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Students at work for the other climate forum

University of Copenhagen internationals poised to help out at an alternative climate summit which runs in parallel to the official COP15

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High-profile university panel to kick off COP15

Parallel to COP15 this December, the Faculty of Life Sciences is hosting a high-profile seminar with leading scientists

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University to fire 130 staff

130 staff from the University of Copenhagen faculties and central administration are to lose their jobs. This is according to an official statement from the Rector's office, citing budget cutbacks

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Climate is future security policy, says Friis

If the fire and safety authorities had a say in it, they would have closed down the party. Connie Hedegaard handed over the post as Minister of Climate and Energy to the University of Copenhagen's Prorector in a jam-packed Climate Ministry canteen

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Prorector Lykke Friis now a government minister

University of Copenhagen's Lykke Friis gets top government post

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Sociology department blockaded

Sociology students have blockaded their department since the early hours of Thursday morning. Protesting cutback plans, they say they will not stop until their demands are met

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Staff angered by new tax on phones

Thousands of University of Copenhagen employees will be subject to a new multimedia tax from 1 January 2010. Both the university administration and the staff representatives hate it. And the new tax is counterproductive, say employees

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White House praise for University of Copenhagen

SCIENCE FOR POLITICIANS – Barack Obama’s environment advisor praises recent climate report from the University of Copenhagen in exclusive interview

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Student dorms in Copenhagen pick the coolest students

Until now, student residences in Copenhagen have sifted out the 'coolest' students. This has to stop, says politician Manu Sareen

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1989 may have been the best year in history

The peaceful overthrow of communism was not inevitable, and Europe just happened to be incredibly lucky. So said British historian Timothy Garton Ash and Danish minister Per Stig Møller

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