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The agreement contains a number of items ranging from incorporating TREFOR's knowhow in the teaching at Design School Kolding to design professional development activities to internship agreements between TREFOR and Design School Kolding students.
- We have worked with Design School Kolding for a number of years and have experienced a great deal of synergy between our business and knowledge-based operations and the creative, research setting at Design School Kolding. We look forward to cultivating this collaboration further, says Knud Steen Larsen, CEO at TREFOR.
The agreement also means that the students at Design School Kolding will be allowed access to a number of specific cases which will give them hardcore professional experience.
- We see great potential for this collaboration. Our students can show TREFOR's engineers new and unconventional ways of thinking about processes, products and services, say Rector at Design School Kolding Elsebeth Gerner Nielsen who is very pleased with the agreement.
Time after time design thinking proves to be profitable for companies that, like TREFOR, dare unleash their creativity.
- We see it over an over again how design thinking makes companies more enterprising and therefore improves their comptetitive position, says Elsebeth Gerner Nielsen.
- Having someone challenge your work approach is always a positive thing, and with Design School Kolding on the team we believe that we will be able to create all-new and innovative solutions that will benefit our clients, says siger Knud Steen Larsen.
The first major project is a design professional collaboration involving Hospital Lillebælt. The project focuses on the development of new, welfare techonological solutions and TREFOR's recent acquisition, the company Medisat A/S, will play a key role.
The partnership agreement between Design School Kolding and TREFOR is a three-year agreement.
