About DTU

DTU is an elite technical university of international reach and standard. We are engaged in education, research, scientific advice, and innovation which contribute to growth and welfare.

DTU’s research is conducted at a high international level and with major initiatives in a number of socially relevant engineering disciplines, including sustainable energy technology, life science, and digitalization.

DTU is Denmark’s largest educational institution for engineers. We educate engineers with in-depth academic competency and great commitment, and we train our students to think entrepreneurially and across disciplines.

DTU has a strong innovation system for its students, employees, and partners. The researchbased innovation is supported through courses, competitions, mentoring, coaching, acceleration programmes, and soft funding. DTU Skylab is DTU’s innovation hub, a meeting place for researchers and students which offers the opportunity to develop and test technology for people in practice.

DTU provides scientific advice —often anchored in long-term strategic framework agreements with Danish ministries, and including handling and efficient management of major societal challenges such as pandemics, sustainable resource consumption, and the green transition.

Ever since Hans Chrisian Ørsted founded the University in 1829, DTU’s mission has been to develop and create value using the natural sciences and the technical sciences to benefit society. What is regarded as beneficial to society has changed over time, but the mission remains the same.

DTU’s current strategy is called Technology for people 2020-25 and is based on the same mission we have always had, with three objectives setting a direction for our day-to-day work:

• We offer Europe’s best engineering education— throughout life

• We develop technologies for sustainable change

• We assume leadership of the opportunities offered by digitalization.

With sustainability as an objective, we have set a new direction for our mission to benefit society.