Through the past year, Aalborg Municipality has brought focus to the goal of being the best educational city in Denmark. Accordingly, the 50,000 pupils, apprentices and students have been a strong presence, not only in the townscape, where they make up 1/5 of the citizens in the municipality but also in relation to the rapid development of Aalborg through the past 10 years. It is a development that the Municipality value very highly and wish to continue.

Long-term goals for Aalborg is to be the city where it is easiest to get an internship, a student job, a cooperation with the business community and a job on completion of studies - In Aalborg, you can make use of what you learn…

In the first episode of One Day in Demark we are talking with Lasse Frimand Jensen. He is the City Council Member (Social Democrats), Chairman of the Educational Council and Project Leader at the International House of Northern Denmark.

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Useful links for further research:

City of Aalborg Educational Strategy 2019-2022: http://www.studyaalborg.com/media/1456/engelsk-uddannelsesstrategi-2019-2022.pdf
Study Aalborg: http://www.studyaalborg.com
International House of Northern Denmark: https://ihnd.dk/