Stricter rules for enrolling PhD students with foreign grants
PhD students with foreign cost-of-living grants must be guaranteed an amount equal to 2 x SU per month without the use of hourly employment at UCPH. All PhD students must also pay tuition fees.
From the turn of the year, new principles for the financing of international PhD programmes will take effect at UCPH. The principles are designed to clarify how the individual courses are financed and to ensure that PhD students with foreign cost-of-living grants have the appropriate conditions during their course of study.
The new principles set a common minimum for the foreign cost-of-living grants that the PhD students bring. They must be at least double the amount of an SU (currently corresponding to DKK 12,794).
No more topping up with hourly salary
It will no longer be possible for UCPH to offer to top up a lower grant with employment at an hourly rate, for example through teaching or laboratory work. If a lower scholarship is to be topped up, it must be done without UCPH involvement via financing from e.g. a private company or a foundation.
It will also not be possible to enroll a PhD student with a foreign cost-of-living grant, where UCPH must cover the PhD student's tuition fees via basic funds or existing external funds. PhD students must be guaranteed funding to pay tuition as well as an appropriate cost-of-living grant.
The Graduate School can grant exemptions in 2023
The new rules take effect on 1 January 2023, In the first year, it will be possible for the individual head of the Graduate School to grant exemptions in individual cases, but from 2024 all PhD enrolment must comply with the new principles.