How to apply for recognition of your qualifications
There are several ways of having your foreign qualifications assessed and recognised in Denmark.
How do you plan to use your qualifications?
Job search
You may find an assessment from the Danish Agency for Universities and Internationalisation helpful when looking for a job.
Admission to higher education
Find out about your possibilities of entering Danish higher education on the basis of a foreign qualification.
Regulated professions
If you wish to practise a regulated profession, you need an authorisation or similar recognition by the competent public authority.
Admission to vocational education and training
Find out about your possibilities of entering Danish vocational education and training on the basis of a foreign qualification.
Teachers with non-Danish qualifications
If you have qualified as a teacher outside Denmark and wish to teach in the Danish Folkeskole or upper secondary school.
Admission to upper secondary education
Find out whether you can start upper secondary education in Denmark on the basis of your foreign education.
Unemployment fund membership
Some unemployment funds require a foreign education assessment before you can become a member.
Credit transfer
If you continue your studies in Denmark, you may be able to transfer credit from studies you have already done in your home country.
Pay grading
If you are appointed to a position in the public sector under the agreement for state employed graduates (the AC agreement), you may need an assessment.
Competence assessment
If you have competences other than documented qualifications you may be able to have them assessed and recognised, in particular within the Danish Adult Education System.
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Jan 09, 2012
