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DTU will promote promising fields of research within the technical and the natural sciences, especially based on usefulness to society, relevance to business and sustainability.
International collaboration is an integrated part of DTUs activities and a prerequisite for DTUs status as an international elite university. .
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DTU’s research helps to develop sustainable technological solutions to some of the main challenges facing the world within areas such as the environment and climate, energy supply, health, food, IT, transport, and construction.
About DTU's research
DTU's objective is to be a national centre for technological development through education, research, innovation, and scientific consultancy.
Our focus is technical-scientific research which contributes to the development of society.
As a business-oriented university, our aim is to deliver research at a high international level, which is based on the link between theory and model-building and empiricism.
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DTU has a number of unique research facilities, and contributes with instrumentation and data processing for several joint European facilities.
DTU’s research areas range widely within the natural science and technical fields. DTU focuses on basic research and solutions to global societal challenges.
Grants from private and public pools allow DTU to strive for research breakthroughs.
DTU follows a number of principles to ensure that its research is of a high quality and credibility.