The network is strategically important for DTU because alumni, with their experiences and engagement, contribute to the development of the study and research environment and create connections between DTU and the outside world.
How can departments engage alumni?
Several departments have special alumni activities, and many naturally involve alumni in local advisory boards and sounding boards for educations, etc. There are also many examples of Heads of Studies and lecturers having good relationships with their former students and drawing on these personal networks for example to give their students insights into career opportunities.
Similarly, many departments in the administration also involve alumni in connection with, for example, recruiting new students nationally and internationally, supporting the startup environment at DTU, graduate surveys, as judges at Green Challenge, etc.
Communication of existing offers and activities
Many departments have a wide range of existing offers and activities that may be relevant to alumni, and which APR Stakeholder Management is happy to help communicate to relevant alumni:
- Inauguration lectures for new Professors and other special lectures/public eventt
- Lifelong learning offers
- Conferences
Help to involve alumni
APR Stakeholder Management is happy to facilitate contact with alumni who can contribute in all relevant contexts, such as:
- Educational evaluations, contributions to further develop existing programmes/develop new programmes
- Advisory boards, sounding boards, follow-up groups, etc.
- Presentations/cases in connection with courses, etc.
- Mentors in local mentoring programmes
- Speakers at open house events, study start, Graduation Ceremonies, etc.
- Knowledge about careers, insights into job opportunities (role models for both current and potential students)
- Profiles on the website
- Involvement in research experiments (survey respondents, test subjects)
- Developing and strengthening relationships with partners (e.g., alumni on foundation boards, key positions in organizations/companies)
- Company representatives in relation to recruiting students for internships/project collaborations/student jobs and graduates for full-time jobs
- Investors/co-founders, involvement in the development of startups, etc.
Information from departments to DTU's alumni database
To best maintain DTU's alumni database and help engage alumni for the benefit of the entire DTU, it would be greatly helpful to receive information from departments about which alumni are involved in advisory boards and local activities (cross-checking data registered in the common alumni database) as well as which particularly interesting and influential alumni the departments are aware of.