About Odense

With a history dating back more than 1,000 years of history, Odense is one of the oldest cities in Denmark. A legacy dating from the Vikings, all the way into today’s transformation to a modern Danish city with a hub for robot technology and innovation, connects Odense with the outside world and makes us proud to live in Odense

Tinderbox picture: Morten Rygaard
With 200,000 inhabitants, Odense is Denmark's third largest city. The open, modern city of Odense is home to more than 180 higher education programmes, a university hospital and several strong clusters in the fields of robotics, drones, welfare technology and IT, to name but a few. 
 
A large number of festivals, 261 parks and 540-km network of cycle paths are just some of the things that make Odense an adventurous experience and a great city in which to live, study, work and raise a family.