Danish - US Bilateral Commission
ACCT recently joined an effort by the Danish and US governments to strengthen career and technical education programs and support the formation of partnerships between American Community Colleges and Danish Technical and Business Colleges. The commission is administered jointly by the US Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, and the Ministry of Education, Denmark. AACC and CCID are also members of the commission.
Danish business and technical colleges perform in Denmark much the same functions that technical and professional training programs perform at the US community college. While a number of Danish students travel each year to the United States, many less US students go to Denmark. The goal of this visit is to introduce US faculty, trustees and administrators to their Danish counterparts, in order that they may return to their campuses as ambassadors to recruit US students for exchanges. It is anticipated that colleges will establish long term relationships with their Danish counterparts, leading to summer programs, semester to year long exchanges, faculty sharing and internships.
The US commission members are expected to visit to Denmark in March / April 2008 to continue the dialogue.