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No further scrutiny of the financial issues involved in the case<\/h2>\n
The settlement with the leadership of the Qatar Museum Authority is a result of the legwork done by the leadership of the Faculty of Humanities.<\/p>\n
\u00bbI repeatedly talked to them,\u00ab said Faculty Director Kristian Boye Petersen. \u00bbLast time when we were down there in July, the settlement offer was about DKK 6 million.\u00ab <\/p>\n
Kristian Boye Petersen said that with the settlement where Qatar pays DKK 15 million UCPH ends further scrutiny of the financial issues involved in the Al Zubarah excavation. <\/p>\n
According to Kristian Boye Petersen, UCPH\u2019s financial headache regarding Al Zubarah was the result of \u00bba significant change in the governance in Qatar in 2014.\u00ab <\/p>\n
\u00bbThe project was squeezed by a new economic reality in Qatar. Whereas a trusting relationship was possible before, today there is a new leadership with another agenda for the museum\u2019s finances in the Gulf state. It has changed from a culture of informal agreements, where they used to completely honor informal agreements, to another form of governance, where they do not to the same degree honor the previous informal agreements, and in the midst of that transformation, we as a faculty have lost cover for part of our expenses,\u00ab said Kristian Boye Petersen according to a press release about the settlement between UCPH and Qatar. <\/p>\n
The Department would have been devastated<\/h2>\n
It has been unknown for a long time how the loss for the Qatar project would be covered. It was a real possibility that the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (CCRS) would have to foot the bill of DKK 24 million all by itself. <\/p>\n
\u00bbTo cover the total amount of DKK 24 million would have been quite devastating for the Department,\u00ab says Kristian Boye Petersen.<\/p>\n
He has ‘no comment’ regarding the question of whether the Al Zubarah case will have consequences for the CCRS Department Head Ingolf Thuesen.<\/p>\n
If UCPH in the future decides to make agreements about excavations in Qatar, the University will make sure to ask for \u00bbmoney up front,\u00ab said Kristian Boye Petersen. <\/p>\n
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UCPH has now managed to settle the dispute and in the process save DKK 15 million. The Department that was responsible for the issue will cover expenses amounting to DKK 3 million.","use_post_excerpt":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":false,"contributors":[{"use_registered_user":false,"user":false,"contributor_name":"Christoffer Zieler","contributor_title":" ","contributor_image":false}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>The Qatar scandal will cost the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) DKK 9 million after the university agreed to a settlement. <\/p>\n<p>The bill has been split in three, the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (CCRS) who were tasked with the excavation and research in Qatar, will pay DKK 3 million, the Faculty of Humanities will pay 3 million and UCPH will pay 3 million from its collective account. <\/p>\n<p>This is according to Faculty Director Kristian Boye Petersen at the Faculty of Humanities, who was tasked with trying to recuperate as much money as possible for UCPH. <\/p>\n<h2>Qatar would not pay the bills from UCPH<\/h2>\n<p>The background story is that UCPH in the period between 2009-2014 were tasked with conducting archeological excavations in Qatar in the lost city Al Zubarah, a location that was declared as a world heritage site by UNESCO in 2013. In terms of research it was quite a feather in UCPH’s cap. <\/p>\n<p>The Intention was that the work would go on for 10 years, but in the beginning of 2015 UCPH pulled the plug on the project because the University’s partners in Qatar had neglected to pay bills amounting to DKK 24 million. <\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, it was revealed that UCPH had for a longer period of time not taken the measure of securing itself by getting approved contracts in advance for the work done in Qatar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dme-external-teaser dme-external-teaser-3\">\n<div class=\"image\">\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/universitetsavisen.dk\/node\/32790\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/old_files\/al_zubarah_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div class=\"label\">L\u00e6s mere:<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/universitetsavisen.dk\/node\/32790\">DKK 24 million unpaid bill stops historical excavation<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser_text\">\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>No further scrutiny of the financial issues involved in the case<\/h2>\n<p>The settlement with the leadership of the Qatar Museum Authority is a result of the legwork done by the leadership of the Faculty of Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI repeatedly talked to them,\u00ab said Faculty Director Kristian Boye Petersen. \u00bbLast time when we were down there in July, the settlement offer was about DKK 6 million.\u00ab <\/p>\n<p>Kristian Boye Petersen said that with the settlement where Qatar pays DKK 15 million UCPH ends further scrutiny of the financial issues involved in the Al Zubarah excavation. <\/p>\n<p>According to Kristian Boye Petersen, UCPH\u2019s financial headache regarding Al Zubarah was the result of \u00bba significant change in the governance in Qatar in 2014.\u00ab <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe project was squeezed by a new economic reality in Qatar. Whereas a trusting relationship was possible before, today there is a new leadership with another agenda for the museum\u2019s finances in the Gulf state. It has changed from a culture of informal agreements, where they used to completely honor informal agreements, to another form of governance, where they do not to the same degree honor the previous informal agreements, and in the midst of that transformation, we as a faculty have lost cover for part of our expenses,\u00ab said Kristian Boye Petersen according to a press release about the settlement between UCPH and Qatar. <\/p>\n<h2>The Department would have been devastated<\/h2>\n<p>It has been unknown for a long time how the loss for the Qatar project would be covered. It was a real possibility that the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (CCRS) would have to foot the bill of DKK 24 million all by itself. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbTo cover the total amount of DKK 24 million would have been quite devastating for the Department,\u00ab says Kristian Boye Petersen.<\/p>\n<p>He has ‘no comment’ regarding the question of whether the Al Zubarah case will have consequences for the CCRS Department Head Ingolf Thuesen.<\/p>\n<p>If UCPH in the future decides to make agreements about excavations in Qatar, the University will make sure to ask for \u00bbmoney up front,\u00ab said Kristian Boye Petersen. <\/p>\n<p>chz@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":45,"name":"International","slug":"international","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":45,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":315,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11492,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vase.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30852,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/30852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/old_files\/al_zubarah_0.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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