Internship — Other Fields

You can be granted a residence permit as an intern in Denmark if you meet two conditions: You are enrolled in an educational programme in your home country or in a country where you have been a legal resident, and there are specific educational reasons for your internship in Denmark.

Other fields, such as natural sciences, technical fields, pharmaceutical sector, culture, etc.

You must be at least 18 years old but cannot have turned 35 at the time of applying. The internship must supplement the educational programme you have begun or completed in your home country or in the country where you have been a legal resident.

The internship must have a professional connection to your educational programme. In cases where your educational programme does not in itself support a professional connection to the internship, you must have passed a sufficient amount of subjects relevant to the internship, so that the subjects make up one semester’s worth of credits.

Your place of internship must be qualified to receive and train an intern. If a place of internship approval is not issued within the field in question, your place of internship must submit a description of the course of the internship. In addition, your place of internship must state who will be responsible for you during the internship and state whether the firm has experience with taking on interns or trainees.

Your place of internship must submit a description of your tasks and a training plan along with the application.

You must be employed on terms that follow the applicable Danish collective agreements. This includes being employed full time and typically working 37 hours a week.

If your internship is paid, salary and terms of employment must correspond to Danish collective agreements for interns.

You must be at least 18 years old but cannot have turned 35 at the time of applying.

The internship must supplement the educational programme you have begun or completed in your home country or in the country where you have been a legal resident.

The internship must have a professional connection to your educational programme. In cases where your educational programme does not in itself support a professional connection to the internship, you must have passed a sufficient amount of subjects relevant to the internship, so that the subjects make up one semester’s worth of credits. It is not a requirement that all the relevant subjects are passed in the same semester.

If you graduated more than one and a half years ago, we will assess whether there continues to be a relation between the desired internship and your completed education.

If you are employed in a paid internship, your salary and terms of employment must follow the applicable Danish collective agreements.

If your internship is without pay, you must provide documentation of your ability to support yourself during the full period of your internship. You must have an amount at your disposal corresponding to DKK 7,426 (2026 level) for each month you will be staying in Denmark.

You can only work in the position and in the place of internship that you have been granted a permit to work in.

Your work permit is limited to the internship that your permit is granted for. You must not work in other positions than the one stated on your permit. This also applies if you are offered a new position at the same workplace.

Normally, you are not allowed to bring your family with you to Denmark with a residence permit as an intern.

If you are an intern within the healthcare sector, architecture or other fields, you can be granted a residence and work permit valid for up to 18 months. However, the validity period cannot exceed the length of the internship.

If you have several consecutive internship residences in Denmark, i.e. if you change internship host while you are in Denmark, the total duration of your stay may not exceed 18 months.

If your internship is extended, you can apply for an extension of your residence and work permit.