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Food

If we are to feed the growing population, we need to make food production more sustainable.
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Green transportation

The transportation sector is emitting more and more CO2 from cars, trucks, airplanes and shipping. To reverse this trend, more of the known solutions and technologies need to come into play.

Artificial intelligence

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have never been faster. The technology seems to hold almost unlimited potential, and it is hard to imagine where it will all end.

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AI supercomputer boosts research into women's health

Researchers from DTU and Amager and Hvidovre Hospital will have access to the Gefion supercomputer in a series of projects on women's diseases in a new collaboration with the Danish Centre for AI Innovation, DCAI.

Strong admission figures for DTU programmes

DTU is offering 2,109 places to young people following a 6 per cent increase in the number of first-choice applications.
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The environmental cost of everyday choices

Choosing how to live in a way that truly helps our overburdened planet can be difficult. Researchers at DTU have calculated the impact of a wide range of everyday activities to help consumers lighten their impact on the environment.

At DTU students learn physics with both heads and hands

Lectures and step-by-step tutorials are out the door in the experimental learning spaces in building 306 at DTU Lyngby Campus. Instead, students collaborate to organize open-ended physics experiments, enhancing their learning.
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Current topics

Through a number of current topics, we focus on how DTU's research creates value for society and people and delivers technical solutions to the major societal challenges.

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29 August 2025

President: "Welcome to a new academic year"

The study start is going on around DTU campuses right now, and many are committed to making the start festive for our new engineering students. We would have liked to admit many more students – society needs more engineers. That aside, today we enjoy the commencement of a new academic year, where we will do what we do best: educate engineers, researchers, and advisors for the benefit of society.
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University affairs

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10 September 2025

This year’s Study Guide is out now

You can now explore DTU’s Study Guide 2025/26. It is our digital study catalogue which introduces DTU’s many MSc Eng programmes as well as the BSc Eng in General Engineering, which is also taught in English.

04 September 2025

AI supercomputer boosts research into women's health

Researchers from DTU and Amager and Hvidovre Hospital will have access to the Gefion supercomputer in a series of projects on women's diseases in a new collaboration with the Danish Centre for AI Innovation, DCAI.
Kandidatstudiestart august 2025

28 August 2025

New MSc students ready to challenge themselves

DTU has welcomed more than 1,800 new MSc students – including nearly 600 exchange students – from 75 different countries.
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Events

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CodeRefinery workshop - 9 sessioner

09. sep 11:00 - 22. okt 14:30 | Are you an academic researcher or student using computing/data, and is your work held back by struggling with the programming or data management? Or isn’t your research reproducible or open enough? Then, join the CodeRefinery tools workshop.

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PhD Summer School in Kobe, Japan 2025

16. sep - 18. sep

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CodeRefinery workshop

17. sep 12:00 - 14:30 | Workshop for academic researcher and student: Focus on Reproducible Research

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New at DTU: Getting to know your library in 30 min.

17. sep 12:30 - 13:00 | - short into to DTU Library
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