Scientific advice

DTU offers scientific advice to public sector authorities, industries, and international institutions. The activities contribute significantly to knowledge transfer and informed decision-making in society.

National scientific advice

DTU currently has strategic partnerships with Danish authorities on food safety, chemicals, aquatic resources, diagnostics, waste management, geodetics, traffic infrastructure, and radioactivity.

Our advisory services include complex problem solving, risk characterization for informed standard setting, development of surveillance systems for ongoing risk assessments, and diagnostic capacity for contingency planning and crisis resolution. Scientific advice from universities, a unique Danish model, is beneficial to society because it provides synergy between university research and applied research as well as an in-depth understanding of sector-specific challenges, acquired through exten sive collaborations with our strategic partners.

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic DTU researchers have been part of the mathematical modeling expert group at Statens Serum Institut providing analyses for the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Health. Moreover, DTU has established a test laboratory for COVID-19 analysing clinical samples from Danish hospitals.

International scientific advice

In addition to DTU’s national advisory activities, the University provides scientific advice to international authorities and organizations.

The UNEP DTU Partnership provides advice on the transition towards more low carbon development paths, and supports integration of climate-resilience in national development through in-depth research, policy analysis, and capacity building activities.

DTU has been designated as a special EU reference laboratory in five different areas—including in the field of fish diseases and antimicrobial resistance.

In 2019, DTU has published a new and more accu rate version of the global wind atlas as a result of a partnership agreement with the World Bank in 2019. The global wind atlas is a free web-based application owned by DTU, which helps policy makers, planners, and investors around the world identify global, national, and local high-wind areas for wind power generation.

A wind turbine’s electricity production can be improved dramatically if placed in the optimum location. With DTU’s global wind atlas decision makers can identify the best areas for wind turbines.