It is possible to contact the 12 departments of SCIENCE directly with collaboration inquiries.
Collaboration with researchers and students at SCIENCE
At SCIENCE, we collaborate with companies, authorities, and organisations on creating knowledge and solutions that strengthen sustainable transformation, digitalisation, and a healthy life. Read more about collaboration opportunities on this page.
Solutions through collaboration and innovation
We want to contribute to the development of industry and society, addressing significant challenges in areas such as climate, environment, energy, natural resources, food, health, and smart technologies.
At SCIENCE, we highly prioritise external collaboration. Our researchers and students often engage with other companies, organisations, and authorities to develop and disseminate new knowledge that can create innovation and research-based solutions for the benefit of society.
Every year, researchers at SCIENCE enter into hundreds of collaboration agreements with external organisations.
Collaboration Opportunities
- Research collaboration: Collaborate with researchers at SCIENCE, for example, funded by Innovation Fund Denmark or other foundations.
- Contract research: Purchase a specific service or consultancy.
- Use of facilities and infrastructure: Access our facilities and infrastructure for analyses.
- PhD projects: Engage a PhD student, for instance, with support from the Innovation Fund Denmark for an industrial PhD.
Read more about our PhD school. - Tailored continuing and further education: Get customised training and further education for your company.
Read more about continuing and further education. - Technology licensing: Obtain a license for patented technology from SCIENCE through the University of Copenhagen's Tech Transfer Office.
Read more about Technology Transfer. - Government services: Ministries can purchase our research services.
Read more about government collaboration.
When can you collaborate with SCIENCE's researchers on a project?
To collaborate with researchers at SCIENCE, your project must:
- Align with one of SCIENCE's areas of expertise.
- Have relevant research depth.
- Include a financing plan.
- Be within an area where researchers have available capacity for new collaborations.
Read more about the legal framework for collaboration opportunities.
Read more about the legal framework for collaboration opportunities.
Find a Researcher
Please contact us if you need assistance clarifying the possibilities for a collaboration.
You can also:
- Search for researchers from the University of Copenhagen yourself
- Use the expert lists (in Danish) to find researchers engaged in selected topics
- Explore our main areas of research at https://science.ku.dk/english/research/.
Contact SCIENCE
Contact us if you would like to learn more about your opportunities to collaborate with researchers at SCIENCE:
Jacob Juul Gade
+45 35 33 17 48
jjg@science.ku.dk
Collaboration with SCIENCE students on a study project can provide your company or organisation with
- new professional perspectives on specific issues
- contact with potential candidates.
At the same time, you give students insight into how they can use the skills from their education in their future careers.
Different forms of project collaboration
A project collaboration can vary in duration depending on the type of project and can start at 5 fixed times during the academic year.
3 types of projects that our students can do with you:
- Project in practice with master’s or bachelor’s students
- Bachelor’s project
- Master’s thesis
Need more information about project collaboration?
Contact our career team
How to get in touch with SCIENCE students
4 ways to get in touch with SCIENCE students:
- Participate in our career fair on Friday, 4th October part of the career week, SCIENCE Career Horizons
- Post your project idea via UCPH’s project and job portal
- Contribute with teaching cases. Contact the relevant department
- Inspire new start-ups at UCPH's incubator UCPH Lighthouse
At the faculty level, SCIENCE strives to create favourable conditions for collaboration with businesses, authorities, and other organisations.
To this end, SCIENCE collaborates with various stakeholders in the ecosystem of research, innovation, and education. These include foundations, international and Danish universities, clusters, investors, authorities, businesses, and more. SCIENCE also enters into strategic collaboration agreements with close collaborators, ensuring regular high-level strategic meetings.
Several companies and authorities are also involved in our:
Contact SCIENCE
Contact us if you would like to learn more about your opportunities to collaborate with SCIENCE:
Jacob Juul Gade
+45 35 33 17 48
jjg@science.ku.dk
Researchers at SCIENCE have extensive experience collaborating with authorities on consulting, monitoring, evaluations, and more. This enables the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) to provide research-based and impartial knowledge that can inform political decisions.
Our government services always adhere to UCPH's Code of Good Scientific Practice and the university's own quality assurance procedures.
Read more about public sector services at the University of Copenhagen
Contact SCIENCE
Jacob Juul Gade
+45 35 33 17 48
jjg@science.ku.dk