We cannot plan our work, says an associate professor and staff representative for 250 employees at the Niels Bohr Institute. He predicts that the delays on the University of Copenhagen's coming laboratories will cost research funding grants. Union calls for a clarification of the construction process.

The delayed Niels Bohr Building at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has been constructed with major plumbing and ventilation system errors that will cost hundreds of millions of kroner. Employees at the construction site say they complained about the contractor at least one year before the government's agency responded to the problems.

Some local councils in Denmark have already banned employees from smoking during working hours. The university could do the same. But a union rep says the proposal is a non-starter

The Academic Council of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has deprived neuroscientist Milena Penkowa of her doctorate in medicine. Penkowa writes on Facebook that she will fight to keep her degree and that she will take UCPH to court.

A dozen Microsoft employees are currently working with scientists at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). The goal is to build the first functioning quantum computer. At the University of Copenhagen alone, Microsoft has invested a three-digit million (DKK) amount.