea of what the faculty will in all likelihood come to focus on in 2019.

Selected activities in 2019

Internationalisation

· Honorary Skou Professors – the first 21 have been found and there will be a new round of nominations in March followed by an inauguration ceremony in October 2019.

· Increased foreign co-supervisors will further opportunities for PhD students to get an international network and take part in academic dialogues in an international perspective.

External research funding

· A new forum for research will strengthen knowledge sharing and coordinating of research support across Health.

· Focus on EU funding covering a range of activities all aiming to help selected researchers from Health apply for and secure more EU grants.

· Strengthening academic networks within neuroscience, rehabilitation, personalised medicine, cardiovascular, inflammation and food is an activity that will continue in 2019, with work primarily being done to support the interdisciplinary collaboration process.

· ReAp as a support and management tool will be relaunched to make it easier for individual researchers to register applications and grants. The goal is for all applications in excess of DKK 100,000 to be registered in ReAp.

Recruitment and career development focusing on diversity

· The Junior Researchers Development Programme which is a career development programme designed for early career researchers at AU, must be more widely embedded at the faculty.

· Establishment of a career development programme for academic leadership talents – both with scientific and administrative backgrounds.