2006-05-10

NOVA Prize winners (!) 2006
The NOVA University Network have the great pleasure to announce that
Professor Thomas Barfoed Randrup, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, KVL and Landscape architect and Research assistant Ulrika Åkerlund, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, have both been awarded The NOVA Prize 2006. The prize money is 2000 euro each.

Nominations
"Since 2001 Professor Thomas Barfoed Randrup has co-ordinated and led the establishment of a NOVA Network within UFUG, aiming to create a cross-disciplinary network consisting of primarily Landscape Architects and Foresters. Through his contribution to the development of the landscape architecture and forestry educational programs he has actively contributed to make a difference at both Master and PhD level. This has been for the benefit of the NOVA University Network, for the Nordic and International students, and ultimately the benefit of future planning and management of urban green areas."

"We hereby want to suggest this years NOVA price to landscape architect and research assistant Ulrika Åkerlund for her work of implementing ideas and concepts to a functioning Nordic Master’s program: UFUG. Ulrika Åkerlund is a bridge-builder between forestry and landscape architecture, between SLU and KVL and the other Nordic countries, in order to establish this Nordic programme at SLU." "The practical work of implementing these ideas implies the ability to work with integrating different interests within different subjects, such as urban forestry, biology, ecology, geography, town planning and architecture."