Here you will find information about why and how Aarhus University and Copenhagen Capacity process your personal data.
1. Who is the data controller?
Aarhus University (AU) and Copenhagen Capacity are joint data controllers for the processing of your personal data.
Our information:
Aarhus University has a Data Protection Officer. You can contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@au.dk.
If you have any questions about the research project, including participation and processing of personal data, please contact Christian Bøtcher Jacobsen, Professor and Principal Investigator, and Florian Keppeler, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, more@ps.au.dk.
2. What is personal data?
Personal data is any information that directly or indirectly can be attributed to you. This can, for example be your name, your age, but it can also be a lot of information that, when linked to other information, tells something about you, for example your address combined with information from a public register.
3. Why do we process personal data about you?
As a university in Denmark, AU is obligated to conduct research, and Copenhagen Capacity has signed a collaboration agreement to support this research. To conduct research, we often need to process information about people. In order to conduct research, we often need to process personal data. In the research project “Bridging Borders, Preserving Health: How to sustainably recruit, select, and retain skilled international nursing staff (MORE)”, we process personal data to examine how healthcare organizations can sustainably recruit, select and retain skilled nursing staff from the European labour market.
4. What information do we process about you?
We will process the following categories of personal data about you: general personal data, special categories of personal data, and confidential data.
For example, information such as This includes information such as name, age, gender, nationality, contact details (general personal data), trade union membership (special categories of personal data), work, education and employment status and social security number (“CPR-numre”, confidential data).
We collect the information from your LinkedIn profile, your click behaviour on Copenhagen Capacity's online offers, your CV and your information in Copenhagen Capacity's database and Danish employers with whom you will be in an application or employment relationship. In addition, we use data from Statistics Denmark's register.
5. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?
The processing of personal data requires that there is a legal basis for the processing in the data protection rules or other legislation. We process your personal data on the basis of section 10(1) of the Danish Data Protection Act and Article 6(1)(e) of the General Data Protection Regulation. The processing of CPR numbers is based on section 11(1) of the Danish Data Protection Act.
6. How long do we process your personal data?
At present, it is not possible to say for how long Aarhus University and Copenhagen Capacity will process your personal data, as this depends on the purpose of the research project and the rules on storage according to responsible research practice. When your personal data is no longer required for processing, it will be anonymised.
When assessing how long it is necessary to process your personal data, we take into account, among other things: achieving the research purpose, disseminating the research results and being able to account for the accuracy of the research findings for a period after the research has been completed (e.g. according to the rules on responsible research practice or according to law).
7. Who do we share your information with?
We must provide you with information about who we share your personal data with. In this research project, we will share your personal data with Danish employers in the health and care sector who want to attract, select and integrate international workers. It may be necessary to share your personal data at a later time. In this case, we will only share them with recipients who have a legitimate research purpose.
8. What are your rights?
According to the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of rights when we process your personal data. Your rights are limited when the processing is carried out for research purposes. Therefore, you can read below what rights you have in connection with the processing of your personal data in research.
Rights in research
You can assert your rights by contacting Christian Bøtcher Jacobsen, Professor and Principal Investigator, and Florian Keppeler, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, more@ps.au.dk.
9. How can you complain?
The processing of your personal data and your trust are important to us. Therefore, we hope that you will contact us if you have any questions or are unhappy with the way we process your information.
If you nevertheless wish to complain about our processing of your personal data, you can contact the supervisory authority in Denmark:
Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet)
Carl Jacobsens Vej 35
DK-2500 Valby
