1. art and entertainment
2. comics and animation
3. cartoons

Conference on exploring
Indo-Danish cooperation in culture,
education and science
- Co-creating sustainable solutions for the
future
PROGRAM
Tuesday 24th February 14.00 – 18.00 hours
Asia House
Indiakaj 16, 2100 Copenhagen Ø
Invited audience
Invited are representatives from:
 Institutions and key actors in INDIA TODAY – Copenhagen
Tomorrow (arts, culture, higher education, sciences)
 Universities, cultural institutions and other key actors in
Denmark with existing or potential interest in India
Moderator Mr. Kenneth Agerholm
Developed by: Danish Cultural Institute in collaboration i.a. with
Holck-Larsen Foundation, Danish Innovation Center in India, Asia House,
M-fonden, Copenhagen Business School, University of Copenhagen,
Technical University of Denmark, University of Aarhus, Roskilde University,
Danish Architecture Center, partners in International Cultural Panel & the
participating Indian universities & cultural institutions.
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Objectives
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Celebrating the close of INDIA TODAY – Copenhagen Tomorrow
Taking stock of current status of cooperation in culture, education and
science in order to move forward.
Address challenges and opportunities for Indo-Danish cooperation in
relation to the UN Post 2015 Agenda and co-creating sustainable
solutions for the future.
Creating dialogue through workshops on Indo-Danish co-creation in
culture, education and science. Where and how can co-creation make a
difference for sustainable solutions for the future?
Articulating directions for how to move forward.
Program
13.30-14.00 Arrivals and registration
14.00-14.20 Formal Opening by:
 Mr. Michael Metz Mørch, DCI Secretary General
 Mr. Steen Lassen, Holck-Larsen Foundation Chair
14.20-15.00 Opening address: Co-creating sustainable solutions for the future:
Exploring Indo-Danish cooperation in culture, education and
science:
 Prof. Flemming Besenbacher, Chair Carlsberg Foundation: Cocreating sustainable solutions for the future – a Danish
perspective.
 Prof. R.B. Singh, Head of Geography, University of Delhi, Pres.
Int’ Geography Union: Urban Health and Sustainability in India
 Ms. Arundhati Ghosh, Executive Director, India Foundation for
the Arts.
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15.00-15.30 Break for coffee/tea
15.20-15.30 Musical Danish-Indo fusion performance by Mr. Lars Møller & musicians
from Aarhus Jazz Orchestra.
15.30-17.00 Workshops on Indo-Danish co-creation in culture, education and science
Introduction to 11 Indian and Danish resource persons in workshops on
Indo-Danish co-creation in culture, education and science (please see the
list of participants)
Workshop 1st round – 7 tentative groups
Question to groups:
What concrete ideas for collaboration between Denmark and India do you see?
What other potential ideas collaboration do you see, which is not developed?
What are the 1-2 two ideas to be reported in plenary (all will be documented),
who will report?
a) Facilitating arts and cultural cooperation (Ms. Arundhati Ghosh,
Moderator: Mr. Olaf Gerlach-Hansen)
b) Arts and culture education and youth (Ms. Supriti, Moderator: Mr.
Nils-Georg Lundberg)
c) Dance, drama, music etc. (Ms. Prathibha Prahlad, Mr. Nitin Chandy.
Moderator: Mr. Jesper Boysen)
d) Film and media (Ms. Nidhi Sharma)
e) Higher education and science (outreach, culture, business) (Dr.
Annapurna Vancheswaran. Moderator: Prof. Mr. Sudhanshu Rai)
f) Higher education and science (technology/natural science
dimension) (Prof. S.K. Koul. Moderator: Mr. Michael Metz Mørch)
g) Higher education and science (social, human and health science
dimension. (Prof. R.B. Singh, Moderator: Prof. Ms. Ravinder Kaur)
OBS: Above titles of groups are tentative and may be re-configured
if found desirable in preparations made day before conference with
Indian resource persons.
16.10-16.15 Reorganizing of groups
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Workshop 2nd round – same groups + questions, new participants.
Conference participants who in first round chose a cultural domain (a-d) are
in second round requested to choose an educational domain (e-g) and vise
versa.
16.40-17.00 Break for coffee/tea
17.00-18.00 Plenary closing session
Statements from group sessions – by resource persons
Closing remarks from:
Dr. Annaurna Vanchasweran, Director Outreach TERI
Ms. Supriti, SPIC MACAY
Prof. S.K. Koul, Deputy Director, IIT Delhi
17.45-18.00 Closing remarks: Mr. Mogens Jensen: Danish Minister of Trade and
Development Cooperation.
18.00
CLOSE
The program is subject to change.
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Biographies of participants presented in the program
Professor R.B. Singh is a professor and the Head of Geography
Department at the University of Delhi. He is also President for
The International Geographic Union, and has a long-standing
collaboration with the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. R.B.
Singh’s main area of expertise lies within the world of
geography and sustainability.
Professor Annapurna Vancheswaran works at the Sustainable
Development Outreach Division at The Energy and resources
Institute (TERI). She leads the team in the area of developing
communication strategies on environment and development.
Professor S.K. Koul is the Deputy Director for strategy and
planning at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is also a
Chair Professor at the Centre for Applied Research in
Electronics, and responsible for establishing collaborations
between education- and research institutions and
organizations.
Ms. Supriti is the immediate past Vice President at the Society
for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture among
Youth, SPIC MACAY, where she volunteered her time with
raising funds and organizing concerts by eminent artists in
schools and colleges all over India.
Mr. Nitin Chandy is the co-founder and managing Director at
the True School of Music in Mumbai, which is India's first,
comprehensive professional institute of contemporary music
that prepares and empowers students for a career in music. He
also works as a Home & Pro Audio Consultant and a Freelance
Mix Engineer.
Ms. Prathibha Prahlad is a dancer and the Festival Director at
Delhi International Arts Festival, which is one of the most
famous arts festivals in India. She is also Head of the Prasiddha
Foundation and the Forum for Arts Beyond Borders. She has a
post graduate degree in Mass Communication and English
Literature.
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Ms. Nidhie Sharma is a filmmaker and author living in Mumbai.
She has recently published the book “Dancing with Demons”,
which has become an instant bestseller. She has studied
filmmaking and screenwriting at New York University and has
previously graduated with honors in English Literature.
Ms. Arundhati Ghosh is the Executive Director at the India
Foundation
forsustainability
the Arts a national, not-for-profit, grant-making
geography and
organization that supports practice, research and education in
the arts in India. She has an Economics degree from Presidency
College, a Post-graduation in management from Mudra
Institute of Communication and a Master’s degree in classical
dance. She is also a published poet in Bangla.
Professor Sudhanshu Rai, Associate Professor of innovation in
emerging economies, the faculty of intercultural comm.unication and management, CBS. Research areas: innovation in
emerging economies, Co-creation of innovation for sustainable
future markets, Institutional logics, Indian reasoning.
and is a published poet in Bangla
Professor
Kaur, Associate Professor, Department of
geography Ravinder
and sustainability
Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.
She is currently working on the research project "Nation in
Motion: Globalisation, Development and Governance in ‘New
India'"
Mr. Steen Lassen, international corporate lawyer and
arbitrator. He is amongst other chairmanships chairman for the
HolckLarsen Foundation, and he has taken the initiative for a
number of socially relevant projects, including India Today Copenhagen Tomorrow.
Mr. Flemming Besenbacher, D.Sc. Academician, amongst many
other chairman of the Board of Directors at Carlsberg A/S and
the Carlsberg Foundation. He is also a Professor of Nanoscience
and Physics. The Foundation provides support for Danish
research, Danish art and art history.
Mr. Mogens Jensen, Minister for Trade and Development
Cooperation from February 3rd 2014. He is also Vice-chairman
of the Social Democratic Party and former spokesman for
culture and media.
Mr. Kenneth Agerholm , co- founder of innovation and
facilitator bureau Agerholm:Consult. He has facilitated,
designed and project managed more than 150 conferences,
workshops, and seminars on innovation, sustainability,
leadership, creativity and business strategy. He is also an
international jazz artist.
Mr. Michael Metz Mørch, Secretary General at the Danish
Cultural Institute. He has the degree Cand.scient.pol from
Aarhus University, and a career behind him as consul general
and ambassador in New York. He has also been ambassador in
Warsaw and Riga.
Mr. Olaf Gerlach Hansen, senior advisor at the Danish Cultural
Institute and a Director of the Culture Futures, an informal
network concerned with shaping and delivering a proactive
cultural agenda to support the necessary transition towards an
Ecological Age by 2050.
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Indian/Danish fusion with Mr. Lars Møller & musicians from Aarhus Jazz
Orchestra
Lars Møller – tenorsax
Mads Bærentzen – piano
Thomas Ovesen – bass
Special guest:
Ole Theil - Tabla
From 1994 to 2001 Lars Møller Group was one of the leading Danish Jazz groups.
The unique mix of American, Scandinavian and Indian sources of inspiration got
international attention.
They released 5 recordings, got a Grammy award for “Kaleidoscope” and performed
around the world — including Blue Note in New York.
The musical identity of the band was to a high degree a result of the long time devotion to
studying the classical music tradition of India by Lars Møller and Ole Theill. After living in
New York 1987-89, playing with a number of legendary jazz musicians, Lars Møller spend
several prolonged periods studying with shanei masters Pandit Anant Lal and his son
Pandit Daya Shankar.
Ole Theill spend several decades studying with tabla master Pandit Ishwar Lal Mishra in
Varanasi. Presently Lars Møller is Artistic director and general manager, Aarhus Jazz
Orchestra, and also a internationally acclaimed composer and conductor for big bands
and working on a longterm Indian/Danish musical collaboration project “Bollywood Beats
and Big Band”.
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PARTICIPANT LIST
Name
Position
Organisation
Adam Øigaard
Member of the Henning HolckLarsen Board
Holck-Larsen Foundation
Annapurna Vancheswaran PhD, Director, Sustainable
Development Outreach Division
The Energy and Resources
Institute (TERI)
Ann Jensenius
Student, Modern India & South
Asian Studies
University of Copenhagen
Anne Sofie HansenSkovmoes
Producer & Head
Copenhagen Bombay Learning
Arne Katholm
PhD, Dramatist and dramaturg
Katholm Productions
Arundhathi Ghosh
Executive Director
India Foundation for the Arts
Astrid Elbek
Head of Development
The Royal Academy of Music,
Aarhus/Aalborg
Astrid Saalbach
Author
Self-employed
Birgitte Øigaard
Member of the Henning HolckLarsen Board
Holck-Larsen Foundation
Camilla Stockmarr
Author
Danish Authors' Society
Christina Papsø Weber
National Director
Centre for Culture 6
Development
Dolly Sawhney
Chair
Asian Music Association
Ea Elisabeth Bauchy
Head of Section
Agency for Reserach and
Innovation
Eigil Suhr
Master of engineering, rank & file Danish Indian Soceity
of
Elsebeth Krogh
CEO
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Danish Centre for Culture and
Development
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Name
Position
Organisation
Flemming Besenbacher
Chairman of the Board of
Directors, Carlsberg A/S &
Carlsberg Foundation, Prof. of
Nanoscience and Physics.
Carlsberg Foundation & Aarhus
University
Henrik Toft Jensen
Ass. Prof., Department of
Roskilde University Centre
Environmental, Social and Spatial
Change.
Inger Magrethe Larsen
Designer / Artist
Self-employed
Irene Becker
Member & Musician
Danish National Commission for
UNESCO
Jakob Vedelsby
President
Danish Authors' Society
Jakob Williams Ørberg
PhD Fellow, EPOKE - Education,
Policy and Organisation in the
Knowledge Economy,
Department of Education
Aarhus University
Jens Ring
Chief consultant, Trade, Market
& Nutrition
Danish Agriculture & Food
Council
Kenneth Agerholm
The co- founder and workshop
facilitator
Facilitator Bureau
Knud Romer
Author
Self-employed
Kunal Singla
Director
DI India office
Lars Hulgård
International coordinator &
Roskilde University
professor in Social
Entrepreneurship & management
(CSE) - Network
Lars Møller
Artistic Director / General
Manager
Aarhus Jazz Orchestra
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Name
Position
Organisation
Lizzie Schreiber Singh
President
Danish Indian Society
Mads Bærentzen
Musician
Aarhus Jazz Orchestra
Manbir Singh
Restaureteuer & Chair
Asian Music Association
Marie Yoshida
ADI Project Coordinator
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
(NIAS)
Mark Lorenzen
Prof. MSO, PhD, Department of
Innovation & Organizational
Economics
Copenhagen Business School
Mogens Jensen
Minister for Trade 6
Development Cooperation
Ministry of Foreign Affirs of
Denmark
Morten Overgaard
Head of International Affairs
Technical University of
Denmark
Neelabh Singh
Head of Strategic Projects
Complex Clenatech Solutions
Nidhi Sharma
Director-writer
Film director and writer
(Mumbai)
Niels Brimnes
Ass. Prof., Department of Culture Aarhus University
and Society
Nils-Georg Lundberg
Member of the Danish National
Commission for UNESCO
Danish National Commission for
UNESCO
Nitin Chandy
Co-founder
True School of Music (Mumbai)
Olaf Gerlach-Hansen
Senior Advisor
Danish Cultural Institute
Ole Theil
Musician
Aarhus Jazz Orchestra
Peter Birkelund Andersen Ass. Prof., Department of CrossCultural and Regional Studies.
University of Copenhagen
Prathibha Prahlad
Delhi International Arts Festival
Festival director and dancer
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Name
Position
Organisation
Priya Mani
Design and Research Consultant
Leapcraft
R.B. Singh
Prof., Head of Geography
University of Delhi
Institute, President, International
Geographical Union
Rakesh Kumar
Counselor
Embassy of India in Denmark
Rashmi Singla
International coordinator & Ass.
Prof. Department of Psychology
& Educational Studies
Roskilde University
Ruheen Iyer
Freelance Film Director
Self-employed
Simona Kaur
Msc Management of Innovation
& Business Development
Copenhagen Business School
S.K. Koul
Prof. & Deputy Director
Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi
Steen Lassen
Partner
Lassen Ricard
Stephen Carney
Ass. Prof. The Department of
Roskilde University
Psychology & Educational Studies
The Dynamics of Globalisation,
Inequality & New Processes of
International Interaction.
Sudhanshu Rai
Ass. Prof., Team Leader, EuroCopenhagen Business School
India Department of Intercultural
Communication and
Management.
Sune Kaur-Pedersen
Special consultant
Secretariat, The Danish Agency
for Science Technology &
Innovation
Name
Position
Organisation
Supriti
Immediate Past President
SPIC MACAY (Society for
promotion of classical Indian
music and culture for the youth)
Sven Bislev
Vice President Education &
Associate professor Department
of Intercultural Communication
and Management
Copenhagen Business School
Tina Schoen
Senior Public Affairs Adviser
A.P. Møller - Maersk A/S
Ulla Rønberg
Senior Adviser for cultural
coordination
Danish Agency for Culture
Vera Hildebrand
Retired Prof., Writer & Associate Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
(NIAS) Copenhagen
Vinay Venkatraman
CEO and founder
Leapcraft
Jesper Boysen
Project Consultant
Danish Cultural Institute
Katrine Arevad
Project Assistant
Danish Cultural Institute
Merete Agger
Project Coordinator
Danish Cultural Institute
Mette Strægaard Emig
Communications Officer
Danish Cultural Institute
Malene K. Holm
Communications Consultant
Danish Cultural Institute
Pia Nygaard
Project Assistant
Danish Cultural Institute
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From DCI:
This Conference celebrates the closing of India Today - Copenhagen Tomorrow.
The aim of the conference is to foster new co-operations in the fields of arts, heritage
and culture, education and science, as well as the themes of sustainable development,
innovation and co-creation.
India Today - Copenhagen Tomorrow was a Danish/Indian project initiated by the
Danish Holck-Larsen Foundation. The foundation was established by Henning HolckLarsen, co-founder of the Indian company Larsen & Toubro, which is one of the leading
and most admired companies in India.
The purpose of India Today - Copenhagen Tomorrow was to link the people of India
and Denmark in the true spirit of Mr. Holck-Larsen by promoting exchange of culture,
science and trade between the two countries.
India Today - Copenhagen Tomorrow took place from 18.8.2012 – 13.1.2013 in
Denmark, and was the largest Indian-Danish program of collaboration ever. The
purpose was to show Denmark and Danes the modern India and to strengthen IndianDanish cooperation and innovation within culture, science and business. A large
program of events in Denmark presented Indian contemporary art, literature, movies,
fashion, music and dance. Besides this there were conferences and dialogue and cocreation between business, culture, tourism, education, science and media. Many
events took place at the internationally famous ARKEN - Museum of Modern Art,
where two new highly praised exhibitions will present Indian contemporary art and the
newest trends of Indian fashion.
Learn more: www.cocreatenow.org
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THE DANISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE
The Danish Cultural Institute promotes dialogue and understanding across cultural
differences and national borders. Our work is founded on a broad conceptual platform
that embraces art, culture and society; areas that unite people across cultures,
promote international understanding and facilitate intercultural communication.
We focus on:
 co-creation
 innovation
 welfare
 sustainability
 children & youth
The Danish Cultural Institute facilitates networks and strengthens collaboration
between Danish and international artists, cultural institutions and the business
community. Using culture as a common starting point, we create platforms for
knowledge sharing, the exchange of ideas and experiences and lasting cultural
relations.
This is achieved through diverse cultural activities, such as concerts, exhibitions,
conferences, field trips and Danish courses.
At the moment the Danish Cultural Institute has branches in seven countries: Belgium,
Brazil, China, Latvia, Poland, Russia and UK. Head office is in Copenhagen.
Learn more: http://www.dankultur.dk/
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