For anyone who has been through the dreaded Copenhagen room-hunt, a campus with dorms of 2,000 rooms sounds like a fairy tale.<\/p>\n
Now, a private think tank is making preliminary plans for just such a giant dormitory and research environment. The aim is to attract and retain young, talented internationals in Denmark.<\/p>\n
\u00bbInternational students live in different places throughout the city. There is no central place for them. Also there are not enough rooms for internationals, especially since existing legislation means that 90 per cent of dorm rooms go to Danish students,\u00ab explains Anette Galskj\u00f8t, from Thinktanktalent, the organisation behind the campus project.<\/p>\n
\u00bbWe want to integrate international students, while still at the university, and keep them in Denmark,\u00ab she explains. <\/p>\n
\u00bbWe want to create an attractive living environment. We hope to attract the clever and the fun people to Denmark\u00ab<\/p>\n
A campus would also give Danes the experience of living in an international environment, something that they are not necessarily accustomed to at the moment, she explains. <\/p>\n
However, this is not just a way to make overseas students feel more at home. As ever, the bottom line is what counts, this time on a national level:<\/p>\n
\u00bbAs well as the human international perspective, there is also the hardcore economics. We need foreign workers,\u00ab says Anette Galskj\u00f8t.<\/p>\n
\u00bbDanish demography is increasingly dominated by older people outside the workforce. There is a need for foreign students and workers. Danes haven\u2019t really grasped that we need resources from abroad, otherwise society will go belly up,\u00ab she explains. <\/p>\n
The planned campus would not only house international and Danish students.<\/p>\n
It would also accommodate researchers, PhD students, and young graduate trainees from international companies such as M\u00e6rsk and Carlsberg.<\/p>\n
Such trainees, who are in Denmark for months, live in hotels at the moment, and have therefore limited contact with Danes and other young people.<\/p>\n
Possible locations for the campus are the brewery Carlsberg’s large areas in Valby, Nordhavn and \u00d8restad.<\/p>\n
Financially speaking, the University of Copenhagen\u2019s contribution is modest, at DKK 50,000.<\/p>\n
However, the university has assisted with extensive knowledge of the problems international students and researchers face when seeking housing in the city, and is looking forward to the results of the initial study:<\/p>\n
\u00bbWe want this project to be rooted in reality. It is a strength for the university to attract international students and researchers. Of course, the largest university in Denmark supports the campus idea. We don\u2019t know what will come out of it, but if it works out, it is to our advantage,\u00ab says Thomas M\u00f8ller Kristensen from the university\u2019s Campus Planning & Building department. \t<\/p>\n
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