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Kristiana Nikolova campaigned against plastic cups at the health faculty's coffee shop

»We should not be pointing to each other, saying that what they do is all wrong and calling out people as polluters. It is better to show that we can do these things and still have an easy life.«

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Politics

And they didn’t think the students could start a rebellion

In the course of two years, students moved from being virtually invisible in the climate debate to capturing the agenda and making demands on both university management and the decision makers in the Danish parliament.

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Academic life

Konservative Studerende: The culture of victimhood inhibits a healthy student environment

If elected to the board, Konservative Studerende [Conservative Students, ed.] want to minimize bureaucracy and put an end to the ‘culture of victimhood’.

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Academic life

Olivia Boesen: Students shouldn’t have to struggle with stress and loneliness

The Student Council’s top candidate, Olivia Boesen, wants to ensure that the board dedicates resources to help students deal with stress and loneliness.

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Academic life

He is the brains behind the students' blockade

History student Niklas Zenius Jespersen is the mastermind behind the students' confrontational and activistic line in occupying the management corridors at the Faculty of Humanities.

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Academic life

We talked to some students while they innovated

Are you sick of not being able to squeeze the residual yoghurt out of its carton? Are you overcome with shame when you unpack three layers of cellophane from your organic vegetables? Then you will be inspired by the 31 students who met up with the purpose of innovate the hell out of three major companies in order to combat food waste.

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Campus

How the University of Copenhagen became a centre of the offensive behaviour debate

Stories of sexism, drinking and crazy initiation rituals, a global #metoo movement and a set of guidelines on how to deal with offensive behaviour made the University of Copenhagen the centre of a stormy debate last year.

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Academic life

The University of Copenhagen is to get an LGBT+ policy, the question is which

Over 700 people represent the University of Copenhagen at this year's Pride Parade, but the university does not yet have an LGBT+ policy. Something should be done about it, said Prorector Bente Stallknecht at a debate meeting with students and staff.

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Academic life

At the intro party: We asked new students what it felt like. Any wardrobe panic?

»I have been in a little bit of a wardrobe panic, but it ended up being what was at the top of the cupboard, because I thought there was really no reason to think too much about it.«

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