Employee benefits

Employees are DTU’s most important resource. DTU therefore offers a number of employee benefits to enhance its employees’ job satisfaction.

DTU’s employees are largely free to organize their work, and DTU prioritizes professional and personal competence development, whether you are aiming for a scientific, technical or administrative career.

Cooperation on work-related projects is not the only important factor for DTU’s work environment. We also enjoy sports, as well as social and informative activities together.

The list below describes your benefits as an employee at DTU. It includes both the terms and conditions resulting from various laws and collective agreements, as well as the special social activities on offer at DTU.

Also check your department’s local employee benefits.

Terms of employment covered by collective agreements, etc. between professional organizations and the employee:

• Employee development interviews (MUS)
• Maternity leave with full pay, according to government rules
• Pension contribution
• Paid lunch break
• 6 weeks of holiday
• Child’s first and second sick day
• 2 childcare days per year for parents of children born after 1 October 2005 up to and including the year in which the child attains the age of 7
• Advice and guidance on the layout of the individual workplace

Special DTU terms and conditions

Strengthening employee competences:

• Competence development internally—DTU has its own training catalogue with a varied range of courses, including professional competence development, an employee development programme, a project manager programme, and a leadership development programme.
• Budgets for agreed, relevant supplementary training
• Internal recruitment and mobility

Family-friendly workplace:

• Flexitime scheme for the majority of technical/administrative staff
• Possibility for kindergarten care at DTU Lyngby Campus

Good conditions in general:

• Canteens at DTU
• Free parking

Holidays and time off with pay:

• Day off with pay on 5 June, 24 December, and 31 December
• Possibility of time off for doctor’s or dentist’s appointments
Possibility day off with pay in connection with deaths and funerals, and 25th, 40th, and 50th anniversary in the service of the state
• Time off for studying the day prior to an exam and day off on the day of the exam subject to agreement with your immediate manager provided that it is an education that DTU has supported or recommended

Physical and mental well-being:

• DTU Sport - DTU Sport is an association with a main goal - to promote sport and movement at DTU! Here DTU staff and students have the opportunity to meet, socialize and be active together.
• Psychological counselling

In addition, DTU offers includes the following activities:

• Art Society
• University choir
• Staff association (at most departments)
• Friday bar
• Various academic and social events such as concerts, annual celebrations, and the DTU Relay Race.