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L U N D S U N I V E R S I T E T
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The whole University is taking off
” Lund University is fantastic and we are now
about to become even better, developing our
collective talents”
Vice-Chancellor Göran Bexell
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About the Strategic Plan
• Prioritised goals and strategies for the whole University
• Primary target groups: Employees and students
• For the 2007-2011 period• Adopted by the University Board
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Outline
• Vice-Chancellor• Mission• Basic values• Vision• Overall goals• Strategies• Where do we go from here?
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Vision
Lund University shall stand among the very best of European universities
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Overall Goals
• Highest quality in education and research
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Four strategies
• Quality assurance • Cross-disciplinary collaboration • Internationalisation • Leader, teacher and employee excellence
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Strategy: Quality assurance
• Quality monitoring processes to be implemented for all activities, including research, education and administration
• Comparable to other nationally and internationally leading activities.
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Strategy: Quality assurance in education (1)
• Quality assurance system shall continue to develop during 2007–08
• New programmes will be validated prior to being offered
• All programmes will be quality assured continuously
• Successful educational environments will receive extra financing
• A long-term system for the reallocation of resources will be introduced…
• …as will models for development or phasing-out
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Strategy: Quality assurance in education (2)
• Doctoral programmes in wide research settings
• Student recruitment of both sexes from a wide range of social and ethnic backgrounds
• LU will distinguish itself by programmes on an advanced level, especially Master programmes
• Marketing efforts will be reinforced, as well as profiling and public relations
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Strategy: Quality assurance in research (1)
• Quality assurance programme starting 2008
• Evaluating both results and focus• Adapted to the character and needs of
each Faculty area• Five-year intervals• External panels and self-evaluation
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Strategy: Quality assurance in the administration
• All administration units shall introduce systems for continuous quality assurance
• No later than 2008• Sufficiently large administrative units
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Strategy: Cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Research organisation shall be developed further, supplemented, with more thematically structured centres
• The forms for creating centres will be developed
• Administrative barriers to collaboration will be removed
• Improved system for coordination of activities and more efficient common use of equipment and infrastructure shall be introduced
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Strategy: Cross-disciplinary collaboration (2)
• Mutual, beneficial relationships shall be developed with actors in all sectors of society
• Activities encouraging entrepreneurship shall continue to be developed
• The innovation system shall become one of the foremost in Europe
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Strategy: Internationalisation
• Priorities among our international, formalised collaboration agreements:– Universitas 21– LERU– the Öresund University– Middle East– East- and Southeast Asia– South Asia– Developing countries
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Strategy: Internationalisation
• More students will spend part of their student years abroad
• All doctoral candidates gets the opportunity to spend a period at foreign institutions without losing their financial support
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Strategy: Internationalisation
• Services offered to students going abroad must be improved
• Teachers shall be offered the possibility of working periods outside of Sweden
• Joint programmes and joint summer schools shall be encouraged
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L U N D S U N I V E R S I T E TStrategy: Leader, teacher and employee excellence
• A necessity for successful implementation is a well-defined, equal opportunity leadership
• The University must work proactively to place more women in prominent leadership positions
• The leadership must be developed with high communications competence and a thorough foundation in the basic values and visions of the University.
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L U N D S U N I V E R S I T E TStrategy: Leader, teacher and employee excellence (2)
• The University shall prepare the students for leadership functions
• Teachers shall act as role models for a responsible and ethically aware leadership
• All students shall have a student mentor while at the University
• New mentor systems will be created progressively
