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It is called the YDUN. A one-off programme that in 2014 awarded DKK 110 million in grants to women researchers. But is it worthwhile? And is it fair?
Get up close with your ear
University of Copenhagen students are lighting 148 candles on Thursday for the victims of the massacre at Garissa University. They will also be doing a charity collection for the deceased, the survivors and their families
Response to Hans Bonde and Jens Ravnkilde: You need to fact-check and address the historical disadvantage experienced by women
It is about gender quotas and earmarked funding for women in academia. The Danish government’s YDUN programme was a one-off initiative that provided DKK 110m in research funding to female researchers for 2014. Here two professors puts it into a broader perspective
Targeting funding at women researchers is illegal and not meritocratic argues UCPH Professor in response to two Cosmology Professors claiming a "gender inequality ocean"
Are your studies cross-disciplinary enough? Students fed up with the lack of mixing between faculties and departments have organised their own conference to bring the disciplines together
The door to nowhere
Students back from Easter holidays.
It took months of studying trajectories on Google Earth, zooming in on craters and updating spreadsheets. But their research proved the Russians did it