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Move — The future administration at the University of Copenhagen is taking shape — but full implementation will take at least two years.
The next few years will lead to a large-scale relocation of staff due to the upcoming administration reform. At the end of 2024, the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) management released a comprehensive plan on KUnet that outlined how administration units will be distributed. The first staff are expected to move by the spring of 2025.
Outline of future locations for administration units
The preliminary plan specifies the future locations of the three campus administrations and the central administration units:
Campus Administration Frederiksberg+: Will be in the main building on Bülowsvej along with the Faculty of Science management. Some units will be located at Nordre Sti and in the Abildgaard House.
Campus Administration North: Most staff will move to the Panum building complex, but with some units in Universitetsparken.
Campus Administration South: Most units will be consolidated in building section SC1, while the building department and the IT support centre will be housed in SC2.
Central administrative units: Most will be located in the central administration buildings off Frue Plads. UCPH-IT and parts of UCPH’s education administration will move to South Campus.
»We need to establish good physical frameworks for administrative functions and ensure that campus administrations, in particular, are located as close to the users as possible,« says University Director Søren Munk Skydsgaard.
The relocation process, which will take at least two years, will require temporary solutions at the outset. Some employees will not be placed with their new colleagues right away.
»The managers of the new administration units will play an important role in fostering a sense of community and ensuring that everyone feels included – despite the physical challenges,« says Søren Munk Skydsgaard.
University management will make a final decision on the plan in January. Detailed timelines and budget plans will be worked out then.
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The presented plan outlines only the broad strokes of the relocation. Details, such as where each individual staff member will be placed, will be decided locally by the administration units once the plan is approved.
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Karen Dilling, Deputy Director for Campus Service, stresses the importance of staff input in the planning process and explains that specific needs will be considered.
»Besides the hard data, our guiding principle has been that all teams within an administration department should be located as close to each other as possible, and that only a few academic staff and technical-administrative staff outside the scope of the administration reform should be relocated to make room for the new units,« says Karen Dilling.
The relocation plan for administrative functions is to be coordinated with another big task: the relocation of the Faculty of Social Sciences from City Campus to South Campus.
The move aims to reduce the university’s overall use of space while strengthening collaboration between faculties at South Campus — something that has been hotly contested in the University Post.
The Faculty of Social Sciences will be housed in buildings SC2 and SC3, alongside the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Theology, and parts of the Faculty of Humanities.
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