The Danish Society of Engineers is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 association for engineers and other specialist groups working within engineering and technology. It has the abbreviation

Abbreviation

An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase...

 IDA (Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark)

IDA has headquarter in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 and is a union in two parts one a political part and the other a large Professional Network consist of 56 different professional groups located over the entire country of Denmark.

IDA is the association part. The unemployment part is managed by Engineers Unemployment Association (Ingeniørernes Arbejdsløshedskasse (IAK)).

IDA is also the major share holder (5 million DKK) in the weekly magazine Ingeniøren.

Members of IDA comes from the different engineer education schools in Denmark;

• Technical University of Denmark
  Technical University of Denmark
  The Technical University of Denmark , often simply referred to as DTU, is a university just north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's first polytechnic, and is today ranked among Europe's leading engineering institutions, and the...
  
   (DTU)
• University of Southern Denmark
  University of Southern Denmark
  The University of Southern Denmark, with campuses located in the southwestern part of Denmark - i.e. Funen, Southern Jutland and Sealand - is a research and educational institution with deep regional roots and an international outlook. Reaching even further south, the university offers a number of...
  
   (SDU)
• Aalborg University (AAU)
• Ingeniørhøjskolen Københavns Teknikum
• Odense Teknikum
• Århus Teknikum
• Horsens Teknikum
• Haslev Teknikum
• Sønderborg Teknikum

or another of the Danish Teknika.

External links

• Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark - official home page.
• Ingeniørernes Arbejdsløshedskasse - official home page.
• Ingeniøren - official home page.