• An Industrial PhD student is employed in the private sector company and enrolled at the university.
• The private sector company applies for funding for the project from Innovation Fund Denmark, and the student is employed by the company and receives a salary during the entire Industrial PhD project.
• The student shares her/his working time between the company and the university, and spends all the work time on the Industrial PhD project.

What do you get out of an Industrial PhD project?

• The project allows the Industrial PhD to carry out a research project where results are applied in an enterprise setting.
• The company gets a candidate able to carry out a high quality research project and create results that can lead to commercial gain. At the same time, the company strengthens its relations to existing and new collaboration partners at the university.
• The public sector research institution strengthens its relations to the business sector, and a foundation for new research is created.