Who is covered?

Insurance for employees at the Department

Persons employed to work in Denmark are covered under the following conditions:

  • There must be a contract of employment (written or verbal).
  • The contract of employment may be permanent, temporary or transient.
  • AU must benefit directly from the work performed by the person concerned. It must be a work effort that completely or partially replaces another otherwise necessary labor or contributes to AU’s tasks/projects.
  • AU has instructional authority towards the person. This means that AU determines the nature of the work, the extent of the work, as well as where and when it should be performed.
  • Work can be paid or unpaid.
  • Persons employed to work in this country, but who are on long or short-term work related travel, are covered by the Workers’ Compensation Act during a foreign stay. The determining factor is whether the person has performed work in Denmark and that it is intended for the employee to return to Denmark to work.

Students and visiting researchers at AU

  • As a rule, students and visiting researchers are not covered by the Workers’ Compensation Act. In cases where students/visiting researchers are working on an assignment for the university (working in the university's interest and under instruction), any injury resulting from this work may be considered a work related injury.
  • For Ph.D. students, a distinction is mad as to whether they are employed, or enrolled without being employed (e.g. the first part of the 4+4 scheme).
    • Enrolled Ph.D. students are treated as other employees and are, thus, covered by the Workers’ Compensation Act.
    • Enrolled non-employed Ph.D. students are treated as other students and should therefore take out their own full-time liability and accident insurance.
    • As a rule, industrial Ph.D. students are not covered by the Workers’ Compensation Act. However, in cases where they are performing work for Aarhus University, they are covered during the period in question.