Meetings and events

Moder og events paa Ungdomsøen

Hold your meeting, team day, conference or company party at Ungdomsøen.

We are located in the historic Middelgrundsfort, 30 minutes by boat from Nyhavn in Copenhagen. We offer a unique location with room for professional immersion and community.

Ungdomsøen has a range of beautiful and functional rooms for 10 to 250 guests – they can be combined for events with more guests. We have 15 dormitories, 6 shelters with sea views and a campsite with room for 1,000 overnight guests in tents.

Here you are surrounded by sea and sky and can explore the history and wild nature of the sea fort. We serve tomorrow's meal and full catering for your meetings and events.

Ungdomsøen is a vision-driven platform. We support young people in being engaged and curious people who take responsibility for the community and our society. Here, young people develop the projects and events they dream of. You support all of this when you visit Ungdomsøen.

Write to us at booking@ungdomsoen.dk to get a tailored offer.

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Hold your day meeting, overnight meeting or seminar in historic surroundings in the middle of the Øresund. Choose one of our meeting packages – we are happy to adapt the content to you.

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Day meeting

A meaningful meeting day – just off Copenhagen

Hold your meeting in truly unique surroundings at Ungdomsøen and get a day like no other. You get professional meeting facilities, historic surroundings and a special setting that creates focus, presence and community.

We offer:
 

  • Meeting room with AV equipment and all the practicalities
  • Coffee, tea and water all day
  • Morning snack
  • Lunch by the island chef
  • Afternoon cake and fresh fruit

DKK 712 per person excluding VAT (DKK 890 including VAT). The meeting package requires a minimum of 10 guests.

Transport to Ungdomsøen is purchased separately.

Day meeting with dinner

A meaningful meeting day in unique surroundings

At Ungdomsøen, you get much more than a meeting room. Here we combine historic surroundings with living visions and a unique community. Ungdomsøen is home to young people who develop ideas, create projects and engage in society – and as guests, you become part of it.

End the day with dinner under the open sky or in one of our beautiful, historic rooms overlooking the Øresund. This gives you space to take in the insights of the day – and take new perspectives home with you.

We offer:

  • Meeting room with AV equipment and the necessary facilities
  • Coffee, tea and water all day
  • Morning snack
  • Lunch by the island chef
  • Afternoon cake and fresh fruit
  • Dinner

DKK 1,072 per person excluding VAT (DKK 1,340 including VAT). The meeting package requires a minimum of 10 guests.

Transport to Ungdomsøen is purchased separately.

Overnight meeting

Peace, community and immersion in unique surroundings

Unplug from the usual and immerse yourselves professionally in inspiring surroundings – with time and space to strengthen your community too.

You stay overnight in Ungdomsøen's dormitories or shelters overlooking the Øresund – and wake up to the sea and the horizon. In the middle of the historic Middelgrundsfort, on an island where young people come together to develop the ideas and projects they dream of. Your stay contributes directly to that work.
 

We offer:

Facilities
 

  • Meeting room with AV equipment
  • Overnight stay in a dormitory or shelter
  • Duvet, pillow, bed linen and towel

Catering
 

Day 1:

  • Morning snack
  • Lunch by the island chef
  • Afternoon cake and fruit
  • Dinner
  • Coffee, tea and water all day


Day 2:

  • Breakfast with coffee and tea

 

DKK 1,976 per person excluding VAT (DKK 2,470 including VAT). The meeting package requires a minimum of 10 guests.

Transport to Ungdomsøen is purchased separately.

Seminar

Time for the big conversations and room for new ideas

Get away from the everyday meeting room and out into nature and a historic atmosphere. At Ungdomsøen, the sky is wide and there is room for deep conversations – whether you go for a walk and talk in wild nature or meet around the dinner table.

Here we combine professional meeting facilities with a genuine island atmosphere. As guests, you support our work to engage young people in society – and at the same time you get a truly special experience.

We offer:

Facilities

  • Meeting room with AV equipment
  • Overnight stay in a dormitory or shelter
  • Duvet, pillow, bed linen and towel


Catering

Day 1:

  • Morning snack
  • Lunch by the island chef
  • Afternoon cake and fruit
  • Dinner
  • Coffee, tea and water all day


Day 2:

  • Breakfast with coffee and tea
  • Morning snack
  • Lunch by the island chef
  • Afternoon cake and fruit
  • Dinner
  • Coffee, tea and water in the meeting room

Day 3:

  • Breakfast with coffee and tea

 

DKK 3,112 per person excluding VAT (DKK 3,890 including VAT). The meeting package requires a minimum of 10 guests.

Transport to Ungdomsøen is purchased separately.

Fester

Celebrate your company party, Christmas lunch or New Year reception on an old sea fort – or cook the food together at the island chef's cooking school.

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Company party

Hold your party in unique surroundings at Ungdomsøen and get a day out of the ordinary.

  • Welcome your guests with a glass of bubbles
  • The Ungdomsøen social dinner with delicious sharing dishes. Fresh seasonal vegetables are at the heart of our modern food experience, but there is also room for sustainable meat

DKK 796 per person excluding VAT (DKK 995 including VAT).

The price excludes transport to Ungdomsøen and applies to a minimum of 20 guests. Drinks are charged by consumption.

Cooking school

Immerse yourselves in the art of cooking together and get inspired as our island chef teaches you to make exciting dishes focused on fresh seasonal vegetables.

  • The cooking school takes place in Foodlab, and we start the event with a glass of cava
  • You get an insight into new techniques, ingredients and flavours as you prepare your meal together with our island chef
  • We challenge the traditional meal and rethink how we approach and prepare our food – for example by cooking over an open fire
  • Afterwards, we eat together so you can enjoy the dishes as a group
  • The cooking school lasts 4 to 5 hours including the meal

DKK 1,116 per person excluding VAT (DKK 1,395 including VAT).

The price excludes transport to Ungdomsøen and applies to a minimum of 20 guests. The maximum is 40 guests.

Christmas lunch

Give this year's Christmas lunch a historic setting that creates memories.

 

The experience begins as soon as you board the ferry in Nyhavn and sail through Copenhagen Harbour towards Ungdomsøen. When you step ashore at Ungdomsøen, an experience far from the ordinary awaits.

Here you step ashore on the old sea fort, with its historic surroundings, a beautiful view of Copenhagen and, not least, good seasonal food.

We light fires and candles on the quay as you gather for a Christmas dinner based on fresh, local and flavourful seasonal produce.

With us, community is at the centre. We challenge the classic Christmas dinner and invite you to a Christmas lunch where the food, the surroundings and the experience come together as one.

 

Ideal for

It is the obvious Christmas lunch for companies and organisations that want to give colleagues, teams or partners something more than a dinner.

At Ungdomsøen, you get an experience that begins on the ferry, continues around the table and ends the year in style.

 

Programme

We tailor the day to your wishes, and the event can be planned as either a lunch or a dinner.

  • Evening event with a 3-course Christmas dinner
  • Daytime event with an activity and a 3-course Christmas lunch

 

The package includes

  • Boat trip to and from Ungdomsøen
  • 3-course menu with the option to upgrade
  • Water and two glasses of wine or beer with dinner
  • Dance floor and DJ equipment

 

Book

Tell us what you would like and book your Christmas lunch with our team at booking@ungdomsoen.dk or call us on +45 20 40 59 99.

We tailor the event to your wishes and needs, and we look forward to welcoming you on the quay.

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New Year reception at Ungdomsøen

Give your colleagues an adventurous New Year reception in historic surroundings.

The experience begins when you board the ferry in Nyhavn and take a beautiful 30-minute trip through the canals of Copenhagen to Ungdomsøen. Here you step ashore on the old sea fort, with its magical winter setting, nature and our island chef's good food.

Book your New Year reception with our team at booking@ungdomsoen.dk or call us on +45 20 40 59 99.

 

Daytime event with an activity

  • 11.15: Ferry from Nyhavn
  • 11.45: Welcome on the Ungdomsøen quay
  • 12.00: Enjoy a fun activity. You can choose laser tag or a guided tour
  • 13.30: Two-course lunch with two glasses of wine
  • 16.45: Gather on the quay
  • 17.05: Ferry departs
  • 17.35: Arrival in Nyhavn

 

Evening event

  • 18.00: Ferry from Nyhavn
  • 18.30: Welcome on the Ungdomsøen quay
  • 18.45: Three-course dinner with welcome bubbles and two glasses of wine
  • 21.30: Gather on the quay
  • 21.50: Ferry departs
  • 22.00: Arrival in Nyhavn

Teambuilding

Want to strengthen collaboration and motivation in your team? We work with Mindset Factory and former navy frogman Rune Viborg, who are experts in developing teams and leaders. They challenge habits, break patterns and create change you can feel – far beyond Ungdomsøen.

Read more about team building at Ungdomsøen

Faciliteter

We offer historic surroundings with room for professional immersion and community. At Ungdomsøen, you are surrounded by sea, sky and wild nature. Here you can see a selection of our facilities.

See all facilities.

Download the booking catalogue.

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The Hangar

Our largest room at Ungdomsøen is located in the middle of the island. The hangar consists of two large compartments connected by three large openings in the dividing wall. The two rooms can be combined for larger events with many participants or divided by a curtain if you want to use the space for different purposes like dinner, meeting, groupwork or an assembly. One side of the hangar is all windows, which give the room a nice light, while screens and projectors are hung on the opposite wall for presentations. The hangar measures 230 m2 and can accommodate up to 200 participants in rows of chairs.

Hangar C has two projectors, two screens and a full speaker sound system.

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The Rocket Workshop

The unique old rocket workshop, where memories of the island's past as part of Denmark's defense are still visible. The room has direct access to the outdoor terrain at the top of the island on one side and access to the fort's winding underground passages on the other. The room measures 110 m2 and can accommodate up to 90 participants in rows of chairs.

The rocket workshop has two projectors, two screens, a whiteboard and a full speaker sound system.

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The dining halls

Ungdomsøen have four identical meeting rooms - that were once the young soldiers dining halls. The dining halls are placed side by side on the ground floor of the fortress, and they all have a large window with a view of the Sound and the offshore wind farm. Every dining room is about 5 x 10m and fits up to 30 people at tables or in rows of chairs. All dining rooms can be equipped with transportable screens, sound systems and flip-overs.

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Sejlads til søfortet

There are several ways to sail to Ungdomsøen. You can take the ferry from Nyhavn, which takes 30 minutes, or you can book a fast 10-minute trip by RIB boat.

Read more about sailing here.

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Morgendagens måltid

With us, you get more than just good taste.

Our meals are based on fresh seasonal produce and sustainable production. We believe that food can inspire, challenge and push the boundaries of how we think and act.

That is why we offer, for example

  • Healthy snacks such as fresh fruit, vegetable sticks with hummus and puffed rice noodles.
  • Generously topped, vegetarian and reinvented open sandwiches.
  • Social dinners with delicious sharing dishes, with seasonal produce at the centre.
  • Pastries and desserts.
  • Cooking school – where you cook together and experiment with new flavours and combinations.

Read more about our meals here.

You are not allowed to bring your own catering, including drinks. Food is ordered through us, and drinks can be bought in our kiosk.

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Aktiviteter

There is a lot to experience at Ungdomsøen. You can add an activity as a break in your meeting day. We offer experiences that give new energy and insight into life and history on the old sea fort. All our activities are developed and run by our young hosts and volunteers.


See all activities here.

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Guided tour

LIFE ON THE ISLAND, HISTORY, EXPLORE THE ISLAND

On a guided tour of Ungdomsøen, you meet a young person who knows Ungdomsøen really well. They will show you Ungdomsøen from their perspective, tell tall tales and facts from Ungdomsøen's past as a military fort and share their own memories and dreams with you. That is why every tour is completely unique, and even if you have been on one tour, you can easily take another next time you visit Ungdomsøen.

Number of people: Minimum 10.

Price per person: DKK 105 for young people / DKK 150 for people over 30.

The tour lasts about 1.5 hours.

Book your guided tour at least 2 weeks in advance via booking@ungdomsoen.dk

Military history Stratego

HISTORY, COMPETITION, PLAY

Dive into the history of Ungdomsøen as a military fort through a battle to conquer the enemy! You are divided into two teams and must use tactics, teamwork and speed to take the enemy's base and capture their flag. The game takes you not only around Ungdomsøen's terrain but also through Ungdomsøen's past as Middelgrundsfort, as you play your way through history with characters from the army, navy and air force. Stratego can be played both indoors and outdoors, but wear practical clothes, as you will be moving around.

Our military history Stratego was developed together with young people from the Ungdomsøen community.

Number of people: minimum 20 and maximum 60.

Price: DKK 150 per person.

Military history Stratego usually lasts 1 to 1.5 hours.

Book the activity at least 2 weeks before your visit via booking@ungdomsoen.dk

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Laser tag

COMPETITION, ACTIVE, TEAMWORK
 

Are you ready for battle?! At Ungdomsøen, you can go to war in an old sea fort. In two teams, you compete with laser guns in the fort's underground passages. Find out who has the best aim and which team has the best tactics in a wild game of Capture the Flag. With adrenaline pumping, you explore the best hiding places in the old fort while training team spirit and collaboration. The activity takes place indoors.

Number of people: minimum 10 and maximum 35.

Price per person: DKK 105 for young people / DKK 150 for people over 30.

The activity usually lasts 1 to 1.5 hours.

Book laser tag at least 2 weeks in advance via booking@ungdomsoen.dk

Vores gæster støtter op om unges drømme

When you choose Ungdomsøen as the setting for your meetings and events, you are also investing in future generations. You help make it possible for young people to develop the projects and events they dream of at Ungdomsøen.

Our vision is to be a platform where young people from all over the country can experiment with their ideas and become part of a community. Every year, a group of young people moves to Ungdomsøen and helps develop and run the old sea fort. They create projects and events for more young people, and they are your hosts when you visit Ungdomsøen.

Everyone is welcome at Ungdomsøen.

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How do we get to Ungdomsøen?

You can take one of SparShipping's ferries from Nyhavn or sail with a fast boat. Write to booking@ungdomsoen.dk to hear more about sailing times and prices and to book your trip.

Can we stay overnight at Ungdomsøen?

Yes, there are several ways to stay overnight at Ungdomsøen. On the first floor of the fort, you can settle down in the newly renovated dormitories overlooking the quay. If you love big nature experiences, you can also book one of our shelters and wake up to the sunrise right over the blue waves of the Øresund.

Do you have AV equipment and Wi-Fi?

Our rooms are fully equipped with AV equipment, and free Wi-Fi is available at Ungdomsøen. It can also be a good idea to turn on Wi-Fi calling in your phone's settings while you are at Ungdomsøen.

Is Ungdomsøen accessible for people with physical disabilities?

You can see large parts of Ungdomsøen even if you have limited mobility. Ungdomsøen also has accessible accommodation.

How do we find our way around?

If you want to explore Ungdomsøen on your own, you can get a map in the kiosk. You can also book a guided tour as part of your visit. A young person who knows Ungdomsøen well will show you around the fort's 2.5 kilometres of winding passages and open green landscape. You will hear about the historical details and the tall tales and get an overview of Ungdomsøen. If you would like to get to know Ungdomsøen a little before you arrive, you can find maps on the website under "Map of Ungdomsøen".

Why are prices higher for people over 30?

Ungdomsøen is a platform created and developed by, with and for young people. To make Ungdomsøen as accessible to young people as possible, prices at Ungdomsøen differ. This means that young people get a 30% discount on almost everything you can buy or book at Ungdomsøen. As a company, you help make it possible for many more young people to visit and use Ungdomsøen. We call it the Ungdomsøen Robin Hood model.

Didn't get an answer to your question?

Then write to booking@ungdomsoen.dk or call us on +45 20 40 59 99 (weekdays 10.00–15.00).

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