For the 5th year in a row, Roskilde Festival is collaborating with DTU, Technical University of Denmark, on developing engineering solutions to the challenges involved with having over 100,000 people gathered in one place.
As part of their training, around 90 DTU students will be at the festival site and the camping area. Through more than 20 projects—ranging from cooling, waste management, and acoustics to a test version of an inexpensive and simple urinal that leads the urine away from the fencing. DTU students create solutions that work in Roskilde Festival's ruthless environment.
Around the festival site and the camping area, festival-goers will therefore meet several engineering solutions designed by DTU students—all crafted to help improve festival conditions.
A most welcome contribution according to Roskilde Festival spokeswoman Christina Bilde:
“Every year, Roskilde Festival becomes Denmark’s fourth-largest city. It is therefore only natural for us to enter into collaboration with educational institutions such as DTU as the DTU students work with the solutions required to make the festival function, and the partnership offers us valuable knowledge and insights for use in our future planning. Also—which is equally important for us—it gives the students an opportunity to test their knowledge and ideas in practice, which means that we help the students along in their training. And we a proud of being part of this process,” says Christina Bilde.
"the DTU students work with the solutions required to make the festival function"
Christina Bilde, Roskilde Festival spokeswoman
The collaboration between Roskilde Festival and DTU dates back to 2010, and Martin Vigild, Senior Vice President and Dean of Graduate Studies and International Affairs at DTU and one of the founders of the partnership, is very pleased that DTU students have the opportunity to use Roskilde Festival as a laboratory for their bright ideas:
“It is a great asset to DTU. By working together with Roskilde Festival the students learn a lot about what it takes to create functional engineering solutions in collaboration with an actual client. And this is the very essence of their training which is aimed at preparing them for solving small and large problems in society. We are also very interested in our students becoming innovative and entrepreneurial, and we can see that three DTU student-driven start-ups have already spawned as a direct consequence of the collaboration with the festival," he says.
Meet the students and hear more about their projects in TechLab at Arena
TechLab is open on Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.