Visiting Schengen/DTU more than 90 days
All guest researchers with a non-EU nationality—visiting Schengen/DTU for more than 90 days—must have a valid work and residence permit before they start working at DTU.
You must have completed an educational programme at the level of a Master’s degree.
If you have completed an education at the required level and have been invited to conduct research at a Danish research institution or company as a part of your continuing education or career, you can apply for a residence permit as a guest researcher.
Visiting Schengen/DTU less than 90 days
If the guest researcher is visiting Schengen/DTU less than 90 days he/she may come to Denmark and work at DTU without a Danish work and residence permit, provided that the researcher will not be in Schengen for more than 90 days in any 180-day period (including day of arrival and departure). Note that previous stays in other Schengen countries have to be included in the calculation.
You must have completed an educational programme at the level of a Master’s degree.
If the guest researcher is a citizen of a country with a short-term visa requirement to enter Denmark, he/she must have obtained a visa valid for the entire stay before entering Denmark.
Please note that citizens from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria always need to apply for a Danish work and residence permit as citizens from these countries can no longer obtain visas for business visits and cultural and scientific visits (short term visas).
If the stay in Schengen is expected to be more than 90 days, the guest researcher must have a residence and work permitcovering the entire period, including the first three months. The work and residence permit must be issued prior to arriving in Denmark.
Accompanying family members
If the guest researcher holds a residence and work permit, he/she can usually bring his/her family to Denmark.
Process at DTU
If you are working at DTU Offshore - Danish Offshore Technology Centre, DTU Engineering Technology, DTU Entrepreneurship, DTU Learn for Life or DTU Space, and have invited a guest researcher, please send the following information to the HR work and residence permit team:
If you are working at other departments than mentioned above, please use the Guest Researcher System in which all guests are to apply and register for a research stay at DTU, and from which an Invitation Letter will be generated automatically. Please send the following link to your guest and ask him/her to register: https://guestresearcher.dtu.dk/
After the guest has registered his or her visit, the DTU host/contact person (whose name has been filled out by the guest in the registration form) will receive an e-mail, which will also be sent cc to a department inbox that a secretary has access to). The DTU host will need to approve the visit before Corporate HR receives the application.
After receiving the above-mentioned information, the HR work and residence permit team sends the new guest researcher a guideline on how to apply for a Danish work and residence permit.
The application processing time is approximately one month starting from the date the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI) receives a fully completed application.
On this basis, we recommend to start up the application process approximately 2,5 months before the expected start date.
A fully completed application consists of: