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University of Agder

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:19:11 +0000

On 1 September, 2007 Agder University College became the University of Agder. This is the result of decades of political and academic effort and the systematic development of the academic environment in the region.

The University of Agder was established on 1 September, 2007 when Agder University College received university accreditation. Agder University College had its roots in Agder College, established in 1994 when six regional colleges merged as a result of the national university college reform.

The University of Agder is the fifth largest higher education institution in Norway. The university was established on September 1, 2007 when Agder University College officially became the University of Agder. Agder refers to the region, consisting of the two counties of Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder.

Faculties & administration

The merger established an institution with 5,700 students and 540 faculty and staff. The University of Agder had in 2007 approximately 8,000 students, 900 employees and an annual budget of about 800 million crowns.

The college was organized into eight, later seven faculties with the teacher training programmes (pre-school teacher education, general teacher education and practical-pedagogical education) organized interdisciplinarily.

In September 2006, the Board voted to merge the Faculties of Humanities and Education, as well as the Faculties of Engineering and Science and Mathematics and Science, resulting in the following five faculties from August 2007:

Faculty of Health and Sport

Faculty of Humanities and Education

Faculty of Fine Arts

Faculty of Engineering and Science

Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

The teacher education programmes will still be organized interdisciplinarily, under the Department of Teacher Education.

At the same time, the Board decided that the university’s activities in Aust Agder would be consolidated in Grimstad. This is expected to occur in 2009, when the new buildings around Televeien (the Technology Park) are completed.

Contact us

Switchboard

Telephone: +47 38 14 10 00
Fax: + 47 38 14 10 01
Email: postmottak@uia.no

Addresses

Postal address:

Service Box 422, NO-4604 Kristiansand, Norway

Visiting addresses:

Kristiansand Gimlemoen: Gimlemoen 25A, Kristiansand

Kristiansand Musikkens hus (Music Conservatory): Kongens gt 54, Kristiansand

Grimstad Grooseveien: Grooseveien 36, Grimstad

Grimstad Dømmesmoen: Dømmesmoen, Grimstad

Arendal: Sykehusveien 4, Arendal

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Telephone catalogue

Faculties and Divisions

Contact information for each faculty can be found here.

If you are a prospective exchange student, contact the International Office.

Adam Mickiewicz University

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:39:32 +0000

Adam Mickiewicz University is one of the largest academic centers in Poland. The University currently employs nearly 3,000 teaching staff, including 301 full professors, 373 AMU professors and 897 senior lecturers. A smooth daily functioning of the University rests in the hands of about 2,000 administrative and technical staff members.

The University serves 52,000 students with 14 faculties offering BA, MA and PhD programmes. Students can choose from 190 majors. Among most popular degree courses are psychology, biotechnology, tourism, and political science. The newest programmes include film studies, sound editing, ethnolinguistics, social communication, protection of cultural heritage, and hydrobiology.

Adam Mickiewicz University cooperates with over 100 partner universities abroad.

The first institution of higher learning in Pozna?, was founded in 1519 by Bishop Jan Lubra?ski. Another institution of higher learning in Pozna? was the Jesuit College, founded in 1573. Its founder and first rector was the reverend Jakub Wujek, author of a well-known Polish translation of the Bible. On October 28th, 1611, King Sigismund III Vasa granted the Jesuit College the status of a university.

Unfortunately, the King’s decree evoked a sharp protest on the part of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow as a result of which Pope Paul V issued a bulla in which the Cracow Academy’s privileges had been reconfirmed. The Jesuit College managed to maintain a high level of academic instruction, it conferred academic degrees and continued extensive publishing activities. In 1772, Russia, Prussia and Austria accomplished the First Partition of Poland. The College was closed in 1773, following the annulment of the Jesuit Order.

Throughout the 123 years of the Prussian Partition, the idea of creating an institution of higher education in the Wielkopolska region had never vanished. Shortly after Poland had regained independence, on May 7th, 1919, the University of Pozna?, initially named the Piast University, officially inaugurated its activities. Dr. Heliodor ?wi?cicki, whose portrait opens a gallery of 27 portraits of former Rectors of the Pozna? University hanging on the walls of the Rector’s Office, was elected the first Rector of the newly-established University. In 1920, the University changed its name to that of the University of Pozna?. In the period before the Second World War, the University was organized into five faculties and offered academic education in the following disciplines: law, economy, medicine, humanities, mathematics, natural sciences, agriculture and forestry.

During World War II, the Pozna? University was closed, however the teachers and researchers did not stop working and organised the Underground University of Western Lands in Warsaw. Owing to their devotion and heroism about 2,000 students graduated from the Underground University. As the war drew to a close in February 1945, and while Pozna? was still the scene of heavy fighting, the University was re-opened. In December 1955, it was named after great Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz.

Admissions Office serving DEGREE STUDENTS: undergraduate and MA students
Prospective students

Admissions Office
Collegium Minus
ul. Wieniawskiego 1
61-712 Pozna?, PL
e-mail: dnuam@amu.edu.pl

International Office serving GUEST, EXCHANGE, SOCRATES and PhD students
Prospective students

International Office
Collegium Minus
ul. Wieniawskiego 1
61-712 Pozna?, PL

Phone: +48 61 8294435
Fax: +48 61 8294406
e-mail: dwzuam@amu.edu.pl
The year 1989, the end of communism and the rapid growth of Poland’s economy offered a great chance to Polish HEI. The number of AMU students grew from 13,000 in 1989 to 51,000 in the year 2005.

The Academy of Media Art Cologne

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:29:53 +0000

The Academy of Media Art Cologne (KHM) was founded in 1990, and offers a special and unique concept of study: instead of separating the fields of film, television, art, design and theory, they are integrated into a single course of study leading to a diploma in Audiovisual Media.

This study concept demands and facilitates an interdisciplinary engagement with the most varied artistic fields and spaces, from photography, video, feature films, documentaries, artistic television formats and animation to art in public spaces, architecture, sound, scenography, computer science in games, programming, and code, the theory and history of technology, art, the media, and aesthetics.

The results are unconventional, experimental works that go beyond predetermined definitions and genres and beyond ready-made techniques. Low and high tech are just as important components as are the symbiosis of science, development and games, documentary or staged, conventional or manipulated elements. Cooperation with institutions of higher education at home and abroad, cultural institutes, organisers of exhibitions and the media and film industries promote this process of integration.

Experimental creative praxis in conjunction with the acquisition of media-technical competence has high priority. Students’ work is project oriented and is accomplished in ateliers, studios, and laboratories. These multi-facetted activities are accompanied by lectures and seminars that cover the history and theory of media and art, as well as the historical and theoretical basics of audiovisual media. Since 2004 postgraduate study (Ph.D.) at the KHM is possible.

The academic staff of the KHM are an international team of professors and assistants, who are part of a global network of fellows, guest lecturers, and collaborators.

Once a year, towards the end of the summer semester, the KHM opens its doors for an Open Day. Everyone who is interested can view the artworks produced during the academic year, and potential students have the opportunity to visit.

Organisation

The senior management team of the KHM comprises the rector, Professor Marie-Luise Angerer, two pro-rectors, Professor Marcel Odenbach (study and teaching) and Professor Thomas Bauermeister (infrastructure und planning), and the director of administration and finance, Heiner Simons.

The rectorate takes decisions in all matters that the University Law does not assign to other university bodies. The rector represents the Academy internally and externally. She is chief officer of the rectorate and determines the principles according to which the Academy is run. The rector is head supervisor of the artistic and research staff and is responsible for the artistic concerns of the Academy, the development and realisation of goals and perspectives of future work, the Academy’s profile presented in the public sphere, and contacts with sponsors and partners.

As a member of the rectorate, the director of administration and finance is responsible for administrative affairs and supervising the non-academic staff of the institution. He is responsible for the Academy’s budget and represents the rector in legal matters.

Contact

Postal Adress / Head Office

Academy of Media Arts
Peter-Welter-Platz 2
D-50676 Cologne
fon: +49 (0)221 – 20189 – 0
fax: +49 (0)221 – 20189 – 17

Registrar’s Office
of the Academy of Media Arts
Peter-Welter-Platz 2
D-50676 Cologne
fon: +49 (0)221 – 20189 – 119
fax: +49 (0)221 – 20189 – 298
email: studoffice@khm.de

Press and Public Relations Office

of the Academy of Media Arts
Peter-Welter-Platz 2
D-50676 Cologne
fon: +49 (0)221 – 20189 – 135 oder – 330
fax: +49 (0)221 – 20189 – 17
email: presse@khm.de

Technical Administration of this Website

email: webmaster@khm.de

Åbo Akademi University

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:18:06 +0000

Åbo Akademi University offers both undergraduate and graduate studies and extensive research opportunities to some 7000 students on three campuses. Our university is located in Åbo (Turku in Finnish), on the south west coast of Finland and in Vasa (Fi. Vaasa).

Leading research in many areas
Åbo Akademi University has an acknowledged position
at the forefront of research in such areas as biosciences,
computer science, democracy, human rights, material sciences, process chemistry and psychology.

Åbo Akademi University – Facts 2008: Brief history

1640 The Royal Academy in Åbo founded by Count Per Brahe
1827 The Great Fire of Åbo
1828 The Royal Academy moves to Helsinki and later becomes Helsinki University
1917 Åbo Akademi University Endowment established
1918 Åbo Akademi University founded with three faculties: Arts,
Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Political Science, which
was the first of its kind in the Nordic countries
1920 The Faculty of Chemical Engineering
1924 The Faculty of Theology
1927 The Åbo Akademi School of Economics and Business Administration
1964 New law guarantees State support for Åbo Akademi University
1974 The Faculty of Education in Vasa
1980 The School of Economics and Business Administration and
the Faculty of Political Science amalgamated to form
the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
1981 Åbo Akademi University becomes a state university
1992 The Faculty of Social and Caring Sciences in Vasa
1995 Kindergarten teacher training in Jakobstad
2006 The Faculty of Chemical Engineering becomes the Faculty of Technology
2008 Åbo Akademi University celebrates 90 years of activity

Contact us

Åbo Akademi University
Postal address:
Åbo Akademi University
Tuomiokirkontori 3
FI-20500 TURKU
FINLAND
Phone:
(02) 215 31

Åbo Akademi University in Vaasa
Postal address:
Åbo Akademi University in Vaasa
Po Box 311
FI-65101 VAASA
FINLAND
Phone:
(06) 324 7111

Abant Izzet Baysal University

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:08:46 +0000

Abant Izzet Baysal University was founded on July 3, 1992 with the aim of establishing a centre of excellence in higher education and research. Today it has 8 faculties, 3 institutes, 5 two-year programmes, 6 vocational schools and 4 research centres. Nine hundred academicians are proud to educate 18200 students in this modern environment. Academic Units of Abant Izzet Baysal University are spread out to a large area, which includes the districts of Bolu province, like Gerede, Mengen, Mudurnu and the neighbouring province Düzce and its district Akçakoca. The main Izzet Baysal Campus of the University is the central one and is only 8 kms to the city centre.

The University accepts unreservedly that creating an academic ground for social, cultural, scientific, economic and technological development in an international context is essential for its mission. For this reason, Abant Izzet Baysal University aims to be a dynamic institution focusing at excellence that will bring the development of our society and mankind to the highest universal standards. So far the University has covered a long distance and become

“the most rapidly progressing University in Turkey ”. Excellent educational infrastructure, including a modern library and extensive computer facilities with internet connection, creates a unique research environment.

Abant Izzet Baysal University is a unique university model in Turkey not for being a purely state university nor a foundation university but instead “a foundation supported state university”. This status enables the university to receive funds both from the government and the Izzet Baysal Foundation. The university with its perfect physical structure and high-technology equipment obtained in a short period of time with the investments of Izzet Baysal Foundation as well as opportunities provided by the State offers a modern and developed environment for its students. Izzet Baysal Foundation provides the successful students scholarship opportunities.

Abant Izzet Baysal University Gölköy Campus
Telephone: +90 374 254 1000
Fax : +90 374 253 45 06
Email: ibuweb@ibu.edu.tr

Aarhus School of Business

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:06:16 +0000

Aarhus School of Business is a part of University of Aarhus.

ASB focuses on the creation and development of enterprises and organisations.

An EQUIS accreditation places ASB among the best business schools worldwide and on a par with the London Business School, INSEAD in France and the University of Washington, USA. Moreover, ASB has more than 7,000 students, making it one of Europe’s largest accredited institutions.

Research
ASB currently comprises six academic departments:

Department of Management
Department of Marketing and Statistics
Department of Business Studies
Department of Language and Business Communication
Department of Law
Department of Economics

The research is in the process of being organised in centres, with the first three established:

Centre for Research on Customer Relations in the Food Sector (MAPP)
Centre for Corporate Performance (CCP)
Centre for Organizational Renewal and Evolution (CORE)

ASB employs 240 tenured researchers and lecturers. 165 persons primarily from the business community are employed as external lecturers. The administration comprises 240 employees. 65 PhD students are engaged in doctoral studies.

Education
ASB offers a wide range of study programmes and combinations at bachelor and master level.

12 per cent of our daytime students are from abroad.

Within the further education area we offer more and more study programmes, courses and conferences for employees and managers in enterprises and organisations.

ASB’s history

On September 15 2004, Aarhus School of Business (ASB) celebrated its 65th anniversary.

However, ASB’s predecessor, The Jutland Business School (Den Jyske Handelshøjskole, DJH), has a somewhat more extensive history. Already in the late 1800’s DJH provided business programmes to young people from Jutland who wished to take an education within business, economics and trade. Only when ASB was founded in 1939 did we become the academic institution that we are known as today.

Since the founding of ASB more than 65 years ago, we have grown and kept growing. In 1968 ASB moved from the original location down town Århus to the yellow buildings which since then have provided the setting for the outstanding research and teaching ASB stands for.

Today we are an EQUIS accredited business school, we have more than 7,000 students (a significant number of which are international students) and about 450 employees.

Aarhus School of Business
Fuglesangs Allé 4
DK – 8210 Aarhus V

Tel.: +45 89 48 66 88
Fax: +45 86 15 01 88

E-mail: asb@asb.dk

Aalborg University

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:02:24 +0000

At Aalborg University (AAU), we dare to be different!

A characteristic feature of AAU is the courage to follow new paths within research as well as education. As a result, AAU is one of Denmark’s leading universities in terms of uncovering innovative ways of cooperating with the surrounding world at a local as well as national and international level.

From the very beginning, AAU has adopted an inter-disciplinary, problem-oriented approach to research and education and is today one of the world’s leading universities within this method.

AAU offers approx 60 different study programmes and has close to 14,000 students.

History

Although Aalborg University was inaugurated in 1974, its history goes back to 1959 when the first thoughts about establishing a centre for higher education in Northern Jutland were aired by the principal of Aalborghus Statsgymnasium (a state upper secondary/high school in Aalborg), Carl Willum Hansen. He saw it as a problem that young people from Northern Jutland wanting to continue their education beyond high school had to leave the region for universities and other institutions of higher education in other parts of Denmark because of a lack of these kinds of educational institutions in Northern Jutland. Especially because most of the young people who left the region did not return to Northern Jutland after having finished their education somewhere else. In that way Northern Jutland became drained of an important part of its youth.

As a first step towards furthering higher education in Northern Jutland, a regional trade council (Nordjyllands Erhvervsråd) established a Committee for an Engineering Academy in 1961. The primary assignment of the committee was to establish a department of Denmark’s Engineering Academy (DIA) in Aalborg, and in 1966 it became a reality. Already in 1964, however, the committee stated a new and broader goal, namely the establishment of a university.

Throughout the latter part of the 1960s an increasing debate took place about the expansion and location of institutions of higher education in Denmark. Many associations, institutions and organisations in Northern Jutland worked energetically for the establishment of a university, and the idea received strong cross-party popular support. Advocates of a university in Northern Jutland represented executives from the local business community as well as from the social, cultural and political areas of society.

In 1974 a number of already existing educational institutions either entirely or partly became integrated into what was to be called Aalborg University Centre (AUC). The institutions that became integrated were: The Business Economics’ Department of the Business School of Aalborg (Handelshøjskolens afdeling i Aalborg); Denmark’s Engineering Academy’s Aalborg Department (Danmarks Ingeniørakademis Aalborgafdeling); The Engineering College of Aalborg (Aalborg Teknikum); and The School of Social Work of Aalborg (Den Sociale Højskole i Aalborg). In addition the Surveyor Educational Programme was transferred from The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen (Landbohøjskolen i København), and many other new educational programmes were initiated at AUC as well.

In 1994, Aalborg University Centre changed its name to Aalborg University (AAU), and in 1995 the cooperation between Aalborg University and the School of Engineering in the town of Esbjerg led to a merger of the two, resulting in what is today Aalborg University Esbjerg, encompassing the fields of Natural Sciences and Engineering. In 1996 the School of Architecture and Design was established under Aalborg University in Aalborg, and in 2003 Aalborg University inaugurated a branch in Copenhagen within media technology called Copenhagen Institute of Technology. This branch is physically located at Copenhagen University College of Engineering. As of September 2007, this branch also includes a Surveyor programme.

As the latest development so far, Aalborg University and the Danish Building Research Institute in Copenhagen merged in 2007 in order to combine their knowledge within building technology. Aalborg University will continue to develop its physical as well as academic scope in such a way that the University continues to be a modern and dynamic institution at the national as well as international level.

Facts and Figures

Students
Close to 14,000 students are enrolled at Aalborg University, ranging from students at preparatory courses through doctoral-level candidates. Of these, 12,5% are international students, coming from different countries around the world. Approximately 3,500 students are enrolled at the Faculty of Humanities, 4,600 students at the Faculty of Social Sciences and 5,500 at the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Medicine.

Faculty and Staff
Aalborg University employs approximately 1200 faculty and 800 administrative and technical staff.

Campuses
The main campus of Aalborg University is located in the southeastern part of Aalborg at Fibigerstræde, Pontoppidanstræde, Kroghstræde, Niels Jernes Vej and Fredrik Bajers Vej. Additionally, there are departments at Sohngaardsholmsvej, which houses parts of the Natural Science and Engineering programmes; downtown at Strandvejen, where parts of the Social Science programmes are located; and at Østeraagade, where the department of Architecture and Design is located. Finally, Aalborg University has a campus in the southwestern part of Denmark in the town of Esbjerg, where parts of the Natural Science, Engineering and Medicine programmes are located, and a department in Copenhagen at the campus of Copenhagen University College of Engineering, where yet other parts of the Natural Science and Engineering programmes are located.

Faculties
Aalborg University encompasses the following three faculties:

The Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Engineering, Science and Medicine

The three faculties offer in total 65 different educational programmes within four scientific fields; Humanities, Social Science, Natural Science, Engineering and Medicine, and have more than 40 programmes taught in English.

Degrees
Aalborg University awards Bachelors, Master’s, PhD and Doctoral degrees in various fields within the different programmes, institutes and centres. In 2005, 1,318 students thus received a Master’s degree and 106 students received a PhD degree.

Libraries
Aalborg University Library (Danish acronym: AUB) is a public research library. Its main function is to support and facilitate research and teaching at Aalborg University.

In 2004 Aalborg University Library’s collection contained close to 685,000 volumes and the library gave access to close to 19,000 electronic journals, close to 21,000 digital books and a great number of national and international databases. Close to 645,000 volumes and documents are circulated to library users every year, of which more than 390,000 are electronically downloaded documents. The library acquires approximately 19,000 new books annually.

Aalborg University Library furthermore offers its users tutorials in optimal information search and learning strategies. In 2004 3,125 users participated in these tutorials.

The main library is located at Langagervej 2 close to the main university campus. In addition there are four subject specific library branches located on the various campuses:

The Branch Library for Mathematics, Computer Science and Low Current Technique at Fredrik Bajers Vej
The Branch Library for Technology and Natural Science at Sohngaardsholmsvej
The Branch Library for Social Sciences and Technology (for 1st and 2nd semester students) at Strandvejen
Aalborg University Library, Esbjerg, at Niels Bohrs Vej, specialising in the subjects Chemistry, Applied Engineering and Software and Media.

Aalborg University · Fredrik Bajers Vej 5 · P.O. Box 159 · DK – 9100 Aalborg · Denmark · Phone +45 9940 9940 · aau@aau.dk

RWTH Aachen University

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:56:46 +0000

RWTH Aachen University is characterised by its strength in science and engineering education. It also provides a wide range of subjects in Economics, Arts and Humanities and Medicine with an emphasis on intensive interaction between all disciplines. The focus on interdisciplinarity in research and teaching is a direct response to the demands placed on future young professionals. Our University has co-operations with many universities and research centres throughout the world. Every year, a great number of international students and scientists visit RWTH Aachen University to study and research at a high standard recognised on an international level.

The following web pages will give you topical information and access to the structure and activities of RWTH Aachen University. They serve as a means of communication between the university and science and industry, as well as between the University and students or pupils interested in studying in Aachen. Furthermore, these pages provide direct access to members of the University.

RWTH Aachen University is the largest university of technology in Germany and one of the most renowned technical universities in Europe. It currently has around 28,000 enrolled students, most of them in the field of engineering. Every year, a large number of international students and scientists come to the University to benefit from its high-quality study programmes and excellent facilities, both of which are internationally recognised. Almost 5,000 international students are currently enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and PhD programmes.

The proximity of Aachen to the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg and its variety of cultural heritages has placed the University in a unique position for international collaboration with other educational and research institutions as well as with business and industry. Aachen’s unique location in the “Euregio” border region is apt to enhance and accelerate research activities and technology transfer between Germany, the neighbouring states of Belgium and the Netherlands and Europe at large.

RWTH Aachen University was founded as a polytechnical institute (Polytechnikum) in 1870 by an industrial initiative, in a then fringe area of the Prussian heavy industry. As early as 1899, it was granted the right to award doctoral degrees. Re-established after World War II as the Institute of Technology of North Rhine-Westphalia (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen) it soon obtained the status of a university. Within a period of forty years, students numbers increased from around one thousand to 38,000 students in the 1990s.

The rapid advance in the sciences and in engineering and the concomitant growth of the departments resulted in the creation of further faculties in engineering and the natural sciences. As early as the 1960s, the university met the increasing societal demands by expanding its range of degree courses. The Faculties of Arts and Humanities and Medicine were founded in the 1960s, followed by the Faculty of Business and Economics in the 1980s.

Teaching and research are characterised by an international, innovative, and interdisciplinary approach and a close cooperation with business and industry. The main educational objective of RWTH Aachen Universitys is to provide solid knowledge of the basic scientific subjects, including the ability to apply this knowledge to engineering problems, and a high level of expertise in the various fields of specialisation, fostering the students’ capabilities to transfer research results into economic and technical applications.

In addition, the intensive interaction between the various fields of study in teaching and research is a direct response to the demands placed on future young professionals. Our engineering professors usually hold leading positions in industry before they become faculty members, and other experts from industry teach special courses which enable students to benefit from their expertise in bringing technological know-how to market. RWTH Aachen University has a long history of close and wide-ranging co-operation with national and international research centres and industries and thus contributes to the success and development of the German economy, increasingly extending this role within the European Union.

Main Address

RWTH Aachen
Templergraben 55
52062 Aachen (physical address)
52056 (mailing address)
Germany
Phone: +49 241 80-1
Fax: +49 241 80-22100