In connection with your appointment as an ordinary or clinical professor, you will receive an email from HE HR, in which they offer you the opportunity to give an inaugural lecture. If you accept the offer, you should start planning the event.

If you are a professor WITH clinical affiliation, you must coordinate and ensure participation of the following:

• Your department management
• The local hospital management (Note: At AUH, the hospital management only participate at clinical professor & chair inaugurations)
• A representative from DCM's management
• Who you wish to invite

If you are a professor WITHOUT clinical affiliation, you must coordinate and ensure participation of the following:

• Your immediate DCM or AU manager
• A representative from DCM's management
• Who you wish to invite

You or a local secretary/professor's secretary should ensure to book an auditorium for the event. Ask a local secretary for advice.

List of AU auditoriums

You or a local secretary/professor's secretary must book a room for a subsequent reception, if any.

Note: Your own department management or research unit are hosting the event and must cover the expenses.

No later than 4 weeks prior to the inaugural lecture:

• You, your local secretary, or the department management draft and send out the invitation. It must be in both Danish and English.
• If you are a professor with clinical affiliation (or clinical professor), you are responsible for inviting the following:
  • At least 1 representative from your hospital management
  • The management team of your clinical department
  • Colleagues and friends, you wish to invite
• If you wish to announce the lecture broadly at DCM, you can send the final invitation to:
  • Communication specialist, Jakob Binderup Christensen, who will publish it on the event calendar at DCM's staff portal.
  • Medical illustrator, Ken Peter Kragsfeldt, who will upload the invitation to the info screens at DCM.

⇒ Template inspiration for the invitation - Danish | English

A DCM management representative will be welcoming you and the guests and say a few words about you as a short introduction. To support this introduction, we ask you to provide information about your research area as well as the name of one or more colleagues/or others you collaborate with, and can supply with some personal information about you.

To obtain this, DCM's secretary will send you a form in due time prior to the lecture and ask you to complete this. But feel free to complete the form right away.

In most cases, it will be DCM's head of department who welcomes at the inaugural lecture.

Note: Your own department management or research unit are hosting the event and must cover the expenses.