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The University Post’s guide to culture in Copenhagen on a student budget

Are Copenhagen’s prices making you break into a sweat as a student, to the point where you’ve given up on the city’s cultural scene? If so, keep reading. The University Post’s guide will show you the best cultural deals in Copenhagen at student-friendly prices.

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Academic life

Guide: Fab Study Spots in Copenhagen

Are you new to the city and not quite sure where to go to study? Or are you simply tired of your usual study spot and in need of some fresh inspiration? Uniavisen has been around the city testing study spots for you, so you can find a great place to settle down with your books every time.

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Science

Inequality under hypercapitalism calls for humanist reform, says cultural psychology scholar

The experience of injustice can trigger anger and protest when people feel that their status, identity and recognition are under threat, Séamus Anthony Power argues in a new book.

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Science

UCPH’s new head of security must reconcile intelligence-service logic with open research

After 13 years with the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, Esbern Stig Møller will now protect UCPH’s research from espionage by foreign states. But he acknowledges that security may conflict with the University’s openness.

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Academic life

See the photos from immatriculation 2026

It is now official: This year’s new students met each other, their tutors, and their well-dressed rector for the first time on Friday, August 21.

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Academic life

The Rector's welcome speech to the new students

With the symbolic handshake new students are welcomed to UCPH by The Rector as citizens of the academic republic.

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Opinion

It’s not extreme to wish for the IDF to cease to exist

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Education

Legal philosopher: The university should not only be a safe space. It should also be a brave space

There are only few limits on what materials instructors may present, as long as they serve a legitimate academic purpose, says legal philosopher Jakob v. H. Holtermann. Students must learn to endure the discomfort that teaching may create, he argues.

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Politics

»Some positive steps in the right direction«: New government receives mixed reactions

Universities Denmark welcomes the new government’s focus on research, while student representatives criticise the lack of attention to higher education and student grants.

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Science

In a Copenhagen suburb UCPH experiment with Frankenstein trees and seeds for the future

For 70 years, the University of Copenhagen’s living gene bank Pometet has preserved old fruit varieties, experimented with new cultivation methods, and fought to hold on to space in a surrounding world that has repeatedly tried to build over it.

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