Merger: The New Forest & Landscape - 02.02.2012

The Faculty of Life Sciences and The Faculty of Science will, from the 1st of January 2012, be merged into the new Faculty of Science.  Several institutes and units will be changing name  – including Forest & Landscape, which will be merging with the Department of Geography and Geology. 
 

For the time being the new institute’s name will be “Department of Geoscience, Natural Resources and Planning”. The Danish name is not yet in place, but the English title provides a very good view into the institutes primary fields of activity.
Forest & Landscapes division for “Economics, Policy and Planning”, which today has about 50 employees, will from 2012 become a part of a new institute “Department of Resource Economics”.

 

At the same time a National Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning will be established to undertake tasks in relation to consultancy to the authorities and secure cooperation between the new institutes.

 

New Possibilities

Gertrud Jørgensen has been constituted director for Forest & Landscape for 2012. The previous director, Niels Elers Koch, has been constituted dean for the new Faculty  of Science.

Gertrud Jørgensen comes from a position as Head of Research, Head of Department and Professor in urban development. Here is a short resume of her comments about the change:

“The biggest change for the ‘old’ Forest & Landscape is that we are split into two new institutes. Research and consultancy within the centre’s fields of expertise will now be conducted through the new national centre, operating across the new institute. On the other hand we do have new possibilities. We are looking forward to being able to exploit and integrate research and teaching within the disciplines of geography  and urban planning. And especially within the climate area, the new institute has been given the possibility of combining disciplines in quite a different way.”

 

2012 – a year of transition

The merger will, at the latest, take effect from the 1. January 2013. 2012 is a transitional year, where we have to remix the whole organization, harmonize the financial systems, get new units in place and establish a common address.

 

Information on the new organisation and the new institutes (in Danish).

 

Merger of Faculties The University of Copenhagen is divided into six faculties, each led by a dean. The faculties are professional and administrative communities on research and education. They are very different with regards to areas of expertise, internal structure and size. A faculty is subdivided into institutes, departments and research centres.   By January 1st 2012 University of Copenhagen has decided to merge the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE) and the Faculty of Science into a new Faculty of Science. Similarly, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Faculty of Health Sciences and the veterinary field at the Faculty of Life Sciences are merged into the new Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.   Find out more about the merger at the University of Copenhagen