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Involvement is not co-determination!

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Campus

The University of Copenhagen’s KU Festival — more than just a staff perk

We need something that unites us in times of division. Here it is: The annual festival for all students and staff is on Friday 31 May.

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Education

Professor with a pump gun

Professor of freshwater biology at UCPH Kirsten Seestern Christoffersen shoulders a rifle when she takes students out on field trips in Greenland and on Svalbard in northern Norway. But the weapon is no protection against climate change.

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Opinion

Editorial: The future of the University Post is blowing in the wind

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Working environment

University of Copenhagen to sack first batch of 190 staff in November

Administration reform will mean a goodbye to 380 technical and administrative staff. The first half will be laid off in the fall of 2024. The remaining 190 staff, in terms of full-time staff equivalents, will be laid off towards the end of 2027.

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Education

The exchange programme where a survival course is mandatory

Students at the university on Svalbard get a week-long safety course which includes shooting with rifles: They share territory with polar bears. We met up with two UCPH students close to the North Pole who say their experiences are 'supreme' and 'absurdly beautiful'.

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Science

Researcher: Disparity between research on women's and men's diseases

Medical doctor and postdoc Amani Meaidi spends all her waking hours working against one particular imbalance: The amount of research into men's and women's diseases. She is so obsessed with women-specific genes that she sometimes gets a stress rash on her hands.

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International

Two years of war: Daily life at the Polytechnic Institute in Kyiv

In Kyiv, there are fewer and fewer student faces at online lectures. The question is: How do you help young Ukrainians who have sought refuge abroad, without harming Ukraine's future?

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International

Two years of war: With each passing day, research in Ukraine gets weaker

The researchers who have not fled the war are publishing less — and worse — research. The University Post visited a faculty in Kyiv that has a lecture hall in a bomb shelter, a gallery on a wall showing the students who are at war, and a dean who tries to keep track of all the colleagues who have left.

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People

New dean at Faculty of Social Sciences: »We need more focus on well-being«

Psychology professor Vibeke Koushede takes over as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences from Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, who said his departure was due to disagreements with the rector.

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