It should be a place where it is exciting and pleasing to be, a place where knowledge and quality are developed for everyone's benefit. Those who find themselves within the university should, during the course of their time there, grow to be more knowledgeable persons, persons who can make the knowledge of others into their own, and persons who can contribute to the development of knowledge which no one else has previously had. This naturally should include the possibility for their own growth as persons. The university should take responsibility for its students and employees, the students and employees should take responsibility for their university. Teaching supports individual learning, where students acquire new knowledge and skills, new ways of seeing, experiencing and handling completely or partially new problems and situations, which are impossible to define or anticipate in advance.
Research means to develop new knowledge, and thus to widen what humanity knows.
We call this learning on the collective level, through which the ability of humanity to see in a new way, to experience and to handle unknown problems and unknown situations, is advanced. Individual and collective learning are two related forms of knowledge formation , where the relationship between research and teaching can be found. Today the focus is on knowledge on the individual level and on the collective level. And in the future, this should be complemented with a greater interest for how such knowledge is formed. This means that the structure, organisation and mechanisms of research will receive special attention within all fields of knowledge.