Checklist

• Register for a CPR number and MitID

  CPR number

  When you arrive in Denmark to start your work at SDU, it is important that you contact the relevant authorities in the correct order to get registered at the National Registration Office and to obtain a CPR number and a health card.

  You can get registered at your local municipality´s citizen service center. If you live in Odense, Aarhus, Aalborg or Copenhagen, you can visit the International Citizen Service(ICS) where you will find all the services you need in one place.

  When you have registered, you will be issued a CPR number and you will receive a yellow health insurance card in the mail within 30 days.

  You will be covered by Danish health care as soon as you get the CPR number, so you need to make sure that you are sufficiently covered by a private insurance or by the Blue European Health Insurance Card from another EU-country in the period of time until you get registered.

  MitID

  MitID is a common secure login, which is used for public services and online banking.

  You can obtain MitID through personal appearance at a citizen service center, when you have received your yellow health card. 

  Find more information about MitID here
• Register with the Danish Tax Agency

  The welfare system in Denmark is mostly financed via taxes.

  Foreign employees are usually covered by social security in Denmark, and when you live and work in Denmark you must therefore pay taxes to the Danish State. These taxes contributes to the Danish welfare system which includes healthcare, childcare and education.
  When you have arrived and registered in Denmark, you should therefore register with the Danish Tax Agency.

   

  Read more about tax here
• Open a bank account

  When you arrive in Denmark to start your work at SDU, you need to set up a Danish bank account as soon as possible. This enables SDU to transfer your salary to you.

  To establish an account at a Danish bank you must first get a CPR number and receive your yellow health card. The bank can then help you set up a NemKonto, which is a public payment system that enables the authorities to transfer money to you.

  Read more about NemKonto here

  If you do not take up residence in Denmark and get a CPR-number you can have your foreign bank account assigned as a Nemkonto.

  You can find the registration form and the instructions here

  How to open a Danish bank account

  There are many different banks in Denmark , and to open a bank account, just contact the bank you find relevant to you .

  The following documentation is needed for setting up an account:

  • Passport
  • Tax card
  • Employment contract or enrollment letter
  • Payslip or documentation for scholarship
  • TIN or national identification number.

  Find more information about TIN here

• Digital Post

  If you have a Danish CPR number you will receive Digital Post from public authorities in an online mailbox. 

  It is your responsibility to check your digital post frequently.

  Read more about Digital Post here
• Exchange your driver's license

  Driver's licenses issued in a non-EU/EEA country

  If you have a non-EU/EEA driver's licence, you may be required to exchange it for a Danish driver's licence within 180 days of arriving in Denmark.

  Driver's licenses issued in an EU/EEA country

  You do not need to convert a driver's licence that was issued in an EU country, Iceland, Lichtenstein or Norway.

  Find more information on exchanging your driver's license here
• Private insurance

  In Denmark the public health care system is tax-financed and the vast majority of health services are free of charge for the users, such as hospital services and visits to general practitioners.

  However, it is your own responsibility to take out private insurances on certain other areas while you are staying in Denmark, e.g. accident insurance, travel insurance etc.

  Read more about the different types of insurances
• Unemployment insurance

  In Denmark, you can take out unemployment insurance by applying for admission to an unemployment insurance fund (a-kasse). This is not a requirement - it is optional.

  Read more about unemployment insurance
• Learn Danish

  SDU is a parallel language workplace, where both Danish and English are used as working languages. This is why, in cooperation with the language centers, we offer our new international employees a variety of special and customised Danish language courses. Our courses are publicly financed but adapted to the needs of university staff.

  If you are interested in learning Danish on arrival, we offer courses in all of our campus cities. Accompanying partners can also attend Danish classes by paying a deposit.

  Read more about Danish courses
• Choose a dentist

  You can choose freely between all practicing dentists in Denmark, and are required to cover all dental expenses yourself. However, a minor state subsidy is deducted as part of the Danish public healthcare reimbursement scheme, before you receive your dental invoice.

  Children and young people below 18 years of age are entitled to free dental treatment.

  If you have an accident involving teeth there are emergency dentists open outside normal opening hours.

  Please find contact information for the emergency dentist in the region of Southern Denmark here