Get a student of Digital Concept Development as an intern

Get new perspectives for your digital business development

An intern is a wonderful opportunity to resolve concrete tasks and at the same time meet an almost completely educated Digital Concept Development bachelor who is able to look at the company’s areas of work with a different set of eyes.

Internships are in the third semester, after 1 year of study.

With an internship agreement you get:

extra manpower for planning, design and development of digital concepts that can create and sustain your business on digital platforms
the opportunity to try out a prospective employee in practice
the opportunity to provide a student with valuable practical experience.

Most interns write their bachelor project for the company during their internship. The bachelor project is a good opportunity for the company to clarify a particular area e.g., implement a specific analysis or get extra resources for a current development task.

What type of work can you expect an intern to carry out?

The intern can be included in work to develop practical digital solutions which focus on communication, user experiences and e-commerce.

Below you can see some examples of possible internship assignments and bachelor projects:

Developing applications – from concept to design, construction and testing
Analysing digital applications with focus on increasing synergies with other media applications
Branding the company on several online platforms
Concept development for cross-media or digital media
Develop a cross-media design strategy
Create and develop digital services
Perform segment analysis and collect data for business development
Optimise e-commerce solutions

In addition to this, the intern can help with other miscellaneous tasks and should be included in the department’s regular daily routines.

Planning of the internship period

The cooperative relationship between the student and the company will of course vary from company to company. What is important is a positive and ambitious attitude towards the cooperation from both parties.

We have compiled some good advice that will help you as well as the student to benefit as much as possible from the internship.

Student and company adjust expectations prior to the internship period. This involves tasks to be performed, working hours and other expectations to ensure mutually satisfactory cooperation.
Always feel free to contact the student’s internship counsellor at the Academy for inspiration, information or advice concerning the internship. The student is completing an internship in order to learn. Make sure you provide a good mixture of tasks of both a challenging and also a more routine-based nature. Some are able to handle a lot of responsibility from day one, others need a more careful dosage.
It is recommended to link the student to one or more contacts throughout the internship, individuals who can help guide, inspire and motivate the student.
Think about and discuss what a good subject could be for the student’s final exam project. Some agree on the subject at an early stage, whereas others wait until they know each other a little better.
Introduce the student to the entire company, look at the intern as a ‘fully accepted’ member of the team.
Be proactive – talk to the student or the Academy if something is not quite as expected.

The student, the company and Business Academy Aarhus will sign an internship agreement prior to the internship.

To ensure the right match between students and companies, we have compiled a list of requirements to internship companies (pdf)

When and for how long?

Get an intern for free

As the internship is a part of an educational programme, your company is not obliged to pay a salary to the intern.

The company is allowed to give the student a ‘token’ payment of up to 3375 DKK per month.

Subsidies for transport, rent and a phone, which the student can document are related to the internship, can be given without affecting the student's educational grant (SU).

Declaration of secrecy

A student who becomes aware of trade secrets during his/her internship may not share or use this information without prior approval as stipulated in the Commercial Secrets Act, §4.

Business Academy Aarhus employees and external co-examiners who are involved with internships are also covered by §4 of the Commercial Secrets Act, just as they have a duty of confidentiality pursuant to Chapter 8, Section §27 of the Public Administration Act.

Insurance

If the internship takes place in a company in Denmark, the student is covered by the act on worker's compensation (lov om arbejdsskadesikring), cf. Ministerial Order no.185 from 23 February 2017, and by the act on liability for damages (lov om erstatningsansvar).

It is therefore the internship company’s responsibility to insure the intern, just as all other employees are insured. Associations and sole proprietors are also covered by the duty to insure, even if you don’t have any other employees.

If the internship takes place in a company outside of Denmark, then it is the student's responsibility to examine and assess whether he or she can be covered by the company's insurance policies. In cases where the student is not covered by the company's insurance, the student must ensure that they have any necessary insurance.

Facts about the programme

The Bachelor's degree in Digital Concept Development is a top-up for multimedia designers and computer science graduates – developed in cooperation with advertising agencies, web agencies and e-commerce companies.

The programme takes 1 ½ years and qualifies the student to develop digital concepts for different platforms. The students are able to implement strategic considerations about how digital concepts support the company’s operations and business development, and they can create practical solutions which focus on communication and user experiences.

This programme has both a Danish-language and an English-language programme. On the English programme, we have both Danish students and international students who have come to Denmark to study. The specialisation options on the two programmes are identical.