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University of Copenhagen needs 75,000 m² cut to offset financing shortfall

The University has yet to find funding to balance the books on campus infrastructure from 2028 onwards. Its savings will only stretch as far as 2026.

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Campus

Prorector defends decision to close retreat rooms: They failed their purpose

Retreat rooms at the University of Copenhagen are history, and they will not return in their previous form, says Prorector for Education Kristian C. Lauta in this interview with the University Post.

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Politics

Student Council wins, but suffers setback in university election 2025

Emma Due of the Student Council gets her seat on the UCPH board as student rep. The new Free Retreat Rooms list wins nearly 10 per cent of the vote

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Working environment

Innovation unit after the reform: New colleagues, better ideas

The administration reform has made a less fragmented University of Copenhagen, according to two employees. But the implementation of it is still ongoing.

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Science

Can openness save us? University of Copenhagen revives a message from the nuclear age

75 years after Niels Bohr’s open letter to the United Nations, researchers warn that science — once again — is caught up in a collaboration and security dilemma. New geopolitics initiative wants to help the university find its way in an era where research has to be both open and protected.

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Working environment

Campus officers after the reform: Same job just got harder

Six months on from the administration reform and campus officers reflect on more tasks, more management, and what the point of it all was.

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Working environment

Education unit after the reform: »Uncertainty is still the order of the day«

With the new administration at UCPH, union representative Anders Hartvig Hartzen has seen colleagues go on sick leave due to stress.

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Working environment

Cutbacks begin: Layoffs hit the Faculty of Science

The faculty lets go of more than 100 staff members in total. Union representative wonders why management didn’t act sooner.

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Working environment

130 researcher testimonies expose a culture of fear and silence at Danish universities

Personal stories of managerial pressure, a culture of silence, and psychological violence in academic workplaces are at the core of a new campaign by the Movement for a Free Academia. Minister for Higher Education and Science Christina Egelund says the stories are serious and promises greater focus on academic freedom.

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Politics

Danish universities to benefit from billion-kroner funding reform

Cross-party agreement channels DKK 18 billion into research over a four year time period. Danish universities get more non-earmarked funding, and politicians vow that they will safeguard academic freedom.

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