Collaboration with researchers and students at SCIENCE

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.

Close collaboration with students can provide businesses and organisations with new perspectives on specific issues and a unique platform for recruitment. At the same time, it offers our students insight into how knowledge is applied in practice. Businesses and organisations can collaborate with students through:

• Bachelor’s projects, master’s theses, and other projects
• Student job

If you have questions regarding project collaboration, you can contact the faculty's career team.

If you are organising events such as:

• Company visits
• Case competitions
• Hackathons

You can contact the faculty's career team, and we will help promote your event to the relevant students.

If you would like to contribute with teaching cases or guest lectures, please contact the relevant department.

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:

• Advisory Board 

  (in Danish)

• Digitaliseringsråd  (in Danish)
• Aftagerpaneler (in Danish)

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