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The Spring Festival is back!

PARTY! - After being cut for budgetary reasons last year, the successful Spring Festival returns. Students and staff can look forward to dancing, feasting and partying at Nørre Campus on 5 May 2017

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Science

Plant detective chasing food criminals

Junior researcher Kristian Holst Laursen reveals the tampering with our foodstuffs by using analytical chemistry. Food fraud is big business, and the perpetrators often get away with it because there are no reliable analytical methods to provide evidence

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UCPH dominance at the DHL fun run – see the pictures

More than 2,000 UCPH-runners coloured the Fælledparken park green, blue and orange for this year's DHL relay race, where – again, again – they beat DTU and CBS in the university contest. Find yourself in the pictures

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Campus

Housing: The headache for international students and staff - And what to do

The Copenhagen Housing Foundation's Charlotte Simonsen talks about the challenges that international students and staff face when trying to find a place to live and how they can increase their chances.

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Education

UCPH students struggling with stress

Every second student at the University of Copenhagen has experienced sleeping problems and difficulty with their concentration, while every fourth student has been afflicted by depression within the last six months. This is according to a new survey by the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs

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Education

Rector’s last welcoming speech 2016

Rector welcomed new students at UCPH for the last time in his career. He then asked them to shake his and prorector Lykke Friis' hand – affirming the university’s basic values of insight, diversity and openness

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Campus

UCPH staff have low level of confidence in their managers

Confidence in management is down, and fewer staff members will recommend colleagues to apply for a job at UCPH. This is according to the annual workplace assessment

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Campus

She has the solution to the housing crisis

There are abandoned office buildings throughout Copenhagen. Yet 9,500 young people have no place to live. These two things just don’t square up, says a just graduated architect, who wants to rebuild no-longer-viable commercial property into modern homes for young people

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Campus

Meet three new faces at UCPH

The new semester has brought many new faces to the University of Copenhagen. We met a couple of them. Jonas who is still looking for a place to live, Trine who got into the law programme right after her upper secondary school, and Michela from Italy who is researching vaccines for farm animals

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Education

Government wants to cut DKK 1,200 from the Study Grant

Venstre wants to reallocate the SU system so that loans will make up half of the students study grant. The monthly payment to students will decrease by almost DKK 1,200 before taxes

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