You will be informed on an ongoing basis via your AU email and Blackboard. You can also find current information for students at Aarhus BSS on this page. In AU’s FAQ for students, you can find information that applies to all AU students.
Everyone at AU can help reduce the spread of COVID-19. It’s a question of our behaviour, together and individually. This is what you can do to help:
You are allowed to use facilities on campus, but we ask that you leave campus no later than 18:00/6pm, unless you are participating in academic activities or scheduled orientation week activities involving a teacher or tutor.
For the moment, no parties or Friday bars may be held on campus.
AU encourages students to use the official contact tracing app smitte|stop, which can assist with contact tracing in the event of an outbreak.
You can now follow the current COVID-19 infection rate at Aarhus BSS, as we have chosen to publish the status of COVID-19 cases among students that are reported via the online form at Aarhus University.
Read the current infection numbers hereAarhus University/Aarhus BSS are striving to ensure that you have the type of examination that normally applies (see the course description) and which you have prepared for. This means that the upcoming winter exams will follow the familiar and originally planned formats, i.e. oral examinations, written on-site exams, and take-home assignments (possibly combined with an in-person oral defence).
Due to special circumstances, a number of exams may be converted into other formats or may take place online via Zoom in regards to oral exams or oral defences. If this is the case, you will be notified of any changes well in advance of the exam, so remember to keep an eye on your study portal, your student email and Blackboard. You can check the study portal to find out how and when your exam will be held under “Exams”. We regularly update this FAQ page with additional information about the winter exams, including the special conditions that apply to people in at-risk groups, students in isolation and incoming and outgoing exchange students who are affected by travel restrictions/quarantine rules, etc.
If you are unsure about how your exams will be conducted or if you have any questions about your situation, you are welcome to contact Aarhus BSS Student Services or the Student Counsellors' Office at Aarhus BSS.
It is important to make clear that students, examiners, co-examiners and the exam supervisors can safely attend in-person exams and that exams are conducted in accordance with health authority guidelines and precautions. Specifically, this means that:
Please also refer to the university’s guidelines for behaviour on campus.
If you are in isolation because a close relation has Covid-19, if you have symptoms of Covid-19, or if you suspect that you may have been infected, you must not attend your exam physically. You can read the general guidelines for how to deal with isolation and suspicion of infection in the section on "Symptoms and infection with coronavirus" on this page.
Oral exam or oral defence
If you have an oral examination, but you are unable to attend due to isolation or symptoms of Covid-19, please contact Aarhus BSS Studies Administration by no later than 7:00 am on the day of your exam. Contact Aarhus BSS Studies Administration via the following email winterexam21.bss@au.dk. Please fill out and attach the AU’s ‘solemn declaration’ form, that you cannot take your exam due to Covid-19-related conditions. We will then investigate whether there is any academic and practical way to offer you your oral exam or oral defence online via Zoom.
Please note that the online exam may be either at the same time as originally planned for your physical examination or at another relevant time or day. You will be contacted by the department responsible for the exam or the defence.
Written exam with physical attendance
If you are going to a written on-site exam at Aarhus BSS, you should not turn up if you are in isolation or have symptoms. Instead, you can be deregistered from your written exam and you can participate in the next re-examination without using up an examination attempt.
To avoid using an examination attempt, you must contact Aarhus BSS Studies Administration by no later than 7:00 am on the day of the exam. Contact Aarhus BSS Studies Administration via the following email winterexam21.bss@au.dk. Please fill out and attach the AU’s ‘solemn declaration’ form, that you cannot take your exam due to Covid-19-related conditions.
Written home assignment
If your exam is a written home test, and if you decide that you can complete your exam, you can participate on an equal footing with other students. Otherwise, follow the guidelines in the section: "Written exams with physical attendance".
If you have tested positive with Covid-19, you must not turn up physically for your exam. If you assess that can take in your exam, please read on below.
If you assess that you cannot take your exam, please follow the guidelines for illness at the exam on this page.
Oral exam or oral defence
If you have an oral examination or oral defence but you are unable to attend because you have tested positive with Covid-19, please contact Aarhus BSS Studies Administration by no later than 7:00 am on the day of your exam. Contact Aarhus BSS Studies Administration via the following email winterexam21.bss@au.dk. Please fill out and attach the AU’s ‘solemn declaration’ form, that you cannot take your exam due to Covid-19-related conditions. In addition, please enclose a picture of your test result from sundhed.dk. The test result must be no more than seven days old. We will then investigate whether there is any academic and practical way to offer you your oral exam or oral defence online via Zoom.
Please note that the online exam may be either at the same time as originally planned for your physical examination or at another relevant time or day. You will be contacted by the department responsible for the exam or the defence.
Written exam with physical attendance
If you are going to a written on-site exam at Aarhus BSS, you should not turn up if you have Covid-19. Instead, you can be deregistered from your written exam and you can participate in the next re-examination without using up an examination attempt.
To avoid using an examination attempt, you must contact Aarhus BSS Studies Administration by no later than 7:00 am on the day of the exam. Contact Aarhus BSS Studies Administration via the following email winterexam21.bss@au.dk. Please fill out and attach the AU’s ‘solemn declaration’ form, that you cannot take your exam due to Covid-19-related conditions. In addition, please enclose a picture of your test result from sundhed.dk. The test result must be no more than seven days old.
Written home assignment
If your exam is a written home test, and if you decide that you can complete your exam, you can participate on an equal footing with other students. Otherwise, follow the guidelines in the section: "Written exams with physical attendance".
If you fall ill in connection with an exam at Aarhus BSS, you should report sick by submitting an application for dispensation via mitstudie.au.dk. This applies regardless of whether it is a Covid-19-related illness or some other illness.
As a general rule:
You can read more about what to do if you are ill during an exam on this page.
Aarhus BSS conducts all exams with physical attendance in accordance with the guidelines from the Danish Health Authority on distancing, hygiene, etc. Once these conditions have been met, according to the authorities' guidelines it is safe to attend.
As a rule, you should therefore attend the exam just as your fellow students.
Naturally, you are very welcome to bring your own protective equipment to the exam if you find it necessary or advisable.
In exceptional circumstances, you can apply for dispensation for specific initiatives in connection with the completion of your exam, e.g. a private room or similar. If your doctor considers this necessary, you should apply for dispensation via mitstudie.au.dk by no later than 10 days before your exam. Remember to attach relevant documentation from your doctor.
Aarhus BSS conducts all exams with physical attendance in accordance with the guidelines from the Danish Health Authority on distancing, hygiene, etc. Once these conditions have been met, according to the authorities' guidelines it is safe to attend.
This means that you are required to attend the exam just as your fellow students. Naturally, you are very welcome to bring your own protective equipment to the exam if you find it necessary or advisable.
If you are abroad, and you cannot be present in Denmark at the time of the exam due to the arrival and quarantine rules in connection with Covid-19, the following rules apply.
Oral exam or oral defence
If you are taking a oral examination or an oral defence but you are unable to participate due to a stay abroad, you must submit an application for dispensation via mitstudie.au.dk by no later than 10 days before the oral examination or defence. Remember to enclose relevant documentation confirming that you are abroad at the time of the exam. This may be a personal statement, plane ticket, etc.
We will then investigate whether there is any academic and practical way to offer you your oral exam or oral defence online via Zoom. Please note that the online exam may be either at the same time as originally planned for your physical examination or at another relevant time or day. You will be contacted by the department responsible for the exam or the defence.
Written exam with physical attendance
If you are taking a written on-site exam at Aarhus BSS but you are unable to participate due to a stay abroad, you must submit an application for dispensation via mitstudie.au.dk by no later than 10 days before the written on-site exam. Remember to enclose relevant documentation confirming that you are abroad at the time of the exam. This may be a personal statement, plane ticket, etc.
You can apply to be deregistered from your written exam and you can participate in the next re-examination without using up an examination attempt.
Written home assignment
If your exam is a written home test, you can participate on an equal footing with other students.
If you have symptoms of COVID-19 (such as fever, coughing, sore throat, headache, muscle aches and breathing difficulties), you must stay away from campus. If you start having symptoms while you’re on campus, go home as quickly as possible. Then you must:
Also read the Danish Health Authority’s brochure for people with COVID-19 symptoms.
AU encourages you to use the official contact tracing app smitte|stop, which is designed to support more distant/peripheral contract tracing. Read more about the app here (in Danish)
If you have tested positive for COVID-19, you will be contacted by the Danish Patient Safety Authority to start contact tracing. It’s important that you:
You will be contacted by AU’s COVID-19 response team to help you and the contact tracing unit from the Danish Patient Safety Authority trace your contacts at Aarhus University and clarify as quickly as possible what steps the university needs to take to prevent the spread of infection. Aarhus University respects and protects the confidentiality of your data.
Read the Danish Health Authority’s brochure for people who test positive for COVID-19.
AU encourages you to use the official contact tracing app smitte|stop, which is designed to support more distant/peripheral contract tracing. Read more about the app here (in Danish)
If you have been in close contact with someone who has symptoms of COVID-19, you should be particularly vigilant about any symptoms you might develop yourself. You should also be particularly careful to follow the healthcare authorities’ general guidelines:
According to the Danish Health Authority, you are a close contact if you:
Read more in the Danish Health Authority’s brochure for people who have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
AU encourages you to use the official contact tracing app smitte|stop, which is designed to support more distant/peripheral contract tracing. Read more about the app here (in Danish)
If you have been in close contact with a person who has tested positive for COVID-19:
According to the Danish Health Authority, you are a close contact if you:
Read more in the Danish Health Authority’s brochure for people who have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
AU encourages you to use the official contact tracing app smitte|stop, which is designed to support more distant/peripheral contract tracing.
If you are unable to come to campus due to conditions directly related to the coronavirus, you can apply for an academic assistant, who will who will help you keep up with your coursework. Please note, if you are interested in applying for an academic assistant, you must be able to document the reason for your needs. The documentation may for example be a doctor's note documenting why you cannot attend onsite tuition. Read more at: academicassistant.au.dk
The AU libraries are open. Please note that AU Library consists of several libraries. Stays in the AU libraries must take place in accordance with the authorities' recommendations. You must therefore follow the recommendations in the relevant library to avoid the spread of Covid-19.
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library at Victor Albecks Vej is also open. Find more information about facilities and services for this specific library at Det Kgl. Biblioteks/Royal Danish Library’s website.
Please note that you still have access to a large amount of electronic resources via library.au.dk, and you also have free access to a number of resources from different publishers, which make their materials available free of charge for a limited period of time.
Feel free to contact the library if you need help.
If you need help adjusting to the current situation and to new forms of teaching and learning, Studypedia has developed some advice for remote learning.
You can also find overall tools for how to improve your life as a student at studerende.au.dk/en/boost-your-student-life/. And finally, you can find five tips for how to tackle the new situation here.
You are always welcome to talk to a student counsellor about your concerns - even though face-to-face meetings are not possible at the moment. On this page, you can read more about how to contact your local student counsellor.
There are also other possibilities:
At the Student Counselling Service, you can get online and telephone counselling. In addition, AU Helpline and the university chaplains are ready to talk to you.
First of all, you need to contact your supervisor for help to complete your Bachelor’s project on time. This might involve adjustments at the theoretical or methodological level, in the literature you draw on or other scientific/scholarly aspects of the project.
If the coronavirus situation is making it difficult for you to finish your project on time, and your supervisor can’t help you find a solution, you can apply for a extension of the submission deadline. In your application, you must describe the specific circumstances resulting from the coronavirus situation that are the reason you need more time.
Your boards of studies can grant extensions. They will assess the best way to compensate you for the time you have lost due to the special circumstances caused by the coronavirus situation. In other words, they can grant extensions of just a few weeks to more than a month.
Here are some examples of the kinds of circumstances the boards of studies will consider legitimate grounds for asking for an extension:
Submit application for an extension
Can extensions on a Bachelor's project be granted to a group?
All board of studies may grant a joint extension to an entire Bachelor’s project group, in cases in which one or more members of the group have been affected by the coronavirus situation.
In your application, you must describe the specific circumstances resulting from the coronavirus situation that are the reason your group needs more time.
The boards of studies will assess the best way to compensate you for the time your group has lost due to the special circumstances caused by the coronavirus situation. In other words, they can grant extensions of just a few weeks to more than a month.
Here are some examples of the kinds of circumstances the boards of studies will consider legitimate grounds for asking for an extension:
All board of studies may grant a joint extension to an entire Bachelor’s project group, in cases in which one or more members of the group have been affected by the coronavirus situation.
In your application, you must describe the specific circumstances resulting from the coronavirus situation that are the reason your group needs more time.
The boards of studies will assess the best way to compensate you for the time your group has lost due to the special circumstances caused by the coronavirus situation. In other words, they can grant extensions of just a few weeks to more than a month.
Here are some examples of the kinds of circumstances the boards of studies will consider legitimate grounds for asking for an extension:
First of all, you need to contact your supervisor for help to complete your thesis on time. This might involve adjustments at the theoretical or methodological level, in the literature you draw on or other scientific/scholarly aspects of the project.
If the coronavirus situation is making it difficult for you to finish your thesis on time, and your supervisor can’t help you find a solution, you can apply for a extension of the deadline. In your application, you must describe the specific circumstances resulting from the coronavirus situation that are the reason you need more time.
Your boards of studies can grant extensions. They will assess the best way to compensate you for the time you have lost due to the special circumstances caused by the coronavirus situation. In other words, they can grant extensions of just a few weeks to more than a month.
Here are some examples of the kinds of circumstances the boards of studies will consider legitimate grounds for asking for an extension:
Submit application for an extension
Can extensions on a Master’s thesis be granted to a group?
All board of studies may grant a joint extension to an entire Master's thesis group, in cases in which one or more members of the group have been affected by the coronavirus situation.
In your application, you must describe the specific circumstances resulting from the coronavirus situation that are the reason your group needs more time.
The boards of studies will assess the best way to compensate you for the time your group has lost due to the special circumstances caused by the coronavirus situation. In other words, they can grant extensions of just a few weeks to more than a month.
Here are some examples of the kinds of circumstances the boards of studies will consider legitimate grounds for asking for an extension:
All board of studies may grant a joint extension to an entire Master's thesis group, in cases in which one or more members of the group have been affected by the coronavirus situation.
In your application, you must describe the specific circumstances resulting from the coronavirus situation that are the reason your group needs more time.
The boards of studies will assess the best way to compensate you for the time your group has lost due to the special circumstances caused by the coronavirus situation. In other words, they can grant extensions of just a few weeks to more than a month.
Here are some examples of the kinds of circumstances the boards of studies will consider legitimate grounds for asking for an extension:
We expect that students who are planning to study abroad in autumn 2020 can carry through their stay as planned. However, the situation changes all the time, and AU encourages everyone to stay updated on the travel advice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (www.um.dk) and to consult the travel advisories issued by the host institution and the authorities in the country you’re planning to travel to. If it becomes impossible for students to study abroad at their chosen destination, they may stay at home and complete the semester at AU instead. It won’t be possible to get an alternative exchange agreement instead. This is both because a lot of students may end up being affected, and because it is not possible to predict whether an alternative destination will be affected by the coronavirus as well. If your host university suggests that you postpone your autumn 2020 stay until spring 2021 and if this is possible according to your academic regulations, this might also be a possibility. Please contact your international coordinator to find out more.
In the event that your stay is cancelled, we will help you as much as we can to find out how you can register for courses at AU in the autumn 2020 semester. AU will demonstrate as much flexibility as possible within the applicable framework.
Aarhus BSS Student Services would like to help you if you have any practical and administrative questions about your degree programme.
You are able to contact us in the following ways:
When you contact us via email, we encourage you to use your AU email (studentnumber@post.au.dk). Please remember to state your full name and degree programme.
2020.11.27 | Students
For full-time students on their Master's degree programme, as well as students at BDE and GMM who are registered for the Master's thesis or a project-based internship in the autumn semester 2020.
2020.11.27 | Students
Do you have a reexamination this semester? Remember to register by no later than February 5, 2021.
2020.10.23 | Students
The study environment survey 2020 has now landed in your e-boks and AU inbox. With your answers, you can help make a difference for yourself and your fellow students. The survey covers topics such as well-being, feedback, stress, loneliness, the physical surroundings, harassment and much more.
Fill out and submit AU’s COVID-19 form to notify your local studies administration office.
Aarhus BSS Student Services would like to help you if you have any practical and administrative questions about your degree programme.
You are able to contact us in the following ways:
When you contact us via email, we encourage you to use your AU email (studentnumber@post.au.dk). Please remember to state your full name and degree programme.