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Danmarks Tekniske Universitet

DTU

DTU er et teknisk eliteuniversitet, der er kendetegnet ved forskning og uddannelse på højeste internationale niveau, professorer med forskningsledelse, tæt samspil med myndigheder og erhvervslivet, samt strategiske alliancer med samarbejdspartnere i Danmark og internationalt.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Dan Jørgensen (Commissioner)

13 Oct 2025 · Energy technology research and development

Meeting with Anne Katherina Weidenbach (Cabinet of Commissioner Dan Jørgensen) and Rådet for Grøn Omstilling and

24 Sept 2025 · Energy policy

Meeting with Marc Lemaitre (Director-General Research and Innovation) and

25 Apr 2025 · Second meeting of the European Startup and Scaleup Forum. Discussion on the draft building blocks of the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy structured along the identified obstacles and possible solutions.

Meeting with Ekaterina Zaharieva (Commissioner) and

13 Mar 2025 · Exchange on the role of universities in research and innovation, competitiveness and FP10

Response to Interim Evaluation of Digital Europe

20 Sept 2024

To the European Commission, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is a beneficiary and a strong supporter of the activities within the Digital Europe Programme focusing on supercomputing, AI, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills and supporting Chips Joint Undertaking activities etc.. We see higher education and science institutions like DTU as important contributors and project vehicles to make actual collaboration happen between start-ups, SME´s, industrial players and public authorities. As a beneficiary in Digital Europe projects, we can support an efficient and responsible implementation of the technologies we have been developing in research. Furthermore, we will be able to bring knowledge from the implementation projects back into our research engine. DTU is currently the 6th most active beneficiary in the Digital Europe Program with a project portfolio of 8.6 million EUR. Hence, we find that the Digital Europe initiatives are a natural enablers supporting DTU´s mission to benefit society through science. However, we have unfortunately experienced significant challenges when it comes to implementing the vision and initiatives - especially when it comes to the funding model and the state aid regulations. In the CitCom.ai TEF project, we unfortunately reached the conclusion to withdraw from the project in which we were coordinator. This decision was a consequence of the lack of co-financing and the absence of useful guidelines regarding state aid. For elaboration on the issues raised in the project, please see the attached document. The project administrative complexity will - for universities - be higher in implementation projects, but the three-way funding model (EU, Member States and other funding sources) will - combined with the two levels of state aid - in some cases incur such high costs for administrative and legal services that it becomes a showstopper. Therefore, DTUs feedback on this evaluation is that the aims and vision of the Digital Europe Programme is highly relevant and needed. But the lack of clear guidelines regarding state aid for both Member States and the beneficiaries is a huge liability for the project implementation - keeping in mind that the beneficiaries holds the risk that non-compliant state aid funding may be recovered by Member States up to 10 years after the project is concluded. Hence, we suggest to have very elaborate guidance for each specific type of project (fx. TEFs, EDIHs or Chips Competence Centers etc.) to ensure, that national co-financing is channeled into the projects in compliance with the state aid regulations. And ro make sure, that Member States only apply the necessary measures. For example it should be clear if there are types of activities which will not be subject to state aid control in the specific project type. Furthermore, we suggest that the European Commission - in addition to the guidelines - assist Member States and beneficiaries with a written Q&A along the way. And that the Q&A will be publicly viewable to ensure transparency for both beneficiaries and for the users of the services. We hope that clearer guidelines will enable more institutions like ours to engage in the Digital Europe Programme. Furthermore, we suggest a funding model that takes into account that universities require full funding to participate in projects where the public institutions are not building commercial capacity. And also a funding model that takes into account when the high risk nature of the investment makes it difficult or impossible - for public universities to co-finance projects. Especifically, we suggest to increase the EU-funding rate for the coordinator task as done in other funding mechanisms. And likewise for other project activities in which science and technology institutions play a key role. For the purpose of conveying the specific questions raised in projects where DTU were coordinator, we attached explanatory documen
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Response to Monitoring and reporting of molecular analytical data within foodborne outbreaks

29 Aug 2024

The National Food Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Food) supports the new draft implementing regulation. It is timely and will provide essential data for the investigation of food borne illness in the EU member states. Furthermore, it has the potential to enhance global cooperation in investigating foodborne illnesses.
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Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)

19 Jun 2024 · High level group reflections, on the interim evaluation of Horizon Europe, opportunities for research and innovation (R&I) in the coming years