Apply for researcher accommodation

LU Accommodation published available accommodation throughout the year. Read more to learn when and how to apply.

Who can apply?

PhD-students, guest researchers and newly employed postdoctoral researchers are welcome to apply for housing through LU Accommodation. Guest researchers need their host department to submit the request for booking, while PhD and Postdoctoral researchers can validate their own application for housing.

More information on who is eligible for researcher accommodation

When can you apply?

Available accommodation is published regularly throughout the year. Researchers need to first join our housing queue, and then apply for any available housing that interests them. In order to ensure equal opportunities for all researchers, applicants are not allowed to join the queue more than seven (7) months before their scheduled arrival.

Available housing is published approximately three (3) months before the move-in date. Accommodation is then offered to those applicants who have applied for the available accommodation, in order of longest queue time to shortest.

How to apply

The application is completed through three steps: sending a booking request, applying for available housing, and responding to housing offers.

1. Send a booking request

The process for sending a booking request differs between different researcher types, please read on below to learn more.

Booking requests for guest researchers are made by the host department. Requests directly from the guest researcher will not be accepted.

Who can stay with us?

Our rooms and apartments can be booked for international guest researchers visiting the University.

The host departments responsibilities

The host department acts as a guarantor, and is ultimately responsible for their guest. As the host department makes the booking request you agree to the following:

Terms and conditions for the host department

Postdoctoral researchers are eligible to send in a booking request form, as long as they have started their current research position less than 6 months before the date they request accommodation from.

Postdocs will be expected to provide a certificate or proof of their employment when they submit the booking request.

PhD researchers are considered both students and researchers. They are welcome to submit a booking request form by themselves. LU Accommodation will be able to independently verify their employment and study status.

In rare situations, more often during spring, LU Accommodation may be able to offer housing from the student accommodation stock, but this is only if there are no other types of students in line for housing. PhD researchers are expected to apply through the researcher housing booking request form.

2. Apply for available housing

Once LU Accommodation has received a booking request, you will receive an email with further information on how to proceed:

You will be sent a link to create a password for our housing portal. Once created we ask that you set up your profile and fill in details there.
In your profile you can designate which housing areas you are interested in and if you only want to view accommodation under a maximum rent cost. These are your housing preferences and are used as a filter to show accommodation that aligns with your preferred housing situation.
When your profile is complete you can start registering interest for the available accommodation. You can find these under the tab called “Available now”. A batch of available accommodation is published about two times each month. If there are no available accommodation open for application, this page will be empty.
Please pay attention to the access date before applying, as this will be the start date of the contract.
There are usually multiple applicants in queue for each apartment that is available in the batch. We advise that you apply to more than one apartment to increase your chances at securing accommodation.

3. Respond to housing offers

Once the application deadline has passed, we will begin sending out offers in order of when we received your booking request. The applicant that has been in our housing queue for the longest will receive the first housing offer. If this offer is declined, the offer will go to the next applicant in queue.
You either accept or decline the offer. If accepted and you are first in the queue, we will then send you a contract to sign. The contract will be sent via email through a service called Scrive.