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Sustainability is an important focus area for KEA, so we continually sort our waste. As a student, you can help to ensure that KEA’s waste is recycled in the most environmentally friendly way by using the containers placed in classrooms, communal areas and workshops. The main fractions are card and cardboard, paper, plastics, deposit bottles and cans, ordinary refuse and environmentally hazardous waste.

Contact the employees in the respective labs if you have special waste.

Please write to Service Desk (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - remember to write from your KEA-mail), if you need to have large quantities of waste removed such as cardboard or packaging. Or if you need discarded materials such as clean cardboard, pallets etc. for a project.

When you are about to graduate, there are several practical things you need to be aware of - including signing up for an unemployment fund (a-kasse).

We have created a to-remember list for you who will soon graduate:

✔ Sign up for an unemployment fund (a-kasse)

• No later than 12 months before you finish your education, you must register with an unemployment fund (it is typically free to be a student member) to obtain the right to unemployment benefits from the first day of unemployment and avoid a quarantine period of four weeks. If you do not register until you have finished, you will not be entitled to unemployment benefits until four weeks later.
• You must register with the unemployment insurance fund no later than 14 days after you finish your last exam. If you sign up later, you are only entitled to unemployment benefits after one year of membership.
• If you have signed up for an unemployment insurance fund 12 months before you finish your education, you must also meet a 14-day deadline - you must change from a student member to a graduate member.
• Talk to your unemployment fund if you want to continue in your study job after graduation. It can have consequences for your right to unemployment benefits.

✔ Consider whether you want to be a member of a union (fagforening)

• Trade unions agree on pay and working conditions with the employer and establish collective agreements so that you are guaranteed minimum wage, parental leave, holiday etc.
• Trade unions can also give you advice in relation to work-related issues, as well as give you feed back on employment contracts and pay conditions.
• You pay a membership fee to be a member. It is not mandatory to be a member of a union and you are free to choose exactly the one you want.

✔ Graduates with special needs/disability

• If you have a disability or special needs, it is important that you talk to the unemployment insurance fund about your specific situation when you graduate from KEA.
• Your municipality’s job centre is obliged to provide you with advice, and we recommend that you contact them before you complete your education so that you know your rights.

✔ Join KEA's Alumni

KEA Alumne is a free network for you who have graduated from KEA. The network gives you the opportunity to keep in touch with KEA by meeting, reuniting or revisiting former fellow students and strengthen your professional network and your career.

Go to KEA Alumne

✔ Use KEA's job portal

As a student or graduate, you can use our job portal. The job portal allows you to see job openings that are relevant to you. You can create a job agent that selects the most relevant ads for you.

Go to the Job Portal

✔ Use KEA's Study and Career Guidance

The career guidance is based on your specific and personal life situation as well as your competencies, dreams and challenges. At the same time, we help you with tools to handle challenges and make informed choices. We talk about your KEA-skills and how you can apply them in your future career.

Read more at Study and Career Guidance

At KEA, we have a strong focus on environmental measures and green initiatives. Facility & IT strives to be both energy-conscious and to provide a good working environment. As an employee or a student at KEA, you can support the initiatives by remembering to switch off the lights when you leave your workplace, by sorting your waste into the available containers and not throwing e.g. cigarette butts on the ground.

If you have any suggestions for environmental improvements, please feel free to write to the Service Desk (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - remember to write from your KEA-mail). 

KEA is member of DAKOFA, Waste and Resource Network Denmark. As a student at KEA you can become a member of several networks, e.g. within textile and construction waste, and sign up for seminars and conferences at a reduced price of 550 DKK. When registering for an event or network, you must create a user profile and remember to provide the following information: name, programme, student at Copenhagen School of Design and Technology (KEA).

If you have any questions about the membership, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Collaboration is an essential part of KEA’s programmes. When you’ve completed your study, you’ll be able to be a part of team work and project work. You’ll have learned to cooperate with people from other professions and other nationalities as well as with different clients and partners. That’s why a lot of your study includes project and group work, and why many exams are about group projects which you cannot carry out on your own.  Therefore you must feel like - and be prepared to make group and project work a priority during your study.

By working with projects you will also learn about personal leadership and structuring your time and your tasks. In addition, you will learn to work with your social competencies.

You must be active as a student and your attendance must be stable. This is because many of KEA’s programmes are relatively short and a lot of the curricula is learned though projects in groups and in KEA’s labs.  In general, you must accomplish your study according to the ordinary conditions in the established framework of the programmes.

If you want to know more, feel free to contact KEA Study and Career Guidance at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

You can book a group room via the Service Portal at KEA. The rooms can be used for various study activities e.g. group work, meetings, study groups etc.

You can find the group rooms here: SERVICEPORTAL.KEA.DK

Log in with your KEA login and find group rooms here: My Service Portal -> New Reservation -> Book a Room -> Book a Group Room

Rules for using group rooms:

• Please make sure to only book the time you need so that as many people as possible can enjoy the group rooms
• Please make sure to always leave the room as you would like to receive it yourself – take out the garbage and other belongings when you leave the room
• The rooms can only be used by KEA students