It-vest – networking universities

It-vest, networking universities, is an educational and scientific network between the three universities in the western part of Denmark: Aalborg University, Aarhus University and University of Southern Denmark. It-vest particularly focuses on the development and marketing of IT educations as well as other IT activities at the three universities. Furthermore, It-vest supports nationwide activities, promoting IT educations and the development of IT in general. The activities of It-vest are among others: •Initiating the development and support of new IT education programs. •Branding tertiary IT educations in the western part of Denmark. •Increasing the number of IT graduates in Denmark. •Reinforcing the cooperation between existing educational and scientific settings. •Establishing cooperation between the universities and the corporate world regarding courses and research within IT. •Initiating the application of IT in teaching