Value statement and strategy

CIP’s raison d’être is to promote and support UCPH’s policy of parallel language use, which since 2008 has been an integral part of its strategic goal of developing an internationally diverse university.

In order to realise this goal, CIP operates according to a mission statement that requires all activities to:

• Be based on the perspective of the users, whether they are individuals, an academic group or an administrative unit.
• Consider the individual first and foremost, and focus on their perceptions of linguistic issues.
• Seek to remove linguistic barriers in order to ensure equal opportunities and conditions for staff and students.
• Be developed as close as possible to the situation in which they are most relevant and achieve the greatest effect.
• Be organised based on the function they need to fulfil, regardless of whether this may go against the grain of foreign language acquisition traditions.

CIP and the UCPH Strategy 2030

CIP's activities are aimed at realising the university’s most recent set of strategic goals:  UCPH Strategy 2030: Contribution to society through excellence.

Given the value statement and view of language learning that form the basis of all of CIP's acitvities, CIP can contribute to make UCPH to the best place for the best ideas by supporting development, cooperation and inclusion through linguistic competences and multilingualism. In this way, CIP's work also support the UCPH Strategic framework on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Furthermore, CIP is working on the development of innovative solutions and on offering workshops and other lifelong learning activities on language use and internationalisation for the multilingual international workplace. 

You can find more information on CIP's strategic work in the boxes to the right.