Via University College of Denmark
Established in January 2008, Via University College of Denmark is one of the largest universities of applied sciences and has headquarters in Aarhus, with its education and research activities anchored in 8 campuses across 39 locations in 7 cities of Denmark. It is the third largest educational institution following Copenhagen University and Aarhus University with approximately 2,000 employees and 20,000 students. The University offers more than 50 higher education programs in Danish language and a number of courses in English.
VIA is engaged in various international research and development projects, some as the leading Institute and others as a Partner. VIA’s partners are the reputed California State University East Bay, Edinburgh Napier University and the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. VIA is partnering with Erasmus (Life-Long Learning Programme, Erasmus Mundus, Leonardo da Vinci, EU – Australia, DK – USA/Canada and Tempus. VIA’s research areas include Health and welfare technology, Pedagogy and education, Management, organisation and social sciences, Built environment, energy, water and climate, Creative industries and professions, Innovation and entrepreneurship and Quality of education, profession policy and practice.
All their funded projects are well known for their interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial settings, yet always rooted within the educational fields of VIA's Faculties and Schools. VIA’s annual turnover is 1.6 billion DKK.
VIA co-manages the Horizon 2020 project, an EU project for ethical dimensions of rationing of nursing care, with 28 EU and International countries participating.
For the third time in five years, 2014, 2018 and 2019, VIA has been awarded Entrepreneurial Educational Institution of the Year by the Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship. The honour is a recognition of VIA’s focus on making innovation and entrepreneurship part of the students’ DNA on all of VIA’s more than 40 different professional bachelor programmes and “entrepreneurship” being a key word in VIA's student incubator and overall strategy.
VIA has been selected to equip library employees with co-creational skills in Oppland County, Norway. The two yearlong project has just begun
.VIA’s academic sessions start in February and September
