Rasmus Kjærboe is a PhD student of art history at AU, where he examines early 20^th century private art collections, which have developed into public museums. In concluding his project, Rasmus intends to spend the money from the travelling scholarship on a research trip to the USA.

The USA is the epitome of an art collector´s paradise. It is a country where one has the chance of seeing not only entirely new ways of displaying and using art, but also the greatest variations in historical and contemporary museums alike. Furthermore, a research stay in the US will provide me with a unique opportunity to meet influential scientists, and gain access to important libraries and scientific institutions, including the museological department at New York University. I hope my stay abroad will provide me with useful new insights and new approaches to a research area which has been of major importance to the institutions that we have today, as well as to our very understanding of art, he says.

Lars Frølund focuses on strategies and management

In his PhD project, Lars Frølund (Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation) investigates the strategic and managerial conditions for successful collaboration between universities and large corporations. With this purpose, Lars Frølund has made an agreement with a large, international corporation, which has one of the world´s most highly developed program for collaboration with universities.

The corporation has allowed me to perform qualitative studies of its collaboration with universities such as MIT and UC Berkeley. This is quite a unique opportunity, which includes research stays in Munich and the USA, where I am to follow the managers that negotiate new innovative projects with the universities that the corporation collaborates with, Lars Frølund explains.