Best internship company for 2026 wanted!
Students from the Academy’s 29 higher education programmes can now nominate their internship company as Denmark's best internship company.
Business Academy Aarhus invites all former and current interns – both Danish and international – to participate in the Danish Championships (DC) for internships with their internship company.
Internships are the DNA of business academies
‘With the DC for internships, we focus on the valuable cooperation with the companies and the practical education process, which is the DNA of the academies,’ says Rector Anne Storm Rasmussen.
The competition presents a perfect opportunity for the students to give their internship company a pat on the back.
‘It is in their internship that students seriously test their competencies and turn knowledge into value. For many, their internship also opens the door to a job,’ says Rector Anne Storm Rasmussen.
About DC for internships
The students nominate the company where they did their internship. Students from AP programmes or bachelor’s programmes who have completed an internship in the autumn of 2025 or the spring of 2026 can participate via our digital nomination form.
The internships are assessed according to:
- personal and professional development
- the social experience
- the ability to transform knowledge into value
You can nominate your internship company until Wednesday, 25 March 2026.
How to participate
If you did your internship in the academic year 2025-2026, you can digitally nominate your internship company. The selection of the five initial nominees is based on your nominations, so concrete examples and reasons are really important.
International students can use the same form in an English-language version.
Selection of winners
A jury will then select the Academy’s winner in April 2026. The winner represents Business Academy Aarhus at the national final on Wednesday, 20 May 2025, at Scandic Kødbyen in Copenhagen, along with the winners from the country’s other six academies.
20.000 kr. up for grabs
There is a cash prize of DKK 10,000 for the winner, as well as two other prizes of DKK 5,000, sponsored by HK Denmark and TL, respectively.
See the video (2:04) about the competition: (only in Danish)
Aarhus interns are often at the top of the podium
The competition was held for the first time in 2016 and students from Business Academy Aarhus are often represented on the award’s podium at the national final.
- In 2024, Urban Landscape Development student Emma Katballe and OKNygaard won the Audience Award after winning the best internship award at Business Academy Aarhus.
- In 2023, at Scandic Kødbyen in Copenhagen, Financial Management and Services student Sofie Jonasen and Normal won the Audience Award, after winning the best internship award at Business Academy Aarhus.
- In 2022, at the Confederation of Danish Industry in Copenhagen, computer scientist Maria Nielsen and Vertica won the main prize AND the Audience’s Award after winning the best Internship award at Business Academy Aarhus.
- In 2021, at the final at Centraværksted in Aarhus, Agro Business and Landscape Management student, Michelle Nielsen and Danish Agro, won the main prize AND the Audience’s Award, after winning the best internship award at Business Academy Aarhus.
- In 2019, at the final in Børsen in Copenhagen, our Financial Management and Services student Louise Kjær Petersen and Ramboll Management Consulting won the Jury’s Special Prize, after winning the best internship award at Business Academy Aarhus.
- In 2018, at the final in LEGO House in Billund, our Financial Management and Services' student Daniel Vistisen and the accounting company EY Aarhus won the main prize, after winning the best internship award at Business Academy Aarhus.
- In 2016, at the final at the Odense Congress Center, our International Sales and Marketing student Mads Fuglsang Hedegaard and Dansk Supermarked Group won the main prize, after winning the best internship award at Business Academy Aarhus.