Industrial PhDs at DTU Aqua
What is an industrial PhD? How does it work? And whom should you contact? Learn more here.
What is it?
- The industrial PhD scheme of Innovation Fund Denmark aims to foster collaborations between companies and universities and in the process, it helps connect early career researchers to the private sector.
- As a company, this is a great way to explore more risky research questions or to boost your R&D team through knowledge transfer in a targeted manner.
- As a company, this is a great way to engage with world-leading researchers to explore your R&D challenges.
- As a student, this is a great way to be fully engaged with private sector R&D.
How does it work?
- An individual is employed in a private company and enrolled at university as a PhD student. The candidate works on a unique research project as part of their employment and education.
- Innovation Fund Denmark supports this project by providing a subsidy for salary (612,000 DKK for 36 months) and 100,000 DKK for travel allowance. The university receives up to 360,000 DKK (which includes overheads). The company covers the rest (40%) of the research cost.
- At the moment a typical PhD salary+pension starts at 390,000 DKK per annum.
- The grant to the company (excluding share to the university) covers at most 50% of the project cost.
- A PhD project lasts 36 months during which time the student also has to be involved in coursework (about 6 months spread through the three years, covered by the university share)
I have an idea what do I do next?
- Get in touch with a researcher to discuss your project idea, they can help you with shaping it into a project relevant to the industrial PhD scheme.
- You can also contact the PhD School at DTU Aqua (please find contact info in the boxes).