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Foundation cash is tying up the university's funding for free research

Ten major foundations have granted 11.8 out of a total of DKK 15 billion to ongoing research projects at the University of Copenhagen. But the money is not just a blessing.

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Education

Taking law off campus

New master’s course at the Faculty of Law for entrepreneur lawyers in close cooperation with Copenhagen startups.

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Politics

Why economists want to change the Danish SU student grants: 3 arguments

The chairmanship of the Danish Economic Council, the so-called economic wisemen, are not against the Danish SU student grant system. But Denmark gives too much of it away, they write in a new report. A more fair system would turn part of the SU grant into a loan, they say.

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Top 10: They donate the most money to the University of Copenhagen

Universities need to get a growing share of their funding for research themselves. And if you look at the list of the ten largest contributors, the researchers at the University of Copenhagen seem to be good at it.

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Culture

Spring Festival 2018 in pictures

For the second year in a row, the Spring Festival was held at full swing in the Universitetsparken – and it even had the summer sun towering in the sky. See the pictures from the party.

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Science

The rice plant with gills

Rice plants 'breathe' through a thin gas coating, that works like the gills of fish. UCPH researcher has helped to locate the gene in rice that makes it water resistant for days. Now he wants to solve a wet climate challenge.

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Politics

Derfor vil vismændene lave SU'en om til lån: 3 argumenter

De økonomiske vismænd er ikke imod SU, men de skriver i ny rapport, at Danmark giver for meget af den væk. Det retfærdige ville være at lave en del af SU'en om til lån, lyder det.

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To fight the loneliness, Peter went on ten different intro camps for new students

The University of Copenhagen has (at least) one student who is studying now on his tenth year and who, according to himself, is getting a huge benefit out of it every time he goes on the fresher camp for new students. It works as therapy for new students, and for their tutors.

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Campus

Oops! 600 staff had unlawful access to 13,600 CPR personal ID numbers

Sensitive information, including salary data, has been freely available on the University of Copenhagen's servers. New procedures to safeguard the employees’ data introduced

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Campus

Bonus? That is for UCPH managers to give each other

Employees who have the job title of ‘manager’ get significantly higher one-off bonuses than the university's other employees, according to figures from the website Loenoverblik.dk.

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