Attractive place to study and work

DTU’s view is that many of the challenges facing the world require engineers with a sustainability mindset. This is a big, but necessary, responsibility that we want to inspire all students and graduate engineers to pursue. At the same time, we want the solutions to the environmental and climate challenges to go hand in hand with social sustainability.

Sustainability is an integrated part of all DTU’s study programmes, and all students will complete programme components intended to boost their competence in innovation and entrepreneurship. The social dimension of sustainability includes social responsibility and room for diversity in all matters (for example culture, ethnicity, and gender).

Together with the PF student association, Polyteknisk Forening, DTU runs a number of activities aimed at supporting student well-being. We are aware that our students sometimes deal with a sense of inadequacy, anxiety, and stress, and offer assistance and counselling to those who are struggling.

A good working environment is also important to DTU. We undertake a social responsibility to meet the objective of inclusiveness in state institutions. This includes retaining employees who have reduced working capacity due to illness or accident, and by creating a framework that encourages openness in discussing our well-being.

DTU expects its employees to be creative, reflective, and critically analytical. Conversely, our employees can expect DTU to create space for creativity and encourage new ideas. They can expect DTU to be positive and open-minded about new and different ways of doing things.

DTU is an international university, and equality between gender and nationalities is a matter of course. Integration of international employees is a high priority, so that the meeting with DTU as a workplace and with Danish society is experienced smoothly and supportively.