Companies that affiliate students in project-based internships can give them an acknowledgement to show their appreciation. As a student you may receive an acknowledgement in addition to your monthly student grant (SU). You can find the current amount on the website of the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science.

A project-based internship forms part of your education as it is an integrated part of the courses constituting your degree programme. Therefore, students are eligible to receive SU while they take part in a project-based internship. Please note, as a student you cannot accept a salary during your project-based internship. This also applies if you give up your SU.

Students cannot expect to receive a permanent monthly acknowledgement from the company. Furthermore, you cannot make an agreement on beforehand that ensures a monthly acknowledgement
However, the student and the company can make an agreement from which it appears that the student can receive an acknowledgement for her/his efforts.

Find more information about rules on this website: State Educational Grant

You are allowed to receive a minor reimbursement from the host organisation to cover any increased costs of living. However, it must not appear from the documentation that you were paid during the project-based internship.

A number of countries (e.g. France and Germany) have legislation that requires companies to disburse a salary to students when they work for the company as part of a project-based internship. Students can receive the salary constituted by law, if they participate in a project-based internship in one of the countries where salaries are required. However, it is important to emphasize that the student cannot receive SU while they also receive a salary from the place of internship.

Students must at all times be able to document that it is a legal requirement before they are allowed to receive salary in connection with a project-based internship.