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The player-coach

The daily vortex of e-mails, posts and likes has turned us into “performance subjects”, according to professor of sports and coaching psychology Reinhard Stelter, that constantly optimise our opportunities. But coaching has an important role to play in the struggle to find our self and our values.

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Education

When the Humanities Council disrupted the UCPH commemoration

About 30 students showed up at the UCPH annual commemoration to show their dissatisfaction with university cuts. The chairman of the Humanities Council got into a brief discussion with research and higher education minister Tommy Ahlers.

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Politics

UCPH elections 2018: Here are the contested elections

The lists of candidates for this year's UCPH election are ready. There will be a contest for the students' seats on the Board – and also for staff and student seats in several academic councils and boards of studies. Here is an overview where you can see whether you need to vote when the election starts on 26th November.

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Politics

Departments forced to stop researchers applying for external funding

A number of UCPH departments are under so much financial pressure that they have stopped their researchers from applying for funding unless the grant giver covers overheads. Staff representative says that researchers are frustrated

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Education

Layoffs coming up at the forestry college

Looming losses on the coming years’ budgets has the Forest and Landscape College ‘Skovskolen’ firing 10 out of 90 employees. Management has already been cut back.

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Campus

The theses are back on the shelves

From week 46 you again have the option of borrowing theses at the Copenhagen university library. The lending of master's theses had been shut down since July with reference to GDPR data protection regulation.

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Campus

Million Swedish kroner to Maiken Nedergaard for discovering the brain's cleaning system

UCPH professor Maiken Nedergaard is this year's recipient of the prestigious Stora Nordiska award. She receives the award for her discovery of, and research into, the brain's ‘cleaning system’, the glymphatic system.

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Opinion

The new UCPH job as diversity consultant is questionable

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Science

UCPH to hire a diversity and equal treatment consultant

A new consultant at the University of Copenhagen is to boost equality among genders and among Danish/international researchers.

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Politics

800 European universities ask the EU Commissioner to help them fight the big journals

Universities Denmark is leading the fight against a publishing industry which earns billions from researchers getting access to their own scientific articles. In a complaint, 800 European universities are now asking the EU competition commissioner to put her foot down.

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