Alumni make a difference for DTU

Many alumni have already made – and continue to make – a significant difference for DTU in many contexts. Throughout their lives and careers, alumni can make a difference for DTU both directly, personally, and as representatives of the companies and organizations where they work, and indirectly by involving their network of family, friends, and colleagues.

APR Stakeholder Management works to ensure good data on alumni in DTU's common alumni database (e.g., information on job status and professional interests), create good contact with alumni (via relevant and targeted communication), and build and maintain good relationships to engage alumni as best as possible in DTU's activities.

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 events
• Continuing education offers (courses)
• 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.