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These 11 Copenhagen-based student start-ups are crushing it

As student-founded companies, they wanted to make their mark on the world. Now, after riding the yo-yo up and down the corona year 2020, they are surviving. And even thriving.

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Campus

750 signed petition against sexism — organisers surprised that many did not dare sign it

Organisers of petition against sexism at Danish universities say that many people did not wish to sign for fear of losing their jobs.

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Politics

Eva Smith used to think everything was her business

For the last 20 years Eva Smith – Denmark's first female professor of law – has seen things go downhill: The rule of law is under threat, law researchers are avoiding public debate, and students have lost their spirit. But Smith still hollers when she sees injustice.

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Politics

Can an obesity acceptance activist do research on fatphobia? Yes, says dean

A PhD project on the social stigma of obesity at the Faculty of Theology is the object of scorn by politicians. But the faculty’s dean Carsten Selch Jensen says the criticism is unreasonable.

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Campus

Offbeat locations at the University of Copenhagen

An underground list of surprising localities at a centuries-old university.

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Politics

He runs a global project against corona, but still answers emails from random people

Jens Lundgren heads a project in the DKK 65 billion coronavirus initiative initiated by the White House. As an HIV researcher, he has previous frontline experience against an unknown virus, but he has never tried working so quickly – or getting so many e-mails and threats.

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Opinion

Skyrocketing rent

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Science

Researchers not happy with tough new Danish-language policy draft

Non-Danish professors on permanent contracts are to teach in Danish after only 2-5 years, according to a new draft language policy at the University of Copenhagen. But this new, stricter, language policy formulation is misguided, international researchers say. And it will backfire.

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Politics

Researchers want University of Copenhagen to commit to anti-racism struggle

More than a hundred researchers sign open letter stating that black staff and students are presumed to be the object of discrimination at the University of Copenhagen. They want the university to investigate the problem.

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Opinion

Abolishing researchers' personal websites contravenes UCPH strategy

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