The vast majority of children under the age of six are looked after by a childminder or a nursery from Monday to Friday. It is the task of municipal authorities to provide day care facilities, and the options vary from authority to authority.
Read more about kindergartens on the GreaterAarhus website
Contact your municipality to hear more about integrated institutions
Read more about after-school clubs on the GreaterAarhus website
It is your job to contact the municipal authorities to book a place for your child. In order to sign up for childcare you need a CPR number for your child and an address in Denmark. If there are not any places immediately available, the child's name will be placed on a waiting list. The earlier you put down the child's name, the greater the chance of finding a place when you need it.
Below is contact information for the childcare offices in the municipalities in which Aarhus University has departments or research centres.
Childcare in Aarhus - Information about the city's different childcare options.
You can apply by downloading and completing this application form and sending it to the address shown at the form. If you do not have a CPR number yet you can e-mail the application form to: relocation@au.dk
In the form you can list your preferred childcare institutions. But you can not be guaranteed a place there, if there is none available. Therefore you can at the same time mark with a cross that you want to be guaranteed a place, which means that the municipality will offer a place in an available institution not more than half an hour of transportation-time away from your home.
You can also contact the childcare administration
Childcare administration, Grøndalsvej 2, PO Box 4069, DK-8260 Viby J.
Email: pladsanvisningen@mbu.aarhus.dk
Personal enquiries to the childcare administration are subject to prior appointment with the childcare administrator in charge of your area. To contact your local childcare administrator, call Citizens’ Services on tel. +45 89 40 22 22 (press 4 for personal assitance) during the opening hours of the childcare administration.
Childcare in Copenhagen - Information about the city's different childcare options and see how much they cost.
Municipality Child Care Office (Pladsanvisningen)
Frederiksborggade 15, 3. sal
Postboks 2220
1018 København K
Tel. +45 70 25 06 60
Email: pladsanvisning@buf.kk.dk
Office hours: Monday-Wednesday: 9 am - 1 pm, Thursday: 1 pm - 6 pm, Friday: 9 am - 1 pm.
Municipality Child Care Office (Pladsanvisningen)
Frederiksberg Town Hall (Rådhus)
Smallegade 1
2000 Frederiksberg
Tel. +45 38 21 01 00
Email: pladsanvisningen@frederiksberg.dk
Office hours: Monday – Friday: 9 am – 1 pm.
Daycare in Herning - Information about the various forms of daycare offered by Herning Municipality.
Municipality Child Care Office (Pladsanvisningen)
Town Hall (Rådhuset)
Torvet 1, Entrance B
7400 Herning
Tel. +45 96 28 28 28
Email: opb@herning.dk
Office hours: Monday: 8 am - 4 pm, Tuesday - Wednesday: 8 am - 3 pm, Thursday: 8 am - 5 pm, Friday: 8 am - 12 pm.
Municipality Child Care Office (Pladsanvisningen)
Roskilde Town Hall (Rådhuset)
Rådhusbuen 1
4000 Roskilde
Tel: +45 46 31 30 00
Email: pladsanvisning@roskilde.dk
Silkeborg Municipality (Silkeborg Kommune)
Office for daycare, children and family (Dagtilbud- børne- og Familieafdelingen)
Søvej 1
8600 Silkeborg
Tel. +45 89 70 20 07
Email: bornogfamilie@silkeborg.dk
Office hours: Monday - Tuesday: 8 am – 3 pm, Wednesday: closed, Thursday: 8 am – 5 pm, Friday: 8 am - 2 pm.
Citizenservice Syddjurs (Borgerservice)
Tingvej 17
8543 Hornslet
Tel: +45 87 53 50 00
Email syddjurs@syddjurs.dk
Office hours: Monday - Tuesday: 8.30 am - 3 pm, Wednesday: closed, Thursday: 8.30 am - 5 pm, Friday: 8.30 am - 12 pm.
Mailing address:
Lundbergsvej 2
8400 Ebeltoft
Web, Syddjurs Municipality: www.syddjurs.dk
Day care: here you can read more about different day care options offered by Viborg Municipality.
Viborg Municipality Child Care Office (Pladsanvisningen)
Prinsens Alle 5
8800 Viborg
Tel: +45 87 87 87 87
Email: boern-unge@viborg.dk
Office for Children and adolescents (børn- og ungeafdelingen)
Torvegade 24
4200 Slagelse
Tlf. +45 58 57 36 00
Email:dagtilbud@slagelse.dk
Municipality of Faaborg-Midtfyn
Daycare
Tel: +45 72 53 30 00
Email: dagtilbud@fmk.dk
Child Care Office (Pladsanvisningen)
Tel: 72 53 32 33
Office hours: Monday/Wednesday/Friday: 8 am - 12 pm, Tuesday: 12.30 pm - 3.30 pm, Thursday: 12 pm - 5 pm.
Municipality of Odense
Contact Odense Citizens service (Borgerservice)
Daycare
Ørbækvej 100, blok 1
5220 Odense SØ
Tel: +45 65 51 56 78
Office hours: Monday - Wednesday: 9 am - 3.30 pm, Thursday: 9 am - 5.30 pm, Friday: 9 am - 12 pm.