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You can now sign up as a candidate for the university elections

Students and staff can stand for election until 30th October. You can already now see which forums you can vote in.

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Other

New campaign to put an end to male-dominated research funds

The boards in Denmark’s research foundations are predominantly men, and male researchers are more likely to get funding than their female colleagues. With the Promote Me campaign, associate professor Vanessa Jane Hall wants to correct this gender imbalance.

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Education

If necessary, EU Commissioner Vestager got up at 4 in the morning... and studied

Saturday 6th October 2018, Margrethe Vestager became an honorary alumna at the University of Copenhagen. Here she talks about her life as a student of economics. About studying when others went out on the town. About changing her study programme from the inside. And about what she took along with her when she graduated.

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Education

Social sciences faculty to educate future masters’ students in big data science

A new master’s program will train economists, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists to gather and analyse big data.

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Politics

UCPH hopes to attract foreign staff after govt. proposal

The Danish government wants to make it easier to bring in international manpower to Denmark. UCPH welcomes the proposal. New rules are to cut red tape and make it easier to attract top researchers to universities.

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Education

Student entrepreneur is breeding organic flowers

Karoline Schnorr has her own business, cultivating organic flowers, alongside her studies in natural resources at UCPH.

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Campus

"Trying to fall asleep, I lay thinking about my studies for several hours.”

It started with insomnia and exam stress. Then came heart palpitations, chronic fatigue and irritation. After a tough semester Emil is now on sick leave with a depression. And he is, by far, not the only one.

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Campus

7 things you have to see at UCPH on Culture Night

Dead animals, explosions, lectures and hidden corners of UCPH that are normally locked up. Let us be your guide to the Culture Night on 12th October.

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Science

Drinking stories from the Botanical Gardens

Craft breweries have had a breakthrough in terms of draught beer’s traditional hops and malted barley - or so we thought. Until we visited the Nordic Beer Garden in the botanical gardens. Here there is an enormous diversity of plants that have been used for brewing beer in the Nordic countries through the ages. Especially the Vikings were innovative.

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Campus

The good life out on South Campus

In January 2017, theologians, lawyers and information studies moved to South Campus. Before the move, people voiced their protests and concerns. We went out there to give it a once over.

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