Partner Institutions

Aalborg University

Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark is an internationally focused center of excellence with special commitments to problem-based learning, interdisciplinary study and research, and innovation.  Aalborg University is an open and rigorous academic community that contributes to both the Danish society and the broader global world.

The Asian University for Women (AUW) equally aspires to be an internationally focused center of excellence.  A partnership between Aalborg University and the Asian University for Women will further our mutual goals of creating research and education that benefits our local communities, engages intimately with the global world, and prepares and empowers our graduates to respond to the needs of a rapidly changing world.

As a premier research institution focused on a problem-oriented pedagogy, Aalborg University manifests the kind of innovative education that AUW hopes to offer. The Asian University for Women has entered into an agreement with Aalborg University, through which the two institutions have formed a long-term partnership to develop a graduate program in Computer Science and Information and Communication Technology at AUW. Drawing on the intellectual talents of the faculty at Aalborg, such a partnership will bring world-class education to the gifted young women enrolled at AUW.                 

A memorandum of agreement was signed between the two institutions in Aalborg in October 2006. A delegation from Aalborg University visited Bangladesh in February 2007, and established the initial parameters for the partnership. Under the provisions of the agreement, Aalborg University will collaborate with AUW on a number of fronts:

• Aalborg University will create an academic infrastructure for the program, including the formulation of a curriculum for a two-year Master’s in Computer Science and Information Communication Technology.
• Additionally, Aalborg University will help define the necessary prerequisites that will have to be offered in the undergraduate course of study for students to successfully pursue higher education at AUW.
• Aalborg University will guide AUW in the design, planning, and implementation of the facilities and equipments associated with the program.
• Aalborg University will provide extensive faculty support to AUW, including a number of faculty members to teach at AUW, until such time as AUW is able to recruit its own core faculty base.

To develop a crew of highly trained Asian women who could serve in faculty positions at AUW, up to ten women from across the region may be eligible for additional doctoral training at Aalborg University, with a commitment to teach at AUW.

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Contact: For more information on the AUW-Aalborg partnership, please contact Mr. Jesper Lauritsen, Aalborg’s project coordinator in charge of the AUW program:

Jesper Lauritsen

Department 11

Kroghstræde 1, Room: 2-013

9220 Aalborg Ø

Denmark

Phone: 9940 7269

Fax: 9815 9434

Email: jesperl@hum.aau.dk