The location of our department, the city of Aarhus, is not widely known and not easy to reach from abroad. Nevertheless, it is an attractive place to work and live and we wish to expose our department and the city even more to potential faculty and collaborators.
We will do so by attracting more premier international research conferences, workshops, PhD courses, and summer schools to the department in Aarhus. And by offering attractive conditions, in terms of support and facilities, to visiting scholars we wish to increase the number of international visitors who could be potential faculty members.
We could increase the number of faculty who engage in the national political dialogue on relevant subjects, for instance under the auspice of ATV and other boards. This would contribute not only to better informed decisions but also to a broader political knowledge of computer science in general, and of our department more specifically.
Another focus area will be to improve our efforts on putting forward eligible CS candidates for positions of trusts and on boards of relevant foundations.
We may consider participation in national initiatives to attend activities at the Ministry’s Innovation Centers around the world, e.g. in Boston, Silicon Valley, Shanghai, to create more awareness.
In order to create awareness and broaden the knowledge of computer science amongst the general public, we should increase our participation in events and debates targeted to the general public, like Open University (Folkeuniversitetet) and Public Lectures in Natural Sciences (OFN), the latter reaching an audience of more than 25000, all over Denmark.
We already have some good experience with this however, to cover more topics – and events – we would need more faculty members to engage in these tasks.
