7. Industrial PhD projects under 4+4 schemes

• As with three-year Industrial PhD projects, a project application is made. At the time of application, the candidate should have completed or be working towards completing four years of university studies. In addition, the candidate should be enrolled in a 4+4 PhD programme at a university or should be able to render it probable that he or she can be enrolled into such a programme.
• The Programme Committee will assess the project description and give a conditional approval if the application meets the programme requirements and the candidate has a weighted grade point average of at least 8.2 on the Danish 7-point grading scale at the time of application.  
• The student is enrolled or hired at the university during the first two years according to the university’s own regulations.
• After the first two years of the PhD education, the candidate submits a statement or grade for the examination which is part of the PhD education at the university and which the student is taking instead of the traditional thesis or final master’s project. If the examination is graded, the student must have earned at least the grade 10. If DASTI, possibly in consultation with the Programme Committee, assesses that the candidate lives up to the Industrial PhD candidate requirements, the company will then hire the candidate on the ordinary Industrial PhD terms.

DASTI does not provide any subsidy during the first year of an Industrial PhD education under a 4+4 scheme. DASTI will provide subsidy to the company for the final two years of the education. DASTI will provide subsidy to the university for the final three years of the four-year education.

• Return to index