Sustainable Partnership

Roskilde Festival returns once again as a laboratory for DTU students

The 2023 Roskilde Festival marks the 12th occasion on which the event is used as a huge laboratory by DTU students. This year, the students are testing 15 projects that can make the festival both greener and even more fun.

Alkoholtesten is an engaging project that measures how your alcohol level affects your performance in entertaining games targeting different motor skills. Participants get to experience firsthand how their motor skills can decline with alcohol and/or sleep deprivation. Photo: Ditte Valente.

Friday 30 June 2023

Linnea Lundberg

A street light that causes minimal light pollution, biodegradable ear plugs made from fungi, and a collapsible and sound-insulated sleeping box that allows the user to take an undisturbed nap in the midst of huge speakers and jubilant festival-goers.

These are all projects that you can see at this year’s Roskilde Festival which gets under way this week. The projects have been created by DTU students, and their aim is to solve specific challenges facing the festival.

For more than a decade, DTU and Roskilde Festival have been collaborating on boosting engineering programmes and developing solutions to the many engineering challenges arising in a festival which in effect is a temporary city with some 130,000 inhabitants and a population density greater than that of the capital of the Philippines, Manila.

This year’s projects include new initiatives encompassing street lighting, waste sorting, acoustics, energy use, and the reuse of materials. These are all projects that have been devised and delivered by DTU students as part of their study programme. A supervisor is assigned to each project, and students typically receive 5 ECTS credits for their work.

All DTU students have had the chance to submit project ideas or proposals for how to solve specific challenges raised as issues by the festival.

You can read more about the partnership at DTU's website.

This project consists of stationary bikes, which have a system of dynamos to convert kinetic energy to electrical. It means that festival-goers can recharge their phones while going for a bike ride. Photo: Ditte Valente.
The partnership between DTU and Roskilde Festival is also known as Roskilde Festival - Powered by DTU Students. Photo: Ditte Valente.
This project aims is to reduce plastic waste from scaffolding firms and Roskilde festival, by recycling tarp into air mattresses. Photo: Ditte Valente.
Two of the students that have come up with the recycled mattress take a well-deserved break in front of DTU's landmark at the festival, the beautiful Paper Pavilion. Photo: Ditte Valente.
They weren't the only ones taking a quiet break. Also at the project Sleepy by Behag, which is a foldable and noise-minimizing sleeping box, festival-goers took a break. Photo: Ditte Valente.
Sleepy by Behag has room for up to three sleepy festival-goers. Photo: Ditte Valente.
The long term goal with this project is to deploy this technology in public spaces where crowd safety personnel can be alerted to individuals who may need assistance, thereby enhancing safety measures and providing aid more efficiently. Photo: Ditte Valente.
Alkoholtesten is a fun way to test how your alcohol level affects your performance. Photo: Ditte Valente.

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Lars Dyreborg Christoffersen

Lars Dyreborg Christoffersen Senior Vice President and Dean of Studies and Student Affairs Phone: +45 45251009