On Monday the 5th of December the minister for education visited Copenhagen Business Academy to have a look at the new business academy sector. It was a couple interesting hours 

with a presentation of the academy, a roundtable discussion and a tour of the Open Learning Center at Julius Thomsens Plads where Morten Østergaard met students, entrepreneurs and business partners from abroad. 

In the roundtable discussion there where also employee and student representatives from the academy's board and chairmen from the educational committees in the mercantile areas. The minister was pleased to learn about the academy's close cooperation with the private sector and the on-going dialogue with companies through internships, main projects and other relations. 

Furthermore there was a lot of focus on the academy's work for innovation and entrepreneurship, where the economic basis for developing incubation communities was discussed along with the international dimension in the academy's programmes. 

Finally the minister promised to both look into the barriers that can occur between the academy's programmes and the university programmes, when our graduates want to continue their studies, and the possibility of streamlining the many educational terms.  

The educational minister was welcomed by Managing Director of Copenhagen 
Business Academy, Ole Gram-Olesen.

Managing Director Ole Gram-Olesen presented Copenhagen Business Academy
for the minister and his top officials 

After the presentation there was a roundtable discussion where several topics 
regarding the academy and the business academy sector were discussed  

Teacher and employee representative, Jan-Christian Haxthausen informed
the minister Morten Østergaard and his officials of the pedagogical foundation
at Copenhagen Business Academy 

After the presentation of the academy and roundtable discussion the minister 
was given at tour of the school 

Educational minister Morten Østergaard met financiel management students
and heard about their current project 

Educational minister Morten Østergaard and chairman og the board Ernst Lykke Nielsen
hear about the incubational environment at Copenhagen Business Academy, where
Jesper M. Kristensen talks about his and Natascha Hoffmann Müllers company BookBazar
which arranges the sales of used educational books. Jesper and Natascha are both
students on the PBA in International Sales and Marketing Management and from
January they both start an internship in their own company