Come to Roskilde Festival with DTU

As part of your engineering degree at DTU, you can turn your ideas into reality at one of Europe's biggest music festivals.

Foto: Ditte Valente

Every year, the Roskilde Festival is used as a giant laboratory by DTU students. They test innovative and sustainable technical solutions for everything from water supply and waste sorting to acoustics, accessibility, energy consumption and material recycling.

All DTU students can submit project ideas or propose solutions to challenges posed by the Roskilde Festival. Each project is assigned a supervisor and you receive ECTS points for your work as a student.

Over time, several projects have become a regular part of the festival.

Would you like to help make Roskilde Festival greener and more fun? Study engineering at DTU and become part of the team!

Educations at DTU

Examples of student projects

Sleepy by Behag. 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. Student project for Roskilde Festival 2023. Photo: Ditte Valente.
Alcohol-test. A 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. Student project for Roskilde Festival 2023. Photo: Ditte Valente.
Scaffolding mattress. Scaffolding tarpaulin recycled into air mattresses that can be used as an alternative to the tonnes of PVC mattresses left behind at Roskilde Festival each year. Student project for Roskilde Festival 2023. Photo: Ditte Valente.
Fungi Plugs. Sustainable noise reduction earplugs - designed, produced and disposed of in a way that has minimal impact on the environment and society. DTU students test biodegradable earplugs made from fungi. Student project for Roskilde Festival 2023. Photo: Ditte Valente.
BigSun. A mechanical tower that registers and displays the current UV index to remind festival goers of the risk of sunburn. An accompanying app informs about the UV index and - based on skin type - warns the user when it's time to pay extra attention to the sun. Student project for Roskilde Festival 2022. Photo: Ditte Valente.
Foundly. An app that helps festival goers find lost items. You can use the app to ask for things you have lost, as well as to report when you have found things that others have lost or forgotten.. Student project for Roskilde Festival 2022. Photo: Ditte Valente.
StandTogether. A table designed for standing - making room for more people. Different height levels accommodate children, people with reduced mobility and people of below-average height, creating an inclusive space for diverse groups. Student project for Roskilde Festival 2022. Photo: Ditte Valente.
Glowing Connection. An interactive light display in the Paper Pavilion, the heart of the DTU Techlab. The colour of each lamp is individually controlled via a website, inviting users to actively participate and leave their mark on the festival. Student project for Roskilde Festival 2022. Photo: Ditte Valente.
Save energy. The large number of refrigerated containers used to keep food cold is one of the biggest energy guzzlers at Roskilde Festival - and the potential to save energy is correspondingly large. A student project from Roskilde Festival 2022 shows that it is possible to minimise the energy consumption of refrigerated containers by up to 41 percent. Photo: Ditte Valente.

Roskilde Festival and DTU's partnership

  • The Technical University of Denmark and Roskilde Festival started the partnership in 2010.
  • The aim is to bolster engineering students’ study programmes and develop solutions to the many engineering challenges at the festival.
  • Every year DTU engages more than 100 students with projects at the festival.
  • The students will typically earn five ECTS points in the course of the project period.
  • The collaboration has given the DTU students behind the start-ups Volt, DropBucket, Kubio, and PeeFence a platform for testing their technology before they started their enterprises.

About Roskilde Festival


The Roskilde Festival is a Danish music festival held annually south of Roskilde. It is one of the largest music festivals in Europe and the largest in the Nordic countries.

The festival attracts some of the world's biggest stars and most promising artists, 100.000 guests and 30.000 volunteers every year.

During the event, Roskilde Festival is Denmark's fifth largest city - built in only 2 weeks. This provides a wide range of technical issues that need innovative, theoretical and efficient thinking to solve.

 

From theory to practice

Do you want to turn your knowledge into solutions? Do you want to develop your engineering skills? At DTU we offer several interdisciplinary student projects where you can work with other students to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems.

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More information

info@roskilde.dtu.dk