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The new Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is a broadly founded, business-oriented technical elite university where research goes hand in hand with education, innovation and advisory functions for government authorities.

The Technical University of Denmark now has some 7,000 students and about 4,200 employees, 2,000 of these being researchers, and has a yearly turnover of DKK 3.2 billion. A leading international university has thus been created that attracts and develops competent scientists for the benefit of students, the business sector and society.

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News from the Danish Institute for Fisheries Research


News from The National Food Institute and The National Veterinary Institute (formerly the Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research)


News from the Danish National Space Center


News from the Danish Transport Research Institute


News from Risø National Laboratory

DTU is the continuing legal unit

As of 1 January 2007, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) will – as the continuing unit – take over and in every respect continue the activities and obligations etc. which have so far been carried out by the Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research, the Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, the Danish National Space Center, the Danish Transport Research Institute and Risø National Laboratory. 

In practice, the merger will, however, not have any influence on ongoing collaboration, as it also in the future will be the same group of persons who will be involved in the collaboration.

Institutions in the new DTU

In October 2006 the Danish government decided to establish fewer and stronger universities and at the same time merge the universities with government research institutions. As a consequence of this decision, the Technical University of Denmark has by 1 January 2007 been merged with Risø National Laboratory, the Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research (now The National Food Institute and The National Veterinary Institute), the Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, the Danish National Space Center and the Danish Transport Research Institute.

At its meeting on 3 January 2007, the Board of Governors decided that the name of the university continues to be the Technical University of Denmark with DTU as corporate brand.

The merger process includes three overall stages: The preparation stage (until 31 December 2006), the implementation year (2007), and the operating years (2008 and thereafter).