Discovering the power of your voice in Copenhagen
Key Information
Information
Application Deadline: 27/05/25 at 9:00 am
Opportunity type: Employability trips, Extra-curricular opportunities
Ref: 10009565
Dates
Departure Date: 16/11/25
Return Date: 21/11/25
Costs
£550: the estimated cost for travel and accommodation (excluding DMU Global funding). Students will also be required to pay for: UK and in-country transfers, visits, food and drink, visa (if applicable)
Funding
DMU Global Bursary: £200
Booking
Accommodation: Shared rooms in a hostel booked by DMU
Travel: Flights booked by DMU (students travel as a group)
Contact
General Enquiries: Global Mobility Office - dmuglobal@dmu.ac.uk
Trip Lead: Andy Morris - andy.morris@dmu.ac.uk
How to pay
Payment details: Students will be required to pay £350 as a contribution towards the cost of travel and accommodation after being offered a place on the trip. The DMU Global bursary will be deducted directly from the overall cost of the booking.
Carbon Levy
Student contribution: To offset the carbon emissions from the flight for this trip there is a £3 Carbon Levy for this trip which has been added to the total cost. Information about how this Levy will be used can be found here.
Trip Profile
Independence
Independence
Trip price
Trip price
Trip duration
Trip duration
Eligibility
All current students (that will be enrolled and studying at DMU Leicester for the 2025-26 academic year) are eligible to take part in this opportunity, and those looking to develop their public speaking skills are particularly encouraged to apply. There are a maximum of 30 places available, with a minimum of 10 participants required for this opportunity to take place. Students are recommended to check the eligibility criteria before applying.
About
Trip description
Do you want to discover the power in your voice and the true value of your experience, and its value to others? Do you want to transform the way you see yourself and your hard-earned achievements in life? Do you want to embark on adventure overseas in Copenhagen and work with our careers staff and DMU alumni to develop your ability to speak accurately on yourself with pride and confidence? Do you want to graduate from DMU with real power in your voice?
Here is an opportunity to do just that. Your careers team, led by Andy Morris, manager of Inside Edge Mentoring at DMU, has designed a global trip that comprises a range of sessions and workshops, based at DMU’s partner, Niels Brock Business College, where you can develop your ability to speak in front of a group of people via a range of interactive challenges. This global trip will empower you to develop your ability to speak on your own experience, sharing your story, culminating in you developing the skills that you will need in order to stand out in interviews when you graduate.
Join us for a series of interactive sessions, experiential learning workshops, mentoring activity, and cultural visits to key locations in Copenhagen, and use this trip an opportunity to potentially change to your life.
Learning objectives
Participating in a DMU Global opportunity can help you develop a range of employability skills and competencies that enhance your studies. Through participation in this trip to Copenhagen we expect that:
Before the trip to Copenhagen, staff will deliver a number of preparation sessions to ensure a minimum standard of understanding of mentoring, build a group team culture with the students, explore wants and needs, hope and fears and brief them to ensure they are fully ready for the experience.
Post-trip, we will revisit the trip with students and assess the short-term impact and seek to learn from their experience before considering another trip based on our learning.
Why should you take part?
Do you have a genuine desire to work on your ability to speak in public and improve your confidence in such settings? Whether it is at the front of a lecture theatre, in group work with your peers, in networking or in job interviews, this short series of workshops overseas in Denmark’s capital city, will offer you the opportunity to challenge yourself and step outside of your comfort zones. We have run this series of workshops twice as a global trip, and both occasions to fantastic success. From our past two trips, the most used single word by students when asked, to describe their experience was ‘life changing’.
This trip will offer you a proven series of high-quality sessions, that are creative, experimental, tutor taught and peer reviewed. Three days of practical workshops that are flexible and allow you to focus on your strengths and / or weaknesses, mean that this trip can work for anyone who would like to challenge themselves. By setting this course in an overseas location, this opportunity will offer a full immersion into a new cultural setting, with new people, in a new institution, undertaking new tasks and all whilst exploring a new side of yourself. This trip seeks to take students on an adventure and a process of self-discovery and empower students for their return to the UK.
Cultural activities
The experience of being in a society that values equality and is famed for being egalitarian, may be in sharp contrast to attitudes and values that many of our students have experienced in life. This can help disrupt norms and assumptions that students make about the world. Exposure to new attitudes, new types of food, standards of living and working practices will help trigger conversations with students and develop them as global citizens.
This will develop the growth mindset with exposure to new settings, new ideas, new attitudes and new challenges will provide an experience that will challenge them in ways their course likely has not.
There will be free time each day and one full free day within the week for students to enjoy Copenhagen. Activities could include visits to Tivoli Gardens, the Torvehallerne Food Market, the botanical gardens, Orstedspaken park, river cruises, Christiania, bike hire and vintage shopping.