Akademikernes A-kasse

Who can become a member?
Akademikernes A-kasse (AKA) admits salaried as well as self-employed workers in certain professions. AKA is an unemployment insurance fund for 21 professional associations whose members are academics. The two largest ones are IDA (The Danish Society of Engineers) and DJØF (The Danish Association of Lawyers and Economists). Full-time, part-time and student membership are accepted.

Where are their offices?
AKA is headquartered in Copenhagen, with offices in Odense, Aarhus, Aalborg, Esbjerg, Vejle and Herning.

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The choice of unemployment fund is restricted. Under Danish law, unemployment insurance funds can opt to be either "occupationally delimited unemployment insurance funds" or "cross-occupational unemployment insurance funds". The former admit only persons with a certain profession or occupation, whereas the latter are open to all. Unemployment funds are free to choose whether to admit self-employed persons.