Open University

One task in the EuroTeQ Engineering University, WP4 Ideate the professional, is to list the current habits and make recommendations concerning the concept of Open University, which means the university's interaction with its industry partners. 

To do so, we have gathered, by discussion, interviews, and questionnaires, information about the existing practices in each university and tried to identify the main constitutive principles and their potential development or organization at the European level. 

We identified three main directions for these interactions: 

• Outreach, where, in addition to a well-established interaction with industry, we consider the exposition and transfer of cultural and scientific contents from universities to industry actors, society and the general public. 
• Advising, as participation of stakeholders to the different governing and advisory boards and 
• Cross participation is how external industry actors contribute to teaching and training and how students contribute to or integrate into the economic life of industry and services (lifelong learning aside). 

This aspect of lifelong learning is to be treated in companion work packages. The present document presents the outcomes for each of these three directions. 

Leading university: Technical University of Denmark (DTU).