Presentation guide for new students coming to Aalborg

1. How to start up your life
in Aalborg
SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR THE NEW STUDENTS

2. Agenda for today
• introduction
• job searching, CV, networking
• KUL ( regular events, program for the next season)
• Danish classes (Elsk Aalborg, EUC Nord, Sprogskole)
• Sport activities (gyms, climbing wall, running club, cycling club, swimming)
• Volunteering student friendly organisations (1000Fryd, Studenthouse, Cycle20, European youth,
Start up cafe)
• questions

3. Student jobs in Aalborg
• not easy to find, be patient
•SU (43 hours/month of work)
•CV
•LinkedIn
•Networking
• if you can´t find a job, be active as a volunteer

4. KUL Nordkraft
Økologisk cafe/teahouse
• smartly placed (city centre, gym, Bifen cinema)
• student friendly prices
• residence of Amnesty international
• bord games, digital illusion
• regular events – second hand clothes/vinyl/books bazars, documentary evenings, concerts
• (low budget) travel presentations, danish practise
• next season starts on 19th September with a clothes bazaar (18:30-22:00)
https://www.facebook.com/events/598075247040078/
• first documentary evening on 29nd of September at 19:00 (Grizzly man)
•https://www.facebook.com/kulnordkraft/?fref=hovercard

5. Videos
• Bazaar
• Documentary night ( Grizzly man)
• Digital illusion

6. Danish classes in Aalborg
• free of charge
• Elsk Aalborg, https://www.facebook.com/elskaalborginternational/?fref=ts
• EUC Nord ( students at UCN only)
• Sprogcentre http://www.sprogcenteraalborg.dk/

7. Sport activities
• gyms (Focus fitness, Fitnessworld, DGI Huset, outside gyms and playgrounds)
• Climbing walls (free try out every first Sunday in a month)
• running groups (UCN)
• swimming pools ( Gigantium, Svømmeland, Haraldslund swimming centre)
• cycling

8. Cycling
• Danish cycling federation – trip around Aalborg on Sunday
• Sustainability festival (10. – 17. 9. 2016) – volunteers needed

9. Volunteering organisations
• 1000Fryd – community centre run by volunteers, live concerts, DJ shows, vegan cafe, soup
kitchen every Tuesday
• Student house
• European youth (youth organisation that promotes and protects values of EU, several
campaings every year, wine evenings, sustainability projects, creative writing workshops, debate
clubs etc.)
• Elsk Aalborg (danish classes, intercultural buffets, random volunteering campaings –
sustainability festival)
• Cykel20 – bikeshop
• Study life
• Startup Cafe (Monday – Thursday)

11. Practical links
• Aalborg libraries (spread all over the city, books both in danish and english, DVD´s, CD´s, book
club, presentations and workshops, need of CPR number, free)
• Life in Aalborg – blog, keeps you updated about what is going on, practical tips (SKAT, how to
learn danish, tips for the cheap cafe and restaurants…)
•Rejseplannen – transportation, bus routes, schedules, etc.
• Abildskou – coach bus
•Visit Aalborg – places to visit and things to do
•Gomore
• Article about volunteering organisations in Aalborg

12. Questions

13. The end