innovation hub<\/a> offers shared office facilities at the University of Copenhagen with room for creative students.<\/p>\nDorthe Lynnerup who manages the community is proud of this, but feels that teaching business skills is at least as important as producing viable start-ups.<\/p>\n
\u00bbOur student-start-ups have the same survival rate as anywhere else in entrepreneurship. This is pretty striking, but to us it is just as important to produce graduates with an entrepreneurial mindset, as to see them registering a company while they are still students\u00ab.<\/p>\n
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But the debt collection agency <em>G<\/em><em>\u00e6ldsstyrelsen<\/em> has acknowledged it\u2019s virtually impossible to collect the unserviced student grant SU-loans from those who\u2019ve returned to countries such as Somalia, Iran, and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy director Ulrik Pedersen said the agency is doing everything it can, but many of the students could have moved three or four times since they left Denmark and are difficult to trace. \u00bbWe\u2019re now in the process of hiring a private debt collecting firm which will provide us with the ability to make steps to recover the money outside the EU,\u00ab he said.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is the EU country with the biggest student debt to Denmark \u2013 DKK 35.4m.<\/p>\n<h1>Swedish ombudsman to look into doctoral student expulsions<\/h1>\n<p>The Swedish government\u2019s migration agency has been reported to its parliamentary ombudsman for misconduct after it expelled international doctoral students who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityworldnews.com\/post.php?story=20190322114529553\">graduated within a shorter study time than allocated, reports University World News.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The argument that you should be expelled because you have managed to graduate in less time than applied for when starting is so stupid that it cannot be compared to anything<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Robert Andersson, head negotiator for the Swedish Association for University Teachers and Researchers<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A 2014 rule states that only non-Swedish citizens who have a residence permit in Sweden for four years within a seven-year period have the right to permanent residence in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe argument that you should be expelled because you have managed to graduate in less time than applied for when starting is so stupid that it cannot be compared to anything,\u00ab said \u00a0Robert Andersson, head negotiator for the Swedish Association for University Teachers and Researchers.<\/p>\n<h1>Denmark winning over Sweden, Netherlands in wooing the scientists<\/h1>\n<p>If Sweden is giving itself a bad name, Denmark seems to be holding its own at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>It is certainly doing well in terms of its \u2018balance of trade\u2019 in scientists and researchers. \u00a0A <a href=\"https:\/\/ufm.dk\/forskning-og-innovation\/rad-og-udvalg\/danmarks-forsknings-og-innovationspolitiske-rad\/aktuelt\/dfir-briefs\/filer\/dfirbrief-15-international-forskermobilitet.pdf\">register-based study by DAMVAD Analytics<\/a> shows that in the period 2002-2016, Denmark gained approximately 1,500 researchers, net of Danish and non-Danish researchers who emigrated or returned to a foreign country.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden gained nearly 800, whereas Netherlands had a net loss of 700 researchers in the period 2002-2016. The Danish balance of trade in researchers was positive throughout the whole period. The Netherlands and Sweden, by contrast, saw large fluctuations.<\/p>\n<h1>US to partner up with GeoGenetics centre to find evolutionary history of brain disorders<\/h1>\n<p>US-based biotech company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.illumina.com\/\">Illumina<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genengnews.com\/news\/illumina-lundbeck-foundation-geogenetics-centre-to-study-microbes-role-in-neuropsychiatric-disorders\/\">struck a deal with the GeoGenetics Section at the University of Copenhagen<\/a> to explore the relationship between the evolutionary history of mental and neurological disorders and infectious pathogens.<\/p>\n<p>Illumina, which is based in San Diego, works in the\u00a0sequencing,\u00a0genotyping\u00a0and\u00a0gene expression\u00a0and\u00a0proteomics\u00a0markets. \u00a0The new partners aim to learn more about the medical and biological factors underlying the development of human neuropsychiatric diseases through the ages.<\/p>\n<p>Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen, and colleagues plan to build one of the largest sets of ancient human and pathogen genomic reference panels ever created, through complete DNA mapping of thousands of ancient Eurasian human remains. Data will be obtained from bones and teeth, with the oldest remains dating back 10,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe \u2026 know that chronic viral, bacterial, and fungal infections might be causative factors in neuropsychiatric diseases, so there is every reason to believe that the analyses of DNA from this period will show significant trends, giving us the ability to create new, publicly available reference sets, to enhance both the scientific and healthcare communities\u2019 understanding of disease evolution,\u00ab Willerslev said.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Eske Willerslev explaining the project on a video:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nJ4m2Jp3o3U<\/p>\n<h1>Women four years older than men for the same diseases<\/h1>\n<p>For a wide range of diseases, d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-6849063\/Women-diagnosed-years-later-men-diseases.html\">iagnosis comes later in life for women than for men, according to a large University of Copenhagen study of 6.9 million Danish people over a 21-year period<\/a>. The study of health data found that across hundreds of diseases, women on average were diagnosed when they were about four years older than the age at which the conditions were recognized in men.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe’re not just looking at one disease here, we’re looking at all diseases and we are looking at an entire population, from cradle to grave,\u00ab lead author S\u00f8ren Brunak from the University of Copenhagen told Reuters Health.<\/p>\n<h1>University of Copenhagen star alumna Vestager in bid to be EU president<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_83793\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83793\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-83793 size-narrow\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/danielhjorthuniavismargrethevestagerhighres001webhigh1280x853-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/danielhjorthuniavismargrethevestagerhighres001webhigh1280x853-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/danielhjorthuniavismargrethevestagerhighres001webhigh1280x853-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/danielhjorthuniavismargrethevestagerhighres001webhigh1280x853-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/danielhjorthuniavismargrethevestagerhighres001webhigh1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/danielhjorthuniavismargrethevestagerhighres001webhigh1280x853-290x193.jpg 290w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/danielhjorthuniavismargrethevestagerhighres001webhigh1280x853-990x660.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-83793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of Copenhagen’s star graduate Margrethe Vestager<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Margrethe Vestager\u2019s quest to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president\u00a0has kicked off, but the high-profile competition\u00a0chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/margrethe-vestager-faces-brutal-obstacle-course-to-succeed-jean-claude-juncker-european-commission-president\/\">risks falling at the first hurdle, reports politico.eu.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vestager is arguably the University of Copenhagen\u2019s most famous alumna after her high profile battles against U.S. tech giants such as Google and Apple. Her immediate problem is that her home country of Denmark looks unlikely to nominate her for a top Commission post, according to the politico analysis.<\/p>\n<p>It is the Europe\u2019s liberal ALDE group that has Vestager among its seven candidates for May\u2019s European election.<\/p>\n<h1>Surge in science student start-ups in Copenhagen<\/h1>\n<p>The University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Science <a href=\"https:\/\/copenhagensciencecity.dk\/surge-in-science-students-seeking-start-up-skills-in-copenhagen\/\">Innovation Hub is popular at the moment.<\/a> In 2018, 143 students worked on 69 start-up ideas. That is a 30 percent increase over 2017. Five of the teams have gotten as far as market introduction. A further ten are currently going through prototyping or pilot testing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To us it is just as important to produce graduates with an entrepreneurial mindset, as to see them registering a company while they are still students<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Dorthe Lynnerup, manager of Science Innovation Hub<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.ku.dk\/science-innovation-hub\/science-innovation-hub\/about-science-innovation-hub\/\">innovation hub<\/a> offers shared office facilities at the University of Copenhagen with room for creative students.<\/p>\n<p>Dorthe Lynnerup who manages the community is proud of this, but feels that teaching business skills is at least as important as producing viable start-ups.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbOur student-start-ups have the same survival rate as anywhere else in entrepreneurship. This is pretty striking, but to us it is just as important to produce graduates with an entrepreneurial mindset, as to see them registering a company while they are still students\u00ab.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write to miy@adm.ku.dk if you have any ideas, or suggestions for stories or links on the next Weekly Intel!<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"Dansk","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Receive a weekly newsletter in your inbox","button_text":"Tilmeld nu","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"Weekly Intel","hand_picked_posts":true,"references":[{"reference":{"ID":83542,"post_author":"9","post_date":"2019-03-22 14:39:54","post_date_gmt":"2019-03-22 13:39:54","post_content":"<h1>Danes said they were happy again<\/h1>\r\nDanes are second in the world in terms of happiness.\r\n\r\nOr let\u2019s be honest: Second in the world in bragging about their well-being to pollsters.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-narrow wp-image-83558 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cyclistsatred101280x720-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Finland is happiest country in the world, according to the 2019 World Happiness Report which was released Wednesday. Least happy was South Sudan,\r\n\r\nMeik Wiking, CEO of the Copenhagen-based Happiness Research Institute, said the five Nordic countries that reliably rank high in the index \u00bbare doing something right in terms of creating good conditions for good lives\u00ab.\r\n\r\nTo see how <a href=\"http:\/\/worldhappiness.report\/ed\/2019\/#read\">other countries rank click here.<\/a>\r\n<h1>Cheated to get into elite US universities<\/h1>\r\nTwo students have filed a class-action lawsuit in the largest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityworldnews.com\/post.php?story=20190313131516809\">ever college admissions cheating scam ever to be prosecuted in the US<\/a>. This is after dozens of individuals, who allegedly conspired to cheat on US exams to elite universities, were arrested by federal agents in multiple US states last week.\r\n\r\nElite schools Yale, Stanford and Georgetown were among the destination universities, but there is no suggestion that the schools were involved in wrongdoing.\r\n\r\nThe defendants, who are largely wealthy and include CEOs of major companies, allegedly bribed exam administrators to allow others to secretly take college entrance exams in place of students. Or even to correct the students\u2019 answers after they had taken the exam.\r\n<h1>Norway now also cancelling Elsevier contracts<\/h1>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_83557\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"480\"]<img class=\"wp-image-83557\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/universitetetioslosentrum-480x267.jpg\" alt=\"University of Oslo\" width=\"480\" height=\"267\" \/> University of Oslo[\/caption]\r\n\r\nNorway has become the latest country to cancel its contracts with scientific publishing giant Elsevier following a dispute over access to research papers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/news-opinion\/norway-joins-list-of-countries-canceling-elsevier-contracts-65594\">writes The Scientist<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research (UNIT), which represents research institutions in the country, rejected Elsevier\u2019s offer to lower some of its costs for Norwegian institutions because it didn\u2019t go far enough to promote free access to published research.\r\n\r\nNorway isn\u2019t the first Scandinavian country to make the move. Last summer, a consortium of institutions in Sweden dropped Elsevier after a similar dispute. \u00bbThe current system for scholarly communication must change, and our only option is to cancel deals when they don\u2019t meet our demands for a sustainable transition to open access,\u00ab Astrid S\u00f6derbergh Widding, president of Stockholm University and chair of the consortium, told OpenAccess.se, a blog published by the National Library of Sweden, at the time.\r\n\r\nSimilar disputes have also caused loss of access for multiple institutions in Germany, including the massive research organization the Max Planck Society. Danish universities have yet to follow suit, but interest group Universities Denmark has been active in <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/800-european-universities-ask-the-eu-commissioner-to-help-them-fight-the-big-journals\/\">getting European universities to fight the publisher<\/a> through the EU Commission.\r\n<h1>Evolutionary limbo for diving beetles<\/h1>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_83556\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"700\"]<img class=\"wp-image-83556 size-narrow\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/beetle-700x465.jpg\" alt=\"Diving beetle\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" \/> Diving beetle \u00a9 Niels Sloth\/Biopix[\/caption]\r\n\r\nSexual conflict is normally seen as driving populations towards evolving into distinct\u00a0species.\r\n\r\nBut a group of scientists, including some from the University of Copenhagen, have looked at the diving beetle and found the opposite. Their findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society.\r\n\r\n\u00bbOur study challenges previous ideas of sexual conflict as an engine of speciation\u00ab says Lars L. Iversen, a researcher at Arizona State University and a Carlsberg Foundation research fellow.\r\n\r\n\u00bbUsually females evolve ways to escape the mating harassment from males and this could initiate the evolution of new species. Here, we document an alternative outcome, that sexual conflict instead prevents populations from diverging from each other and becoming new species.\u00ab\r\n\r\nIt all has to do with male suction cups and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-03\/fos--amw032019.php\">smooth or granulated structure of female backs, and is explained better here.<\/a>\r\n\r\nBut the upshot is that diving beetles are kept in an evolutionary limbo, and that two type of females are maintained by ongoing and intense mating harassment from the males.\r\n<h1>Egtved girl not, actually, from southern Germany after all<\/h1>\r\nSo we all believed the University of Copenhagen study proving that the Bronze Age priestess, the Egtved Girl, <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/denmarks-iconic-bronze-age-egtved-girl-was-from-germany\/\">was in fact a 'Schwarzwald girl' who originally came from this the region in the south of present-day Germany<\/a>.\r\n\r\nNot so fast, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65017-priestess-probably-not-world-traveler.html\">new research from the other large Danish university, Aarhus.<\/a> She was actually more likely a local, and Denmark can indeed lay full claim to the iconic, well-preserved remains that were found in Jutland and can be seen in the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.\r\n\r\nTwo Bronze Age women \u2014 the Egtved Girl and the Skrydstrup woman\u2014 were most likely homebodies who never left what is now modern-day Denmark, the study finds.\r\n\r\nIn two previous studies, researchers analyzed isotopes in the women's remains, so they could piece together where the women had lived. But now, new research finds that these analyses were likely contaminated by modern agricultural lime.\r\n\r\n\u00bbUsing strontium [isotopes] to trace prehistoric people should therefore be done with great care and a good understanding of the land use,\u00ab said study co-researcher Rasmus Andreasen, an isotope geochemist at the Department of Geoscience at Aarhus University in Denmark. \u00bbOtherwise, you can end up with wrong conclusions.\u00ab\r\n\r\nCopenhagen researchers are having none of it.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_83560\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"700\"]<img class=\"wp-image-83560 size-narrow\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/karinmfrei-700x531.jpg\" alt=\"Karin Frei at the time of the original study, with the Egtved girl's tooth\" width=\"700\" height=\"531\" \/> Karin Frei at the time of the original study, with the Egtved girl's tooth[\/caption]\r\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\">\u00bbOverall, there is nothing in the study from Aarhus which changes our interpretation: That the two women from the Bronze Age came from afar,\u00ab says Karin Frei, a professor at the National Museum of Denmark, and Robert Frei, a professor of geology and geochemistry at the University of Copenhagen in a response to Live Science.<\/p>\r\nKarin Frei says their interpretation is \u00bbover-simplistic\u00ab.\r\n\r\nThe remains of the Egtved Girl, who some surmise was a priestess, and the Skrydstrup Woman, were found in Denmark in 1921 and 1935 respectively.\r\n<h1>10 million Norwegian kroner to UCPH research<\/h1>\r\nTwo researchers from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine have received <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/milliardaer-giver-10-millioner-norske-kroner-til-ku-forskning\/\">DKK 7.7 million from the Olav Thon Foundation<\/a> for a joint Nordic research project in skeletal stem cells.\r\n\r\nThe wealthy 95 year-old Norwegian Olav Thon presented the winners of the Olav Thon Foundation Research Awards 2019 in a Norwegian folk costume with red knitted hat.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_83369\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"700\"]<img class=\"wp-image-83369 size-narrow\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/olavthonawards2019forskningssamarbeidinnenmedisindsc03014-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"Olaw Thon Awards 2019 \" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/> Olaw Thon Awards 2019[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe lucky recipients are professor Moustapha Kassem and assistant professor Abbas Jafari Kermani from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and The Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Copenhagen, and a research colleague at the University of Oslo.\r\n\r\n<em>Write to miy@adm.ku.dk if you have any ideas, or suggestions for stories or links on the next Weekly Intel!<\/em>\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\n","post_title":"Weekly Intel: Fight over Egtved Girl \/ Norway joins Sweden in shunning Elsevier","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"weekly-intel-fight-over-egtved-girl-norway-joins-sweden-in-shunning-elsevier","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-03-22 15:00:51","post_modified_gmt":"2019-03-22 14:00:51","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=83542\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"reference":{"ID":82535,"post_author":"9","post_date":"2019-03-01 09:42:22","post_date_gmt":"2019-03-01 08:42:22","post_content":"<h1>Sociology students to help govt. analyse shoppers<\/h1>\r\nNo more laid back abstract discussions of sociological method in dusty classrooms. The Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has started a new cooperation with the Danish Ministry for Energy, Utilities and Climate and a small NGO on a specific, hands-on research project.\r\n\r\nThe students are to investigate <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/studerende-paa-sociologi-skal-hjaelpe-ministerium\/\">what it is that informs consumers\u2019 choices in supermarkets\u00a0[article in Danish]<\/a>, and what it takes to change habits so that purchases are more climate-friendly.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-82290\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mad-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00bb\b\bI'm very excited about the fact that we have managed to get this cooperation going. This is something that I have wanted to do for a long time, and something I think will enhance students' job opportunities when they tell employers what they can contribute with as sociologists,\u00ab says Professor Claire Maxwell, who teaches the methodology course Applied Case Study Analysis at the Department of Sociology.\r\n\r\nThe course is compulsory on the 6th semester of the bachelor programme.\u00a0 45 students are to take part in the Ministry\u2019s project.\r\n<h1>\u2019Chromosome scanner\u2019 against cancer<\/h1>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-82548\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/groth1100-700x403.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ku.dk\/all_news\/2019\/02\/researchers-discover-chromosome-scanner-that-protects-against-cancer\/\">identified one of the main mechanisms behind the repair of damage to human DNA<\/a>.\r\n\r\nA \u2018scanner\u2019 inside cells decides whether or not to launch so-called flawless DNA repair, which protects against cancer.\r\n\r\nThe study has been published in the scientific journal Nature Cell Biology.\r\n\r\n\u00bbWe have discovered how the cell launches the flawless system for serious DNA damage repair and thus protects against cancer. This is done using a protein you could call a \u2018scanner\u2019, which scans the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Histone\"> histones<\/a> in the cell and on that basis launches the repair process,\u00ab says the researcher behind the study, Professor Anja Groth from the Biotech Research & Innovation Centre.\r\n<h1>This year's elite research prizes<\/h1>\r\nCrown Princess Mary and Minister for Education and Science Tommy Ahlers just awarded the elite researcher<a href=\"https:\/\/ufm.dk\/forskning-og-innovation\/forskningsformidling\/eliteforsk\/nyt-om-eliteforsk\/fem-excellente-forskere-hyldes-med-eliteforsk-priser1c5b1046949840bf82c659cdd8477432\"> EliteForsk prizes<\/a> to five of Denmark's younger researchers.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-6757417\/Crown-Princess-Mary-Denmark-EliteForsk-awards-Copenhagen.html\">So here is the British news site Daily Mail's pictures of the 47 year-old Crown Princess Mary's stylish entrance by boat to the awards ceremony wearing Dolce & Gabbana<\/a>.\r\n\r\nFor the more financially interested, the five researchers will each receive DKK 1.2 million. Of this amount, DKK 1m is for their research activities while the remaining DKK 200,000 is a personal honorary award.\r\n\r\nAnd for the university buffs, this year's recipients come from the Technical University of Denmark DTU, Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen:\r\n\r\nProfessor in physics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dtu.dk\/english\/service\/phonebook\/person?id=13069&tab=1\"><strong>Kristian Sommer Thygesen<\/strong><\/a>, Department of Physics, DTU.\r\nProfessor of biology <a href=\"http:\/\/pure.au.dk\/portal\/da\/persons\/professor-peter-teglberg-madsen(e2250b1d-03d7-4c8c-aca8-74ee4d7206c2).html\"><strong>Peter Teglberg Madsen<\/strong><\/a>, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University.\r\nProfessor of political science <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/polsci.ku.dk\/ansatte\/vip\/?pure=da\/persons\/194893\">Rebecca Adler-Nissen<\/a><\/strong>, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.\r\nProfessor of molecular biology <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.ku.dk\/staff\/?pure=en\/persons\/371269\">Chunaram Choudhary<\/a><\/strong>, Centre for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen\r\nClinical professor of medicine, <a href=\"http:\/\/pure.au.dk\/portal\/en\/persons\/niels-jessen(f0d20e5e-d5b5-44da-980e-3e052af18b46).html\"><strong>Niels Jessen<\/strong>,<\/a> Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University.\r\n\r\n\u00bbToday we celebrate the best. The very best within their field of research,\u00ab said Tommy Ahlers.\r\n<h1>Universities need to pull their socks up<\/h1>\r\n<blockquote>\u201cPublic investment in research is DKK 23 billion, which is the highest level in the world ... But we do not get sufficient results from these investments.\u201d\r\n<p class=\"quotee\">Minister for Higher Education and Science Tommy Ahlers on a tour of universities<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\nUniversities in Denmark are to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityworldnews.com\/post.php?story=2019022210040961\">create 10 business start-up companies, each with a turnover of DKK 1 billion, over the next decade<\/a>. This is the requirement set by Minister of Higher Education and Science Tommy Ahlers as he tours Danish universities.\r\n\r\n\u00bbIt is my vision that Denmark also shall become an entrepreneur in transferring research into innovation and businesses,\u00ab Ahlers told students at the Copenhagen Business School in late January, later publishing his vision in the newspaper\u00a0B\u00f8rsen\u00a0and via a press statement from the ministry.\r\n\r\n\u00bbPublic investment in research is DKK 23 billion, which is the highest level in the world, and when including private investments in research we are number five or six,\u00ab he said. \u00bbBut we do not get sufficient results from these investments.\u00ab\r\n<h1>74 PhD scholarships in EU-funded Science programme<\/h1>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-82539\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1024pxaugustkroghinstitute-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"August Krogh Institute\" \/>The\u00a0second <a href=\"https:\/\/euraxess.ec.europa.eu\/worldwide\/asean\/denmark-35-phd-positions-talent-programme-university-copenhagen-asean\">call for applications for 35 PhD positions<\/a> is now open under the Faculty of Science\u2019s EU funded TALENT programme at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). Deadline is 1st\u00a0April 2019 for the programme, which is financing a total of 74 PhDs.\r\n\r\nYou can <a href=\"https:\/\/talent.ku.dk\/about-the-doctoral-programme\/\">read more about the programme here.<\/a>\r\n\r\n<em>Write to miy@adm.ku.dk if you have any ideas, or suggestions for stories or links on the next Weekly Intel!<\/em>\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\n","post_title":"Weekly Intel: A little more action for sociologists \/ Minister: Unis need to step up","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"weekly-intel-a-little-more-action-for-sociologists-minister-unis-need-to-step-up","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-04-08 09:14:34","post_modified_gmt":"2019-04-08 07:14:34","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=82535\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"reference":{"ID":81422,"post_author":"9","post_date":"2019-02-08 10:12:59","post_date_gmt":"2019-02-08 09:12:59","post_content":"<h3>Erasmus risk for students if UK crashes out of EU<\/h3>\r\nThousands of students could be denied government funding to study abroad in the future if the United Kingdom leaves the European Union without a deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityworldnews.com\/post.php?story=20190130071804172\">Universities UK warns on University World News<\/a>.\r\n\r\nBritish students currently in Europe on Erasmus+ placements should continue to receive funding for the duration of their time abroad, according to a UK government\u00a0notice.\u00a0And young people from the EU and the UK on an Erasmus+ programme can complete their stay without interruption, according to a proposal by the European Commission, in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\r\n\r\nHowever, the proposals require approval from the European Parliament and the European Council before they can take effect. And neither the UK nor the European Commission addresses the future of UK participation in Erasmus+ post-Brexit for those students or academics who are not already participating.\r\n<h3>Precocious kid<\/h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-81230 size-narrow\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dsc0440dxomaxfischerweb-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"Max Fischer i januar 2019\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/>Wunderkind Max Fischer was the youngest student at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) when he started studying mathematics at the age of 16 in 2017.\r\n\r\nNow it\u2019s February 2019, he is 17, and he is <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/max-er-17-aar-og-bachelor\/\">ready to take on his master\u2019<\/a>s.\r\n\r\nHe says he will use the prescribed two years to finish it.\r\n\r\n\"I managed to get through the bachelor's degree on half the time, because I had read a lot of the math as a tutorial during my primary and lower secondary school, and so I had a good grasp of the curriculum,\" says Max Fischer.\r\n\r\n<em>Do you, dear reader, want to feel even more inadequate?<\/em>\r\n\r\nHere is a longer interview with Max Fischer where he outlines <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/he-has-been-ready-for-university-since-he-was-11\/\">how he has been ready for university since he was 11 years old.<\/a>\r\n<h3>Chinese professorship and DKK 2.4 million to sacked Hans Thybo<\/h3>\r\nFormer professor at the University of Copenhagen Hans Thybo has <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/et-kinesisk-professorat-og-24-millioner-kroner-til-hans-thybo\/\">taken up a professorship at the China University of Geosciences<\/a> and has been awarded an honour under the Chinese 'Thousand Talents' plan. The 2.5 million yuan (DKK 2.4m) prize is partly to Hans Thybo personally, partly for research and equipment.\r\n\r\nHans Thybo was controversially dismissed from his professorship at the University of Copenhagen in 2016. His sacking was subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/sacking-of-top-geologist-hans-thybo-was-unjustified\/\">found to be wrongful in a court of arbitration<\/a>.\r\n<h3>Link between cat parasite and schizophrenia<\/h3>\r\nResearchers from Copenhagen University Hospital have found new evidence of a link between infection with the\u00a0protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii and schizophrenia. The brain-dwelling parasite that is estimated to be hosted by at least\u00a02 billion people\u00a0around the world, doesn't lead to symptoms in most people who become infected. Commonly carried by cats and present in their faeces \u2013 it has been linked to a huge host of\u00a0behaviour-altering effects. Links have already been documented between\u00a0T. gondii\u00a0infections and everything\u00a0from car crashes\u00a0to\u00a0entrepreneurial activity.\r\n\r\nIn the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mind-altering-cat-parasite-linked-to-schizophrenia-in-largest-study-yet\">new study, the researchers from Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark, analysed data<\/a> from over 80,000 individuals in what the team calls the\u00a0\"largest to date serological study\"\u00a0in this area. Individuals with the infection were almost <em>50 per cent<\/em> more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia disorders compared to those without an infection.\r\n<h3>UCPH report: Danish govt. 'streamlined' information over Iraq war participation<\/h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-81454\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/iraqwar-700x496.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The Danish government deliberately misinterpreted its own intelligence agencies\u2019 assessments before the war in Iraq. This is according to a long-awaited official report on Denmark\u2019s military engagements in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan published Tuesday.\r\n\r\nProfessor Anders Wivel and associate professor Rasmus Mariager of the University of Copenhagen led the investigation, and they cite a number of examples of so-called \u2018streamlining\u2019. \u201cThe Danish Defence Intelligence Service\u2019s (FE) assessment that there was no definitive evidence, but that Iraq was considered to possess weapons, was changed to the prime minister\u2019s [Anders Fogh Rasmussen, ed.] declaration that \u2018this is something we know\u2019,\u201d the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.dk\/20190205\/danish-government-streamlined-information-over-iraq-war-participation-report\"> researchers write<\/a>.\r\n<h3>'Unclonable' tag, the bane of counterfeiters?<\/h3>\r\nDiscovering that your new designer watch is a fake is costly and annoying. Counterfeit medical devices or drugs could have more serious consequences. Now, researchers have created an 'unclonable' tag that can never be replicated, even by the manufacturer.\r\n\r\nThis is the claim by three scientists, Riikka Arppe-Tabbara,\u00a0Mohammad Tabbara, and\u00a0Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen of the Nano-Science Center and Department of Chemistry,\u00a0University of Copenhagen, in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/02\/190206104605.htm\"> new journal article that is summarized in Science Daily here<\/a>.\r\n<h3>New dean at Social Sciences<\/h3>\r\nMikkel Vedby Rasmussen, who heads the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altinget.dk\/artikel\/her-er-den-nye-leder-for-kus-samfundsvidenskabelige-fakultet\">promoted to new dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences<\/a>. He replaces Dean Troels \u00d8stergaard S\u00f8rensen, who has headed the Faculty since 2006.\r\n<h3>Egyptology in Copenhagen<\/h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-81438\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dytvegbw0aacbc-700x556.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The Board at the University of Copenhagen recently had a lengthy<a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/ucph-wants-to-go-higher-on-the-rankings\/\"> discussion on the merits of marketing its rankings that is summarised here<\/a>. \u2018Egyptology\u2019 popped up as an example of a niche subject that does well among its international peers.\r\n\r\nThe annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ecc3104.wixsite.com\/ecc2019\">Egyptological Conference in Copenhagen<\/a> will take place on the\u00a07th-9th of May. 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