Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV)
Member Academies
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ATV – the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences – combines the prestige of a national Academy with the ambition of making Denmark one of the five leading Science and Engineering regions in the world. ATV is an independent think tank that utilise the combined knowledge of our more than 800 Fellows and partner members – for the benefit of future generations.
Identity
Carsten TOFT BOESEN
President, ATV & CEO, NIRAS
The president’s mandate began on 2023, and lasts until 2026
Founding date: 1937
Number of Fellows and Associate Fellows:
Fellows: 720
Partner members: 114
Percentage of women among Fellows and Associate Fellows:
Fellows: 20,4 %
Partner members: 23,7 %
Number of staff:
20
Annual budget:
19.8 million DKK (app 2.6 million EUR)
Financing sources:
– Government Support: 0 %
– Partner fees from industry, universities and research institutions: 20 %
– Project finances: 80 %
Bilateral relations with other member academies of Euro-CASE:
No formal agreements but informal coordination and collaboration with e.g. RAEng, IVA, and acatech
Academy is member of:
CAETS
Committees / Main working groups
All ATV’s Committees are cross disciplinary. Currently, the following groups are convened:
– Future of Production
– Technology for Sustainability
– Digitalization
– Technology and Society
– Life Science Technology
Principal objectives 2025 and key realisations 2024
2025:
Continue our dialogue with the Danish government regarding a Danish technology strategy and deliver on the goals of our lighthouse project ‘Guide to a Resilient Denmark’.
2024:
Successful conclusion of the first Mission Labs in the Guide to a Resilient Denmark-project, increase dialogue with government on the need for a technology strategy e.g. in connection with our Annual Meeting, Technology Summit, and through other related activities.
Next academy annual event
21 May 2025
Highlights 2020-2021
2020
- Notable publications include ‘State of the Nation 2020: Denmark as Science & Engineering Region’, ‘Whitepaper on the use of AI in Healthcare’, ‘Can the SDG’s be used to evaluate technology?’, and ‘The future of sustainable production’.
- August, ATV launched its report on The World’s Leading Tech Regions and welcomed its new Chairman Mr. Anders Bjarklev, President, Denmark’s Technical University; At the Technology Summit in November, ATV gathered stakeholders from policy, industry and university to discuss a Technology Strategy for Denmark post-COVID-19 called Denmark 5.0.
- June: Professor Brian Vad Mathiesen, Aalborg University was admitted to the SAPEA working group on ‘A systemic approach to the energy transition in Europe’. In addition, ATV Fellows have joined various European meetings and working groups on COVID-19 related topics, e.g. protective equipment, air circulation in buildings to prevent spreading of the decease and methods to trace chains of infection.
- In the Autumn, ATV received funding from the Danish Industry Foundation to establish Danish Center for Energy Storage which joins all key stakeholders in the field around the common goal of Danish research and innovation in the field.
2021
- January: ATV launched Danish Centre for Energy Storage, DaCES. A project to unite researchers, business developers, the corporate world, etc. Created for coordinating efforts in developing energy storage technologies.
- January: ATV published an executive summary in English of the report “The World’s Leading Tech Regions – Testing Denmark’s Capacity in Tech”.
- April: ATV published the report “Sustainable Production of the Future, a Baseline”. In cooperation with the Danish Industry Foundation, we have developed a baseline for measuring sustainability by way of five indicators that will make the transition concrete and operational. The five indicators are CO2 emissions, energy consumption, resource consumption, water consumption, and waste generation. The baseline enables businesses to go from speaking of sustainable transition to measuring it.
- May: at ATV’s annual assembly, we discussed the importance of technology for gearing up Danish economy after the COVID-19 crisis. The government was involved at a high level by participation of the Danish Minister for Finance. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, the meeting was video-broadcasted with only the panelists and speakers present in the ‘studio’. In connection with the meeting, ATV published our annual State of the Nation report on Denmark as a Science & Engineering region.
- June: ATV published a State of the Nation report for the digital business area.
- August: ATV had a study trip to regional growth areas in Denmark. We had dialogue with researchers, business developers, and investors about tech developments in Denmark.
November: ATV held a tech summit where we summarized the results of ATV’s 5-year project on Science & Engineering. The results are compiled in the report “Vision for Danmark 2030”.