All teachers who wish to develop their teaching practice can sign up for UDTU. Furthermore it is a demand from DTU that you have completed UDTU (or similar) before you can be course responsible.

Remember, however, that you need permission from your pedagogical coordinator in order to sign up for UDTU.

You must be assigned to teach a course/segment of a course (minimum is three sessions) before signing up for UDTU. Furthermore, you should sign up for UDTU half a year in advance of running that course.
I.e. if you are teaching a course in the fall of 2024, you must sign up for UDTU beginning in the spring of 2024. Lastly, you should check that you can attend all facilitated sessions, as it is not possible to skip or swap dates once you are signed up.

Yes, there is a two year time limit for completing the UDTU programme. If you exceed this deadline then you will have to start over. 

If you are an experienced teacher who has already completed a course in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and have several years of teaching experience, it is possible that you can skip the pre-requisite Teaching Lab course. You can evaluate if you can meet the learning objectives for Teaching Lab here. 

If you have wide-ranging experience with active teaching and learning methods, and have demonstrated these both theoretically and in practice, then it is also possible to be exempt from following UDTU. You will need to clarify this with your pedagogical supervisor.

Yes, there is a five year limit for when you completed Teaching Lab, meaning that if it is more than five years since you completed Teaching Lab then you need to complete it again. Read more about Teaching Lab here.

No, you have to spend the first semester (re)designing the course, and the second semester running the course whilst collecting and evaluating data from the course.

 

Pedagogical coordinators and supervisors   Updated May 2025  Any changes can be reported to learninglab@dtu.dk
Department	Pedagogical coordinator	Pedagogical supervisors
Aqua	André Visser	André Visser* Colin Stedmon* Einar Eg Nielsen*
Biotech & Biomedicine	Mogens Kilstrup	Mogens Kilstrup* Malene Bonné Meyer Lone Gram
Biosustain	Dina Petranovic Nielsen
Chemical engineering	Manuel Pinelo	Manuel Pinelo* Jakob Munkholt Christensen
Chemistry	Kristoffer Almdal	Kristoffer Almdal Esben Thormann Sebastian Meier Susanne L. Mossin
Compute	Philip Bille	Philip Bille*  Allan Peter Engsig-Karup  Carsten Witt  Inge Li Gørtz  Jakob Andreas Bærentzen  Jens Sparsø  Karsten Schmidt  Kim Knudsen  Morten Mørup  Ole Christensen  Poul Hjorth  Steen Markvorsen  Vedrana Andersen Dahl
Construct	Karen Pantleon	Aminul Islam* Ann Bettina Richelsen* Casper Schousboe Andreasen  Lasse Røngaard* Marcel Somers
Electro	Lars Staalhagen	Lars Staalhagen* Anders Clausen* Finn Agerkvist Henrik Wessing Jens Christian Andersen*  Tiberiu-Gabriel Zsurzsan*
Energy	Felix Trier	Felix Trier Johan Hjelm* Luise Theil Kuhn* Poul Norby*
Engineering Technology	Hanne Løje
Entrepreneurship	Lars Alkærsig
Food	Lene Duedahl-Olesen	Lene Duedahl-Olesen* Marianne Uhre Jakobsen
Health Tech	Kaj-Åge Henneberg	Kaj-Åge Henneberg Anders Kristensen Anja Boisen* Erik Vilain Thomsen* Martin Dufva* Niels Bent Larsen* Rolf Henrik Berg* Torsten Dau*
Management	Ugur Soytas/Dogan Keles	Ugur Soytas Dogan Keles Allan Larsen* Jeppe Rich Stefan Eriksen Mabit*
Nanolab	Christian Danvad Damgaard	Christian Danvad Damsgaard Jakob B. Wagner Rafael Taboryski
Offshore	Simon Ivar Andersen
Physics	Carsten Knudsen	Carsten Knudsen* Henrik Bruus* Mads Brandbyge Peter Bøggild
Space	Sten Schmidl Søbjærg	Peter Brauer* Sten Schmidl Søbjærg*
Sustain	Steffen Foss Hansen	Anders Baun Barth F. Smets* Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen Peter Bauer-Gottwein* Stefan Trapp
Wind	Jenni Rinker/Fabio Pierella	Fabio Pierella Jenni Rinker  Bo Madsen Joachim Holbøll Lars Pilgaard Mikkelsen Niels-Erik Clausen*
* Certified. This person has completed the supervisor course at DTU Learning Lab

• Approve the right participants, i.e. assign who will take UDTU and when.
• Make sure participant has taken Teaching Lab before they begin UDTU.
• Make sure participant has access to a course that they can (re)design during the facilitated part of UDTU (i.e. the course must run in one of the two semesters after the facilitated part of UDTU).
• Keep an up-to-date list of pedagogical supervisors.
• Assign a pedagogical supervisor to each participant.
• Participate in Learning Lab’s didactical lunches.
• Participate in the Capstone Poster event at the beginning of each semester.

• Provide feedback to your assigned UDTU participant during their (re)design of a DTU course.
• Give feedback on their teaching portfolio before they submit it to Learning Lab.
• Give feedback on their capstone poster before they submit it to Learning Lab.
• Stay updated the progress of your UDTU participant.
• Participate in Learning Lab’s didactical lunches.
• Participate in the Capstone Poster event at the beginning of each semester

No, you cannot speed up UDTU. What we can do, is offer a special certificate that states which parts of UDTU you have completed.

You must provide information for who will cover the costs of your attendance at UDTU.

The estimated workload of the UDTU-programme is 250 hours.
The educational programme can be completed within one year.