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What’s the use of research if we don’t buy into it?

Two UCPH professors tried to find solutions to address fact denial - from climate change to HPV vaccines - at a popular debate at The People’s Political Festival 2018. We caught up with one of the speakers, Klemens Kappel, after the debate and asked him to elaborate.

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Culture

Studenterhuset inspires a new culture house - in Boston

CultureHouse will open in Boston, USA next month. However the concept of the new US culture house actually comes from Copenhagen’s very own student watering hole, Studenterhuset.

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Politics

Bente Stallknecht appointed new prorector

Professor Bente Stallknecht is taking over the post of Prorector of Education from Lykke Friis.

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Education

No coincidence. Causality professor named SCIENCE Teacher of the Year

Professor Jonas Peters has been recognised by SCIENCE students as an inspiring teacher of causality and mathematical models.

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Politics

Educator, digital entrepreneur named new external board members

Birgitte Vedersø, chair of the association of Danish gymnasiums, and Carsten Krogh Gomard, co-founder of Netcompany, have been selected as the Board’s next external members

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Campus

Two University of Copenhagen professors receive major award

Anne Tybjærg-Hansen and Kristian Helin have received awards from the Kirsten and Freddy Johansen Foundation for their ground-breaking cardiovascular and epigenetics research

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Science

UCPH to consider ethics guidelines on who researchers can co-operate with

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen may now receive funding from anywhere as long as the funds do not come with restrictions to their freedom of research.

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Science

From the US army to Christmas trees: 14 thought-provoking contributors to the University of Copenhagen budget

Researchers at University of Copenhagen (UCPH) have received a approximately DKK 15 billion for 5,092 different ongoing research projects. The newsroom has taken a look at 14 projects that made us think: What? Do they also give money to UCPH?

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Politics

Temporary staff: Assess the working conditions of precariat researchers

Chairman of the association for temporarily-hired researchers at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is delighted with the fact that the Research Policy Council is to focus on PhDs’ difficult career paths. The next step could be a study whether the working conditions for younger researchers forces them to work for free and to show servility to permanent staff.

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Education

After graduating: "Suddenly I am where my parents have always been”

When the master’s thesis is defended and done. And the 20 years in the classroom are suddenly over. Ahead of you is working life. We talked to five students who are all at this turning point.

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