University of Southern Denmark
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The Syddansk Universitet ( German: University of Southern Denmark, English: University of Southern Denmark, SDU acronym ) is the third largest university in Denmark. It arose from the union of Odense Universitet, Handelshøjskole Syd / Syd Ingeniørhøjskole and the Sydjysk Universitetscenter 1998.
The University has a campus in each Odense, Slagelse, Esbjerg, Kolding and Sonderburg (Danish: Sønderborg ), as well as an Institute in Copenhagen with a total of almost 22,700 students (as of 2011). The university has
- A liberal arts,
- A social science,
- A medical,
- A scientific and
- A technical faculty.
In 2008, the University employed 2,882 employees, including 1,617 scientists. The revenues of the university amounted to 2.059 billion crowns; expenditure 2.0779 billion crowns.
Campus Odense
The complex of buildings in the south of the city of Odense is the actual nucleus of the University of Southern Denmark. The Odense Universitet was built as the third full university in Denmark since the 1960s. All five faculties are represented here, including the Center for Journalism. Apart from the technical all faculties are housed in a single, repeatedly extended large-scale building. Characteristic is the architecturally so willed, rusted facade of externally sober functional building.
The campus is enlarged in the coming years by about 40% in order to integrate the medical and technical faculty correctly. At the same time the new Odense University Hospital is built on the area south of the university until 2015, so that a close connection between research and practice is still possible. The resulting complex will be connected by rail with the 5 km away from the city center of Odense.
Library Odense
To build a library in 1968 was purchased by the Foundation of the boarding Herlufsholm to Næstved the large and famous local library of over 40,000 volumes, whose foundation was laid in 1565 by the Danish naval hero Admiral Herluf humanists and trolls.
Campus Sønderborg
The campus of the SDU in Sønderborg was first at the Grundtvig Allé and was used until the early 1990s as an elementary school, so most of the rooms were quite small.
Since the winter semester 2007, the University at Alsion, a new building complex on the west bank of Als Sound, home. The independent until 2003, since then the University affiliated institution for Grænseregionsforskning moved in January 2007 Alsion after it in Aabenraa had his seat before 30 years. The train station from Sonderborg is integrated into the building complex. Mads Clausen ( Danfoss) has its own research institute at the University and supports them financially with a fund. In Alsion there are two works of art by Olafur Eliasson.
Campus Slagelse
The Institute for Management and corporate strategy, and the Institute for Language and Communication offer here a number of training with direct reference to economic activity. The campus is located in Slagelse in a building directly at the city train station, making it excellent connections to the public transport network.
Cooperation with the University of Flensburg
Since 1991 there is a close cooperation between the SDU and the University of Flensburg, where the University of Southern Denmark maintains an office. This collaboration was born from the cooperation with the International Institute of Management, University of Flensburg and primarily affects the bachelor and master programs in International Management and Management Studies at the Flensburg site, which can be completed with a Danish-German double degree. Furthermore, the universities cooperate in the courses BASK ( culture and language mediators ) and the English-speaking European Studies, in the latter of the bachelor's degree program in Sønderborg and the Master in Flensburg takes place.