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This article was first published 27 Februar 2019. It has been updated 19 June 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

North Campus<\/h1>\n

1. The cross-disciplinary one: Caf\u00e9en?<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/picture>It is called the \u2018Caf\u00e9en?\u2019, but it is actually more like a bar. And the beers usually get far more attention than the coffee. The coffee is in the corner of the bar and is free if you are a member. You can be a member for DKK 25 a year. The coffee either comes in porcelain mugs (and bring your own with you, they say) from an assorted collection, or in paper cups, and tastes as if it was brewed a few hours ago. There is no fresh milk, but there is coffee creamer and nice science students from various disciplines.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> Free (requires membership)
\nOpening hours:<\/strong> Monday-Wednesday 12-20, Thursday 12-22, Friday 12-03<\/p>\n

2 The one with a disco: Studenterklubben<\/h3>\n

The medicine students\u2019 underground student club scores many points just by being the only coffee spot with a disco ball hanging from the ceiling. Blue Irma-branded coffee is served, tea and various carbonated drinks \u2013 and when there is milk, you can get a bit in your coffee too. You can borrow games or read the day’s newspaper among the multitudes of medical students, who apparently don\u2019t walk around in lab coats all the time. Disappointing. And then there is table football. A big plus.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> Free
\nOpening hours:<\/strong> Monday-Friday 11-17.<\/p>\n

3. The inventive one: Biocentret<\/h3>\n

Every now and again at North Campus, you find the ‘fancy’ coffee machines which spit out something different from the normal, yesterday’s, brew. In the canteens at the H.C. \u00d8rsted Insitute and in the August Krogh building, an espresso costs DKK 18, but at the Biocenter you can make do with a round DKK 10. If you mix it up with water, you get an americano. Now that\u2019s clever. And don’t worry, if you would rather have the kind of coffee you know, you can get that too.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> DKK 5 for a small cup, DKK 10 for a large one.
\nOpening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Thursday 7:45\u201314:30, Friday 7:45\u201314<\/p>\n

TIP: When we asked the students at the Faculty of Science where they preferred to take their daily caffeine fix, we got the following reply: ‘The canteen at the H.C. \u00d8rsted Institute has probably the worst coffee at the University of Copenhagen’. So you should avoid that. Speaking of which, the researchers at Maersk Tower have coffee on tap. Like in water taps. For real.<\/p>\n

South Campus<\/h1>\n

<\/p>\n

1. The much-loved: Helga<\/h3>\n

At South Campus, Helga is loved by all and sundry. Here you can drink fair-trade organic Peter Larsen coffee in soft leather sofas, while you practise memorising royal lineages. It is nice here, and the coffee is cheap. Rumours have it that students from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies also traverse the roof terrace to enjoy Helga\u2019s black gold. The musicians from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies and a few stray lawyers have also been spotted here.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> DKK 4
\nOpening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Thursday 9-17, Friday 9\u201323:45<\/p>\n

2. The creative one: Roland Bar<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/picture>In Roland Bar, which is mainly populated by students from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, even the coffee tastes … creative. The coffee is, however, neither complex nor ornate, but Roland Bar is still a place you would like to hang out in. Everybody who comes through the door, is greeted with a welcome, and between the seats in the various levels and the board games, it feels a bit like being at home with your wacky aunt.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> DKK 5 (+ DKK 5 which you get back when you return your coffee cup)
\nOpening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Thursday 9-17, Friday 9\u201323:45<\/p>\n

3. For the weekend warriors: Hava Java<\/h3>\n

You always have your beans at hand at Hava Java in KUA1, KUA2 and KUA3. Among the humanists in KUA2 the coffee bar is called the M\u00f8destedet or meeting place, while the lawyers at KUA3 have not yet named theirs. In KUA1 you’ll find the coffee shop as a part of the large canteen in building 23. It is not the cheapest coffee on campus, but it keeps the Copenhagen standard and the large cups are actually large. A huge plus. The M\u00f8destedet is also open on both Saturday and Sunday. A giant plus.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> DKK 10, DKK 12 in a to go cup and DKK 8 if you bring your own cup
\nOpening hours:<\/strong> KUA1 and KUA3: Monday-Friday 7.30-16.30
\nKUA2: Monday-Friday 7.30-21, Saturday-Sunday 9-16.30<\/p>\n

Frederiksberg Campus<\/h1>\n

1. The one with Liselotte: Gimle<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/picture>Frederiksberg Campus has two canteens – Gumle and Gimle. Reliable sources say that you need to go to Gimle, when you need your coffee fix. Not because the coffee here is better than most other places, but because you will find Liselotte here, who is the world’s most committed and nicest canteen lady. During the day there is not much of a queue for the coffee, but during lunch break, there are white lab coats all the way down the stairs. So you have to either resign yourself to standing in a queue like on Black Friday or skip the coffee.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> DKK 5 for a small cup, DKK 10 for a large one.
\nOpening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Thursday 11\u201314, Friday 11\u201313:30
\n<\/p>\n

2. The one with a view: V\u00e6ksthuset<\/h3>\n

In the beautiful gardens of the former Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, you will find one of the best cups of coffee of the University of Copenhagen with the most beautiful view. Unfortunately, it is probably also the most expensive. The Caf\u00e9 V\u00e6ksthuset greenhouse is cold (and closed) in winter, but in summer, the glass building is generally packed \u2013 and steaming hot. In view of the fact that it is a greenhouse, the temperature fluctuations make sense. Even though the coffee is way above average, it is difficult to determine whether it is worth the price.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> DKK 25 (including student discount)
\nOpening hours:<\/strong> (summer) Wednesday-Sunday 9-17<\/p>\n

3. The one for the DIY people: The library<\/h3>\n

When you got desperate for coffee at the university library in Frederiksbreg, KUB Frb<\/secret>, in the old days, you would have been able to head for a monstrosity of a coffee machine. Unfortunately they have all been laid to rest. But nothing suggests that they will be replaced by another instant coffee with milk powder solution. But fear not! It is still possible to get your daily fix \u2013 if you just stay ahead a bit. The library has a nespresso machine for free use (we think), so if you bring your own cartridges, you can still get you a cup of black gold. The good news is that the capsules from the discount supermarket Netto work fine.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> The price of your capsules
\nOpening hours:<\/strong> Monday\u2013Thursday 8\u201321, Friday 8\u201318, Saturday-Sunday: 10\u201317<\/p>\n

TIP: Frederiksberg and North Campus are battling for the worst coffee of UCPH. \u00bbOn a good day it is just bad,\u00ab said one student of natural resource management. For the late afternoons you can bring your own instant-mix and use the tea kitchenette at the main entrance on Thorvaldsensvej \u2013 or go to A-vej, which is the student bar on Dyrl\u00e6gevej 7.
\n<\/p>\n

City Campus<\/h1>\n

1. The international Studenterhuset caf\u00e9<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/picture>The Studenterhuset caf\u00e9 is paradise for the international students, and the coffee can be enjoyed by everyone. Here you can get a barista coffee for a student discount, and all students at the University of Copenhagen get a discount on everything. This is a concept that you can understand. The filtered coffee is fine. Not exciting, but it is neither bitter nor watery. The cappuccino comes with a foamy kind of art, but varies in strength. With the price, quality, the number of power outlets and the option for you to bring your own food, this is clearly a recommended spot.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> DKK 12 and DKK 6 for a refill including student discount
\nOpening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Wednesday 9\u201323.45, Thursday 9-01, Friday 9\u201303, Saturday 10-02, Sunday 10-22<\/p>\n

2. The one with the queue: Kommunen<\/h3>\n

The Kommunen is the beating heart of the Center for Health and Society (CSS) campus, both when it comes to Friday bars and thirst for coffee. The coffee is from Peter Larsen – and both organic, fair trade, and cheap. Unfortunately this is nothing that you should write a letter home about. The coffee in the 12 different thermos jugs waiting for the coffee-hungry hordes, switches between being unusually watery and a kind of tar-like black. But there is both a wide selection of milks, the option of \u00bd litre cups and chocolate biscuits for a krone \u2013 and this really helps things.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> DKK 4 for a small cup, DKK 8 for a large one.
\nOpening hours:<\/strong> Monday-Friday 8-16.
\n<\/p>\n

3. The undefinable: Jacques Delors<\/h3>\n

In a basement at the Center for Health and Society there is a monstrosity of a coffee machine. The coffee machine belongs to the political science students’ Friday bar and hangout \u2013 Jacques Delors, and it can really spit out a lot of interesting drinks. It is open, when everything else is closed, but it should only be used in desperate cases. The brown substance in the cup is at best suspect, and you cannot taste the difference between latte, cappuccino and wiener melange.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> DKK 3
\nOpening hours:<\/strong> Monday-Friday 8-20.<\/p>\n

TIP: There is an unknown, blessed, soul who has donated an electric kettle to the reading room in the corridor in building 4, so you can slurp instant coffee at any time of day. Alternatively, you can even brew mocha in the kitchen that is located by the sociologists\u2019 and anthropologists’ common room, the Katedralen.<\/p>\n

Translated by Mike Young<\/em>
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Here is the verdict."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Standfirst","subject":"Coffee","text":"This is a story about what will follow","use_post_excerpt":true},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":false,"contributors":[{"use_registered_user":true,"user":{"ID":14,"user_firstname":"Liv","user_lastname":"Rossander","nickname":"Liv","user_nicename":"liv","display_name":"Liv Rossander","user_email":"liv.rossander@adm.ku.dk","user_url":"","user_registered":"2017-01-27 10:43:57","user_description":"","user_avatar":"<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1a921e44962d37d3315f06a2f379ef57bcdde34675badad84706182818a1bc5a?s=96&d=identicon&r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1a921e44962d37d3315f06a2f379ef57bcdde34675badad84706182818a1bc5a?s=192&d=identicon&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' loading='lazy' decoding='async'\/>"},"contributor_name":"","contributor_title":"","contributor_image":false}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p><em>This article was first published 27 Februar 2019. It has been updated 19 June 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>North Campus<\/h1>\n<h3>1. The cross-disciplinary one: Caf\u00e9en?<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-82163\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cafeen-700x467.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cafeen-700x467.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cafeen-480x320.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cafeen-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cafeen-290x193.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cafeen.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>It is called the \u2018Caf\u00e9en?\u2019, but it is actually more like a bar. And the beers usually get far more attention than the coffee. The coffee is in the corner of the bar and is free if you are a member. You can be a member for DKK 25 a year. The coffee either comes in porcelain mugs (and bring your own with you, they say) from an assorted collection, or in paper cups, and tastes as if it was brewed a few hours ago. There is no fresh milk, but there is coffee creamer and nice science students from various disciplines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> Free (requires membership)<br \/>\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday-Wednesday 12-20, Thursday 12-22, Friday 12-03<\/p>\n<h3>2 The one with a disco: Studenterklubben<\/h3>\n<p>The medicine students\u2019 underground student club scores many points just by being the only coffee spot with a disco ball hanging from the ceiling. Blue Irma-branded coffee is served, tea and various carbonated drinks \u2013 and when there is milk, you can get a bit in your coffee too. You can borrow games or read the day’s newspaper among the multitudes of medical students, who apparently don\u2019t walk around in lab coats all the time. Disappointing. And then there is table football. A big plus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> Free<br \/>\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday-Friday 11-17.<\/p>\n<h3>3. The inventive one: Biocentret<\/h3>\n<p>Every now and again at North Campus, you find the ‘fancy’ coffee machines which spit out something different from the normal, yesterday’s, brew. In the canteens at the H.C. \u00d8rsted Insitute and in the August Krogh building, an espresso costs DKK 18, but at the Biocenter you can make do with a round DKK 10. If you mix it up with water, you get an americano. Now that\u2019s clever. And don’t worry, if you would rather have the kind of coffee you know, you can get that too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 5 for a small cup, DKK 10 for a large one.<br \/>\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Thursday 7:45\u201314:30, Friday 7:45\u201314<\/p>\n<p>TIP: When we asked the students at the Faculty of Science where they preferred to take their daily caffeine fix, we got the following reply: ‘The canteen at the H.C. \u00d8rsted Institute has probably the worst coffee at the University of Copenhagen’. So you should avoid that. Speaking of which, the researchers at Maersk Tower have coffee on tap. Like in water taps. For real.<\/p>\n<h1>South Campus<\/h1>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":82173,"id":82173,"title":"helga","filename":"helga.jpg","filesize":62051,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/helga.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/test-af-kaffe-paa-campus-den-gode-den-onde-og-den-der-smager-af-tjaere\/helga-2\/","alt":"Billede af cafe helga. Bardisk med brune stole. 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The much-loved: Helga<\/h3>\n<p>At South Campus, Helga is loved by all and sundry. Here you can drink fair-trade organic Peter Larsen coffee in soft leather sofas, while you practise memorising royal lineages. It is nice here, and the coffee is cheap. Rumours have it that students from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies also traverse the roof terrace to enjoy Helga\u2019s black gold. The musicians from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies and a few stray lawyers have also been spotted here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 4<br \/>\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Thursday 9-17, Friday 9\u201323:45<\/p>\n<h3>2. The creative one: Roland Bar<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-82174\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/roland-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/roland-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/roland-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/roland-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/roland-290x163.jpg 290w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/roland.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>In Roland Bar, which is mainly populated by students from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, even the coffee tastes … creative. The coffee is, however, neither complex nor ornate, but Roland Bar is still a place you would like to hang out in. Everybody who comes through the door, is greeted with a welcome, and between the seats in the various levels and the board games, it feels a bit like being at home with your wacky aunt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 5 (+ DKK 5 which you get back when you return your coffee cup)<br \/>\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Thursday 9-17, Friday 9\u201323:45<\/p>\n<h3>3. For the weekend warriors: Hava Java<\/h3>\n<p>You always have your beans at hand at Hava Java in KUA1, KUA2 and KUA3. Among the humanists in KUA2 the coffee bar is called the M\u00f8destedet or meeting place, while the lawyers at KUA3 have not yet named theirs. In KUA1 you’ll find the coffee shop as a part of the large canteen in building 23. It is not the cheapest coffee on campus, but it keeps the Copenhagen standard and the large cups are actually large. A huge plus. The M\u00f8destedet is also open on both Saturday and Sunday. A giant plus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 10, DKK 12 in a to go cup and DKK 8 if you bring your own cup<br \/>\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> KUA1 and KUA3: Monday-Friday 7.30-16.30<br \/>\nKUA2: Monday-Friday 7.30-21, Saturday-Sunday 9-16.30<\/p>\n<h1>Frederiksberg Campus<\/h1>\n<h3>1. The one with Liselotte: Gimle<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"541\" class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-82171\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/gimle-700x541.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/gimle-700x541.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/gimle-480x371.jpg 480w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/gimle-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/gimle-290x224.jpg 290w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/gimle.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>Frederiksberg Campus has two canteens – Gumle and Gimle. Reliable sources say that you need to go to Gimle, when you need your coffee fix. Not because the coffee here is better than most other places, but because you will find Liselotte here, who is the world’s most committed and nicest canteen lady. During the day there is not much of a queue for the coffee, but during lunch break, there are white lab coats all the way down the stairs. So you have to either resign yourself to standing in a queue like on Black Friday or skip the coffee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 5 for a small cup, DKK 10 for a large one.<br \/>\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Thursday 11\u201314, Friday 11\u201313:30<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":82175,"id":82175,"title":"v\u00e6ksthuset","filename":"vaeksthuset.jpg","filesize":102254,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/vaeksthuset.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/test-af-kaffe-paa-campus-den-gode-den-onde-og-den-der-smager-af-tjaere\/vaeksthuset\/","alt":"Billede af V\u00e6kshuset p\u00e5 frederiksberg. Stole og borde i et stort drivhus. Hyggelig stemning men knap s\u00e5 billig kaffe.","author":"5","description":"","caption":"","name":"vaeksthuset","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":82153,"date":"2019-02-22 10:56:01","modified":"2020-07-23 10:17:46","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":608,"height":810,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/vaeksthuset-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/vaeksthuset-480x639.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":639,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/vaeksthuset.jpg","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":810,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/vaeksthuset.jpg","large-width":608,"large-height":810,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/vaeksthuset.jpg","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":810,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/vaeksthuset.jpg","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":810,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/vaeksthuset-290x386.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":386,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/vaeksthuset-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/vaeksthuset.jpg","narrow-width":608,"narrow-height":810,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/vaeksthuset.jpg","extended-width":608,"extended-height":810}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"Coffee in a greenhouse","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"Enjoy your coffee in green surroundings at Caf\u00e9 V\u00e6ksthuset, Frederiksberg Campus."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h3>2. The one with a view: V\u00e6ksthuset<\/h3>\n<p>In the beautiful gardens of the former Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, you will find one of the best cups of coffee of the University of Copenhagen with the most beautiful view. Unfortunately, it is probably also the most expensive. The Caf\u00e9 V\u00e6ksthuset greenhouse is cold (and closed) in winter, but in summer, the glass building is generally packed \u2013 and steaming hot. In view of the fact that it is a greenhouse, the temperature fluctuations make sense. Even though the coffee is way above average, it is difficult to determine whether it is worth the price.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 25 (including student discount)<br \/>\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> (summer) Wednesday-Sunday 9-17<\/p>\n<h3>3. The one for the DIY people: The library<\/h3>\n<p>When you got desperate for coffee at <secret url=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/biblioteket-290x180.jpg\" text=\"\">the university library in Frederiksbreg, KUB Frb<\/secret>, in the old days, you would have been able to head for a monstrosity of a coffee machine. Unfortunately they have all been laid to rest. But nothing suggests that they will be replaced by another instant coffee with milk powder solution. But fear not! It is still possible to get your daily fix \u2013 if you just stay ahead a bit. The library has a nespresso machine for free use (we think), so if you bring your own cartridges, you can still get you a cup of black gold. The good news is that the capsules from the discount supermarket Netto work fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> The price of your capsules<br \/>\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday\u2013Thursday 8\u201321, Friday 8\u201318, Saturday-Sunday: 10\u201317<\/p>\n<p>TIP: Frederiksberg and North Campus are battling for the worst coffee of UCPH. \u00bbOn a good day it is just bad,\u00ab said one student of natural resource management. For the late afternoons you can bring your own instant-mix and use the tea kitchenette at the main entrance on Thorvaldsensvej \u2013 or go to A-vej, which is the student bar on Dyrl\u00e6gevej 7.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h1>City Campus<\/h1>\n<h3>1. The international Studenterhuset caf\u00e9<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"463\" class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-82168\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/studenterhuset-700x463.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/studenterhuset-700x463.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/studenterhuset-480x318.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/studenterhuset-768x508.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/studenterhuset-290x192.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/studenterhuset.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>The Studenterhuset caf\u00e9 is paradise for the international students, and the coffee can be enjoyed by everyone. Here you can get a barista coffee for a student discount, and all students at the University of Copenhagen get a discount on everything. This is a concept that you can understand. The filtered coffee is fine. Not exciting, but it is neither bitter nor watery. The cappuccino comes with a foamy kind of art, but varies in strength. With the price, quality, the number of power outlets and the option for you to bring your own food, this is clearly a recommended spot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 12 and DKK 6 for a refill including student discount<br \/>\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Wednesday 9\u201323.45, Thursday 9-01, Friday 9\u201303, Saturday 10-02, Sunday 10-22<\/p>\n<h3>2. The one with the queue: Kommunen<\/h3>\n<p>The Kommunen is the beating heart of the Center for Health and Society (CSS) campus, both when it comes to Friday bars and thirst for coffee. The coffee is from Peter Larsen – and both organic, fair trade, and cheap. Unfortunately this is nothing that you should write a letter home about. The coffee in the 12 different thermos jugs waiting for the coffee-hungry hordes, switches between being unusually watery and a kind of tar-like black. But there is both a wide selection of milks, the option of \u00bd litre cups and chocolate biscuits for a krone \u2013 and this really helps things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 4 for a small cup, DKK 8 for a large one.<br \/>\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday-Friday 8-16.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":82176,"id":82176,"title":"jacques","filename":"jacques.jpg","filesize":88259,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/jacques.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/test-af-kaffe-paa-campus-den-gode-den-onde-og-den-der-smager-af-tjaere\/jacques\/","alt":"Billede af Jaqcues D, lavloftet rum med borde og stole og skrift p\u00e5 v\u00e6ggen: suspekt men billig kaffe i statskundskabernes studierum","author":"5","description":"","caption":"","name":"jacques","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":82153,"date":"2019-02-22 10:56:59","modified":"2020-07-23 10:22:25","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":720,"height":960,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/jacques-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/jacques-480x640.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":640,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/jacques.jpg","medium_large-width":720,"medium_large-height":960,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/jacques.jpg","large-width":720,"large-height":960,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/jacques.jpg","1536x1536-width":720,"1536x1536-height":960,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/jacques.jpg","2048x2048-width":720,"2048x2048-height":960,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/jacques-290x387.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":387,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/jacques-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/jacques-700x933.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":933,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/jacques.jpg","extended-width":720,"extended-height":960}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"Beer and coffee","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"The Kommunen is the beating heart of the Center for Health and Society."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h3>3. The undefinable: Jacques Delors<\/h3>\n<p>In a basement at the Center for Health and Society there is a monstrosity of a coffee machine. The coffee machine belongs to the political science students’ Friday bar and hangout \u2013 Jacques Delors, and it can really spit out a lot of interesting drinks. It is open, when everything else is closed, but it should only be used in desperate cases. The brown substance in the cup is at best suspect, and you cannot taste the difference between latte, cappuccino and wiener melange.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 3<br \/>\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday-Friday 8-20.<\/p>\n<p>TIP: There is an unknown, blessed, soul who has donated an electric kettle to the reading room in the corridor in building 4, so you can slurp instant coffee at any time of day. Alternatively, you can even brew mocha in the kitchen that is located by the sociologists\u2019 and anthropologists’ common room, the Katedralen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by Mike Young<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"en","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Get a weekly newsletter in your inbox","button_text":"Sign up here","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"Read more","hand_picked_posts":true,"references":[{"reference":{"ID":54782,"post_author":"14","post_date":"2017-09-12 10:02:04","post_date_gmt":"2017-09-12 08:02:04","post_content":"<h2>1. Save up<\/h2>\r\nIt costs money to begin at university. Between all the trips to IKEA, the books, and the travel cards for commuting, starting to study can end up being expensive, so it's smart to save up a bit before you take off. There are also expenses for social activities such as introduction week, which you can easily forget on the go \u2013 and all the beers you are going to drink at the Friday bar don\u2019t pay for themselves.\r\n<h2>2. Learn the lingo<\/h2>\r\nOn campus you will hear many new and strange expressions \u2013 they are a part of the particular language code that is used on campus. The UCPH language is a distinctive \u00a0[secrettext face=\"sociolect\" text=\"variant of a language used by members of a specific social group - a kind of group language\"]\u00a0filled with absurd abbreviations and very long words that it takes time to learn. Do yourself a favour and read up on some of the university's lingo before starting studies so you can easier follow the conversation and laugh at the right time. We have done some of the work for you on Danish university-related terminology. Find our (Danish) guide to uni-lingo<a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/uni-lingo-din-ordbog-til-koebenhavns-universitet\/\"> here<\/a>.\r\n<h2>3. Make friends<\/h2>\r\nEven though there are many things you have to keep track of, make a point of showing up at social events and Friday bars on your new study programme \u2013 even if you don\u2019t feel in a festive mood. You can just drink a tonic without the gin, the important thing is that you spend time with your new classmates and make an effort to get to know them. This community may carry you through the really tough, troubled times of your programme of study \u2013 like having to study for a new exam in methodology.\r\n<h2>4. Have hobbies<\/h2>\r\nExtra-curricular activities can give you back the energy for your daily life. It can be anything from embroidery, to a trip to the practice room, the gym or football pitch, and this will give you significantly less of a bad conscience than a Netflix marathon, and it will make your studies easier. Not everything in your life needs to be about your new study programme, and it's both healthy and nice to take a break and clear your head.\r\n<h2>5. Relax<\/h2>\r\nRemember to \u2018check out\u2019 every now and again, and take a break. Thousands of things happen at the start of your studies, and it's not easy to be both social with your new reading group, and keep up old friendships, while at the same time being a good student and reading up on your entire syllabus. Give yourself breaks and breathers along the way - it's okay. Nobody can do everything all the time \u2013 even if it looks that way on Instagram. It is, seriously, not good to end up as a stress statistic.\r\n<h2>6. Be social<\/h2>\r\nIt might be a good idea to sign up for the Friday bar committee, the book club or any other campus associations. You learn to know the university in a completely different way when you commit to more than just reading the curriculum. It's also a great opportunity to get to know people from other student cohorts and study programmes \u2013 something that might otherwise be difficult.\r\n<h2>7. Study the right way<\/h2>\r\nNow there is no right or wrong way to study. But you could easily be led to imagine that other students sit in the reading room until late into the night while they are at the same time engaged in all the different clubs and\u00a0 associations of their programme, and that this must be the right way to be a university student. It is not. There are as many ways of being a student as there are students. We all tackle uni-life differently and have different priorities and preferences \u2013 and this is perfectly normal!\r\n<h2>8. Drop the grades race<\/h2>\r\nGrades in high school and at university are not the same. Your grades at university do not have the same implications, and you are also assessed on a completely different skills set. So you don\u2019t have to worry about falling down the scale \u2013 most of us do. As long as you try to understand the material, things usually go well. In 2 years\u2019 time (or in 2 months\u2019 time) no one, including yourself, will remember, or care, about whether you got a \u201812\u2019 or a \u20184\u2019 in the first year's exam in science theory.\r\n<h2>9. Use the re-examinations<\/h2>\r\nAt university you usually have three attempts to pass an exam, and there is absolutely no shame in doing a re-examination. You can use the opportunity to redo an exam if you don\u2019t have the opportunity to prepare yourself properly or if you have many exams on top of each other. Re-examination can be a planning tool that reduces the pressure during the exam period. It can give you more peace of mind and can be an opportunity for you to prepare better.\r\n<h2>10. Make demands<\/h2>\r\nYou study at university for your own sake, and so it is legitimate for you to make demands on your fellow students and instructors. You have the right to question \u2013 or complain about \u2013 the decisions of the university, faculty or the decisions of your instructor. Every fifth exam complaint ends up being ruled in favour of the student, so even though it may seem time consuming or bureaucratic, it is not useless. Many of the guidance staff are students themselves and they are there for your sake, so do not hesitate to go to them if you need some advice.\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\n","post_title":"10 things I should have known before I started university","post_excerpt":"Go to re-examination, forget about your grades, and make demands. At the university, there are many new things to deal with, and one is easily overwhelmed. Here, an experienced student tells what she wishes she had known, when she was on the threshold of student life.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"10-things-i-should-have-known-before-i-started-university","to_ping":"","pinged":"\nhttps:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/uni-lingo-din-ordbog-til-koebenhavns-universitet\/","post_modified":"2019-07-17 11:04:19","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-17 09:04:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/10-ting-jeg-gerne-ville-have-vidst-inden-jeg-begyndte-paa-universitetet\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"reference":{"ID":76692,"post_author":"14","post_date":"2018-11-05 12:04:30","post_date_gmt":"2018-11-05 11:04:30","post_content":"<strong>This article is a list of language schools. If you need tips on <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/tips-on-how-to-finally-learn-danish\/\">how to learn Danish, read the guide here. <\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\nNewcomers to Denmark used to be able to learn Danish for free. In Copenhagen, around 12.000 foreign citizens benefits from government-funded lessons each year. Unfortunately,\u00a0a new tax-agreement means that\u00a0international students, workers and self-supporting foreigners will now have to pay for their own Danish lessons. Luckily there is still plenty of places to learn the tongue-twisting language,\u00a0for those who are interested in having a couple of Danish phrases in their pocket for daily conversations in class, or maybe for picking up that cute Dane at the Friday Bar. Here is a student\u2019s guide to Danish lessons in Copenhagen:\r\n\r\n \n<!-- end of module 1 -->\nTwo Language Education Centres, '<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clavis.org\/\">CLAVIS sprog og kompetence<\/a>' and '<a href=\"https:\/\/ucplus.dk\/dansk\/\">UCplus<\/a>' have won the tender bid for government-subsidized Danish classes. As a student at KU, you are eligible for subsidized Danish classes (up to 3.5 years of education within a 5-year period) and you will receive a referral letter from the City of Copenhagen after your CPR registration. Upon receipt of the letter, you have 30 days to contact one of the centers to sign up for classes.\r\n\r\n<strong>How it works?<\/strong> The 3.5 years of Danish education is comprised of 6 modules, roughly corresponding to levels A1-C2 in the CEFR framework. As a student at KU, you will be taking the 'Danish language course 3' (Danish 3), which is designed for students with more than 12 years of schooling. Note that the expected duration for completing each module is different. It will take 2 months to complete Module 1 (level A1), while it will take 5 months to complete Module 2 (level C1), for example.\r\n\r\n<strong>Costs<\/strong>: A user payment of DKK 2,000 for each module started, and a deposit (refundable upon passing of the module test) of DKK 1,250 for each module started.\r\n\r\n \n<!-- end of module 2 -->\nThe following 5 private language schools (sprogcenter) provide Danish 3 classes for international students with or without a CPR number in Copenhagen. They are ranked from [secrettext face=\"cheapest to most expensive\" text=\"You know, like you also filter your online shopping.\"] on an hourly basis, and you can also check out their class sizes and when their next course starts.\r\n<h1>IA Sprog<\/h1>\r\n<strong>How it works?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iasprog.dk\/en\/\">IA Sprog<\/a> offers 'Flexible' Danish courses (meeting once a week) and 'Intensive' courses (meeting twice a week), as well as courses tailored to Scandinavians, German and Polish speakers. The courses are organised based on the official module system. However, not all modules or intensity levels are offered at the same time. Both the flexible and the more intensive class costs you the same per hour, but you have more lessons in the intensive module, rendering it more expensive.\r\n\r\n<strong>Costs:\u00a0<\/strong>Flexible Module 1: 1500 kr\/12 weeks (2.5h\/week) =<strong> 50 kr\/hr.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Next course starts<\/strong>:\u00a0November 28\r\n\r\n<em>*Books and online learning materials included.<\/em>\r\n<em>*Not all modules cost the same.<\/em>\r\n<h1>Studieskolen<\/h1>\r\n<strong>How it works?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studieskolen.dk\/en\/\">Studieskolen<\/a> offers more class options in terms of intensity and meeting times. There are Danish for Scandinavians courses, as well as purely online courses. The courses are divided into six levels, each corresponding to the official module system. However, each level is divided into two courses, students must take both courses to complete a level.\r\n\r\n<strong>Costs:<\/strong> Danish for beginners 1.1 and 1.2 (one level): 2900 kr\/8 weeks (6.75h\/week) = <strong>53,7 kr\/hr.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Next course starts:<\/strong>\u00a0November 12\r\n\r\n<em>*Books and online learning materials included.<\/em>\r\n<em>*Not all modules cost the same.<\/em>\r\n<em>*Class size: 10-18.<\/em>\r\n<h1>Copenhagen Language Centre<\/h1>\r\n<strong>How it works?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbh-sprogcenter.dk\/en\/\">Copenhagen Language Centre<\/a> offers 'Standard' Danish courses which divide each module into two levels; intensive online Danish courses, Danish for Scandinavians courses, as well as courses focused on pronunciation and speaking. The courses are organised based on the official module system.\r\n\r\n<strong>Costs:<\/strong> Beginner course one A1.1: 998 kr\/6 weeks (3h\/week) = <strong>55,4 kr\/hr.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Next course starts:<\/strong>\u00a0November 12\r\n\r\n<em>*Course materials included, except textbooks which should be borrowed or bought.<\/em>\r\n<em>*All modules cost the same regardless of level and difficulty.<\/em>\r\n<h1>Danskbureauet<\/h1>\r\n<strong>How it works?<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/danskbureauet.dk\/en\/\">Danskbureauet<\/a> has a stronger focus on learning Danish fast and for immigration purposes. Hence it offers courses only up to level B2, and they are more exam-oriented. The centre claims to enable students pass the PD3 exam in 8 courses of 6 weeks each.\r\n\r\n<strong>Costs:<\/strong> Direkte dansk 1 is 2980 kr\/6 weeks (4h\/week) =<strong> 124 kr\/hr.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Next course starts:<\/strong> Depends on registration.\r\n\r\n<em>*Course materials not included.<\/em>\r\n<em>*All modules cost the same regardless of level and difficulty.<\/em>\r\n<em>*Class size: 6-8.<\/em>\r\n<h1>Copenhagen Danish Courses<\/h1>\r\n<strong>How it works?<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danishcourses.dk\/en\/\">Copenhagen Danish Courses<\/a> is a smaller school focusing on teaching students with a secondary or tertiary level. However it only offers group classes for beginners, then students will have to proceed with private lessons or lessons focused on pronunciation or writing. The beginner\u2019s course corresponds to the completion of Module 1.\r\n\r\n<strong>Costs:<\/strong> Danish for Beginners is 5980 kr\/4 weeks (8h\/week) =<strong> 185 kr\/hr.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Next course starts:<\/strong>\u00a0November 26.\r\n\r\n<em>*Course materials included.<\/em>\r\n<em>*Class size: maximum 7.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<strong>This article is a list of language schools. If you need tips on <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/tips-on-how-to-finally-learn-danish\/\">how to learn Danish, read the guide here. <\/a><\/strong>\n<!-- end of module 3 -->\n","post_title":"Guide: Language schools to learn Danish in Copenhagen","post_excerpt":"A guide to Danish lessons in Copenhagen for everyone interested in having a couple of phrases in their pocket for daily conversations in class, or maybe just for picking up the cute Dane at the Friday Bar. ","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-students-guide-to-danish-lessons-in-copenhagen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-09-10 10:23:48","post_modified_gmt":"2020-09-10 08:23:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=76692\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"reference":{"ID":12585,"post_author":"12","post_date":"2013-06-15 09:00:06","post_date_gmt":"2013-06-15 07:00:06","post_content":"(Editor's note: Here is our 2016-updated <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/article\/guide-housing-copenhagen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guide to housing in Copenhagen<\/a>)\r\n\r\nThere are two kinds of people in the world: Those who follow the rules and those who make the rules. This guide is for the latter.\r\n\r\nFinding housing in Copenhagen is a real drag. You search for months, only to get no real results. When you finally do get something, it is a small room in the other end of town, with some dude who smokes constantly, keeps the door open while he pees, and sneaks into your room to stare at you while you sleep, as he gently mutters under his breath [this is a true story -ed.]. Worse still, you can only stay until his real roommate returns after four months in India.\r\n\r\nBefore you look these options over, you should know that they have <em>all<\/em> worked.\r\n<h2>1. Become a personal house slave<\/h2>\r\nThis model comes in various forms. Sometimes you find busy families looking for a student to reside with them while helping out around the house. Usually that means living in a big house in some suburb not far from Copenhagen - with children. Also older people or disabled people sometimes look for a young poor person to stay with them while helping out. The conditions vary and you can do anything from grocery shopping, vacuum cleaning, gardening, carrying heavy items, wiping baby butts, and maybe even wiping wrinkly butts...\r\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img title=\"\" src=\"\/old_files\/jovanmandic_istock_94215999_medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\r\n<em>Photo by Jovanmandic<\/em>\r\n<strong>Challenge:<\/strong>\r\nYou don't find these offers like you find hipsters in the city center, so stay alert and look out. Think bingo banquets, mother-baby caf\u00e9s, and Anonymous Alcoholics-meetings. Also, it might not hurt to explain all the mutual benefits to whomever you identify as a person in need of slave labour.\r\n\r\n<strong>What to do:<\/strong>\r\nThere are several ways to go about this. Put up posters in supermarkets, refine your searches on accommodation sites to include families, and make your own original profile on websites stating your idea. Find the right place with the <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/guide-to-copenhagen-housing-websites\/\">University Post's guide to accommodation websites<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Bonus:<\/strong>\r\nThis writer got a large, cheap room working as the personal slave to three young, career\/party oriented guys in the middle of the city. Deal: Clean once a week and keep the house tidy.\r\n<h2>2. Make your own dormitory<\/h2>\r\nEver tried looking through housing ads only to find these huge, beautiful old apartments in Copenhagen, that, for one moment, make you think, \"Maybe if I drop out of school and work full-time as a prostitute I can live in this neo-classicist palace?\" Well, you can and it doesn't have to come with moral bankruptcy.\r\n\r\nHere is what you do: Find a palace of your dreams - it can be a five bedroom with a tower overlooking the lakes or a penthouse with panoramic windows overlooking the city square. Start hyping it - do it on Facebook, Twitter, the university etc. Find roommates and agree on price and conditions. Sign the lease and pay your deposit. You have now become a dormitory master.\r\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img title=\"\" src=\"\/old_files\/de_benutzer_priwo_lego-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\r\n<em>Photo by de Benutzer Priwo<\/em>\r\n<strong>Challenge:<\/strong>\r\nRaising the deposit and handling logistics of getting roommates to agree on leasing a room - before they have perhaps been able to see it - can be challenging. However, it is just a logistic knot to slice carefully. Another obstacle is, that some tenants don't want students to form dormitories. This can be solved only by lying, or by avoiding them.\r\n\r\n<strong>What to do:<\/strong>\r\nMake your own collective - or join one. <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/article\/big-audition\/\">Find out what it's like living in one here<\/a>. If you want to start your own, search in the <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/guide-to-copenhagen-housing-websites\/\">University Post's guide to accommodation websites<\/a>.\r\n<h2>3. Give up on big city dreams and move to the country<\/h2>\r\nYou are hip. You are cool. You have dreams of crawling out of bed with a hoggish hangover after a bar-hop round the city, which demands first tikka masala, later vegan-sushi followed by paleo bread with Icelandic fat-free cheese.\r\n\r\nWell, city boy\/girl\/etc., your fair-trade fat-free soy-milk double mocha-frappe-latte is nowhere to be found in the outskirts of Denmark. Here, a burger is called a beef sandwich and a bratwurst with french fries is multicultural cuisine. What you will find though, that is so bloody hard to get in Copenhagen, is fresh air, pristine grass, and great value for money when it comes to finding a place to stay.\r\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img title=\"\" src=\"\/old_files\/mariakraynova.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\r\n<em>Photo by Maria Kraynova<\/em>\r\n<strong>Challenge:<\/strong>\r\nThe further away you are willing to leave the Mother Ship, the cheaper housing you can get. This might not fit your job\/social\/lifestyle situation all too well and what you gain in square meters you lose travelling back and forth.\r\n\r\n<strong>What to do:<\/strong>\r\nWave bye bye to big city life and set your search for postal codes higher than 2700. Make your own collective - or join one. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postnr.info\/\">See a full list of postal codes<\/a> while deciding just how far you are willing to travel and enter the number of your desperation on one of the websites on the <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/guide-to-copenhagen-housing-websites\/\">University Post's guide to accommodation websites<\/a>.\r\n<h2>4. Make an offer hard to resist<\/h2>\r\nEverything is for sale, even Jesus' soul. Not only does money talk, it also walks, and it will take you further than anything else. So, if you can afford it, use money to find a place to stay. For instance, when writing an application, you can offer to pay DKK 500 more in rent, offer people rewards to find you a place or, when you talk to people who have extra room but no plans of renting it out, make them an offer that they can't refuse.\r\n\r\n<strong>What to do:<\/strong>\r\nFind a greedy landlord on the <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/guide-to-copenhagen-housing-websites\/\">University Post's guide to accommodation websites<\/a>.\r\n<h2>5. Find a lonely retired person<\/h2>\r\nA sad fact of life \u2014 people get old, and then they die. It's sad for them, and it's sad for their spouses because all of a sudden, old people live alone in huge houses or apartments. They don't need a roommate for financial reasons, but they could greatly benefit from a vivid, studious and helpful young person such as yourself.\r\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img title=\"\" src=\"\/old_files\/katarzynabialasiewicz.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\r\n<em>Photo by Katarzyna Bialasiewicz<\/em>\r\n<strong>Challenge:<\/strong>\r\nFinding old, retired people who wants a student roommate is sort of like hunting for albino rhinos. They are close to extinction. You probably won't find them in the cyber-jungle. But the biggest challenge may not even be to find them. It is to make them realise how dramatically their life will change with more life than house plants in their living rooms. Still, with point three and six in mind, it should be able to work out.\r\n\r\n<strong>What to do:<\/strong>\r\nLook for them in their natural habitats. Retirement clubs, night schools, gym classes. They are most active between 8 am and 1 pm. With 56,957 activities a year, \u00c6ldresagen (organization for elders) makes the impossible possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeldresagen.dk\/aktiviteter-og-kurser\/find-aktiviteter-og-kurser\/soeg\">Find your event here<\/a>.\r\n<h2>6. Old school marketing<\/h2>\r\nThe golden rule in marketing is: always be present. You are trying to sell yourself, along with everyone else, and you are all present in the same medium: the internet. But using the online market as your exhibition window means that the quality produce that you are may disappear among the herd of lesser quality produce that is everyone else. Aside from the typical accommodation websites and social media, advertise your roommate awesomeness in alternative places.\r\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img title=\"\" src=\"\/old_files\/melpomenem_istock_46185270_medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\r\n<em>Photo by Melpomenem<\/em>\r\n<strong>Challenge:<\/strong>\r\nThe benefit of this way is also its weakness. You are a blind fisherman, throwing your net in the dark of night. It's not very efficient. You may end up spending hours of work hanging up posters only to see them torn down next time you pass. You impose yourself on countless innocent bystanders most of whom don't give a rat's ass about you and your non-existing place to stay. But then again, you only need to catch one...\r\n\r\n<strong>What to do:<\/strong>\r\nWrite a short description of yourself, add a decent picture (read; as someone people will want to both party and philosophise with). Plaster the neighbourhood of your dreams until there is no space left: put it on walls, caf\u00e8s, supermarkets. Every smooth surface is a canvas for your unsolicited marketing.\r\n\r\n<strong>Bonus:<\/strong>\r\nTired of no results, Mathias Andersen plastered the entire Copenhagen quarter of Vesterbro with ads describing his pleasant personality and a picture illustrating the obvious benefits of his company. Did it work? Hell yeah, one month and Mathias now lives exactly where he wants to, discovered by curious people one of the 8.256 supermarket walls adorned with his face.\r\n<h2>7. Couchsurfing \u2013 2 ways<\/h2>\r\nCouchsurfing - a website for the young, adventurous and culturally hungry. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchsurfing.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Couchsurfing<\/a> links travelers across the world, usually by a local host offering his couch to a fellow traveler. It's free and has more than 10 million members.\r\n\r\nCouchsurfing is a temporary solution (although you surely make very pleasant company, having a sofa-resident free-of-charge for months might annoy even the hippiest host), but it could grow into something permanent. If you come from abroad and therefore lack the so-important network, couchsurfing is a great way to meet new friends. And new friends can perhaps spam their network to help you get a permanent place to live.\r\n\r\nAnother way this can work is that your couch-host with time discovers that they can't live without you\/they could use the extra rent for that tiny closet\/room\/thing that's all filled up with old teddy bears anyway - and your couch-host offers you a room.\r\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img title=\"\" src=\"\/old_files\/maxim_zarya_copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\r\n<em>Collage made using mad photoshop skills on photos by Maxim Zarya and EpicStockMedia<\/em>\r\n<strong>Challenge:<\/strong>\r\nChemistry is a must, so the biggest challenge with couchsurfing is that you may not surf with people who you connect with. You may also have to go far, and eventually tire of living from your suitcase.\r\n\r\n<strong>What to do:<\/strong>\r\nWhen signing up, it is crucial to keep in mind that your rate of success is directly proportional to the amount of energy you put into your profile. Use your interests\/hobbies\/experiences as an eye-catcher and make sure you actually read peoples' profile and write them individual emails. Nobody wants to befriend nor house a robot. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchsurfing.org\/\">Sign up for Couchsurfing<\/a>.\r\n<h2>8. Living in a trailer<\/h2>\r\nTrailer parks \/ caravans are not just for trailer trash \u2014 they are also for for broke-ass students with no place to live. If you find a park, you can live quite comfortably \u2014 running water, electricity, and only marginally less space than a dorm room. If you really want to do it on the cheap, and borderline legal, you can also park your trailer on public property, and use the shower facilities of a nearby gym, or swimming pool, or you can just take showers on campus \u2014 many university buildings have shower facilities in their basements. With gym memberships starting at DKK 50 a month, you can get in shape, and stay clean all at once.\r\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img title=\"\" src=\"\/old_files\/sitikka_istock_61422458_medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\r\n<em>Photo by Sitikka<\/em>\r\n<strong>What to do:<\/strong>\r\nObviously, you need a trailer or a caravan. That said, a second hand trailer could be bought relatively cheap. At the time of writing, this reporter easily found a classic, rust-free 1967 camping trailer, with a double bed, for DKK 8000.\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\n","post_title":"8 creative ways to find accommodation in Copenhagen","post_excerpt":"They tell us it is all about knowing the right people. Yeah right! This is no use if you are new to the city. Here are eight unorthodox ways to get a roof over your head in Copenhagen. All tested, and they work! 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The University of Copenhagen has loads of parks and green areas that are excellent for introductory beers and late summer homework.\r\n\r\nTIP: Watch out for Amorphophallus titanum, which continues to be the subject of particular attention. The plant is better known as the corpse flower, or in Danish the penis flower, due to its phallic-like design. It blooms only for a few days every several years, then smelling, according to reports, of rotten meat. Now you have a story to impress your fellow students on your park tour.\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\n<h2>The romantic one: Landboh\u00f8jskolen Garden<\/h2>\r\nIn the old agricultural college in the quiet Frederiksberg district is a quiet set of university gardens. Forget the failed pickup lines in the Friday bar and invite your crush on a tour of the Landboh\u00f8jskolen Garden. The park is laid out in the style of classic romanticism, and with more than 6,000 plant varieties, there are enough conversation topics for even the most inexperienced daters.\r\n\r\nIn the garden you will find the cozy V\u00e6ksthuset caf\u00e9 where the barista brewed coffee is so good that the place has won the University Post prize for the University of Copenhagen\u2019s best coffee shop.\r\n\r\nAs a bonus, the V\u00e6ksthuset is run by volunteers from the Faculty of Science, and your study card gives you discounts on coffee and food. If the date really ends well you can finish off with a bottle of ros\u00e9 for DKK 179.\r\n\r\nTIP: In the middle of the garden there is a small footbridge over a park lake. Pure H. C. Andersen, and the perfect place to gather up your courage for that first kiss.\n<!-- end of module 2 -->\n<h2>The party one: University park<\/h2>\r\n<em>Universitetsparken <\/em>on North Campus is the epicenter of the annual Spring Festival. Pre-pandemic, more than 12.000 sociable students and employees participated in the festivities.\r\n\r\nBut the university park, Universitetsparken, is always worth a visit.\r\n\r\nThe park is relatively informal with its flat lawns well suited to games like softball and beer bowling. In the bright sun, a trip to the university park can be a good way to relax and spend the day with new or old classmates. Incidentally: Volunteers planted more than 10,000 wild plants in the university park in 2016. So the place is also for you with green fingers.\n<!-- end of module 3 -->\n<h2>The hidden one: Sun garden <em>Solhaven<\/em> at CSS city campus<\/h2>\r\nThe Center for Health and Society (CSS) campus in the city is steeped in history and leather-bound books. So much that we sometimes forget that the brown-yellow buildings and associated gardens right up to 1995 were used as a municipal hospital and not as a university campus.\r\n\r\nTucked away in a corner of CSS you will find <em>Solhaven<\/em> - easiest to access via the entrance at Gammeltoftsgade - unless you want to test your sense of direction in the labyrinthine CSS hallways.\r\n\r\nOn most days, it is dead quiet, but during intro weeks and on the CSS campus day it is full speed ahead. Enjoy a cup of coffee from the Caf\u00e9 Kommunen at CSS, or walk in to the all-day opening hours political science bar Jacques D and take out a couple of beers out into the lovely garden.\n<!-- end of module 4 -->\n<h2>The edible one: Pometet<\/h2>\r\nWe admit that the Pometet with its Taastrup location is not a simple getaway after class. But the Pometet with its collection of fruit trees and bushes is a fun, and different tour, to take your fellow students on. The park, which is part of the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, exhibits more than 750 varieties of apples and a large number of berry and nuts varieties.\r\n<h2>The one that's still fresh: SUND Nature Park by the Maersk Building<\/h2>\r\nThe new landmark of the University of Copenhagen has been covered in prizes since its official opening in January 2019. Prizes for the roof, front, and interior. But the building is more than just the neat shaped bronze tower. It is also a green area, created for the students to get fresh air to the brain, especially in the warm late summer.\r\n\r\nPanum's old parking lots between N\u00f8rre All\u00e9 and Blegdamsvej has been shut down and replaced by poppies and cornflowers, tall grass and exotic species of plants.\n<!-- end of module 5 -->\n<h2>The modern one: Karen Blixens Plads on South Campus<\/h2>\r\n\u00bbKUA is a place where the spirit cannot thrive\u00ab. 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