{"id":98396,"date":"2019-12-19T08:39:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T07:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/og-de-troede-ikke-de-studerende-kunne-goere-oproer\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T10:44:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T09:44:03","slug":"and-they-didnt-think-the-students-could-start-a-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/and-they-didnt-think-the-students-could-start-a-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"And they didn\u2019t think the students could start a rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was as if ‘the adults’ did not really believe in young people. Leader of the Alternative Party Uffe Elb\u00e6k called for a youth rebellion on the Danish TV2 News. In a column on the news site Politiken, one of its journalists wrote that young people find it difficult to find what they should revolt against, and that they \u00bbdon\u2019t hit back at society, but at themselves when things fail.\u00ab<\/p>\n

There was a head of studies at the psychology department at the University of Copenhagen, Torben Bechmann Jensen, that tried to explain it all in another media, Jyllands-Posten: \u00bbThere is plenty of movement among young people in the form of minor, individual rebellions,\u00ab he said. But he found it hard to see how young people should coalesce into a common opposition that could lay the foundation for a large scale youth rebellion.<\/p>\n

This was three years ago, it was in the autumn of 2016.<\/p>\n

A month after the article in Jyllands-Posten had been published, a green student association with a focus on climate and health called IMCC Earth was founded at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO:<\/strong> Kristiana Nikolova campaigned against plastic cups at the health faculty’s coffee shop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Others also moved forward with smaller scale green initiatives. In the spring of 2017, a group of students started the think tank Frej, an independent food-policy think tank that hoped to reduce the gap between agriculture, the environment, politicians and consumers. In the autumn of 2017, the association Green Forum turned up on the Food and Nutrition study programme. In the beginning of 2018, three biology students at the University of Copenhagen founded the group Os Om Havet which organises events where volunteers and families pick up rubbish from the seabed.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIf you can\u2019t get three biology students who have studied plastic to go out and pick up trash on a dive, then you can\u2019t expect others to do it,\u00ab one of them said.<\/p>\n

The media meet the green students<\/h3>\n

And in the spring of 2018, something big happened.<\/p>\n

A professor at the University of Copenhagen, Jens Friis Lund, met up with students repeatedly who would like to engage with climate and sustainability. He joined them up, and in the course of the summer the Green Student Movement evolved. Its members wrote letters in the newspapers, and at the opening of the Danish Parliament in the Autumn of 2018, they camped for 48 hours in front of the Danish parliament Christiansborg. Then people knew who they were, and the media threw themselves at them. One of the movement’s spokespeople, student at the University of Copenhagen Esther Michelsen Kjeldahl, was profiled in the newspaper Information and in Politiken, and the movement sent letters, a large number of letters, to the former Minister of Climate Lars Christian Lilleholt, and the digital news site Zetland published 20 of them.<\/p>\n

At the same time, several green associations were founded at the University of Copenhagen. Psychology and political science students had each separately founded smaller green associations, but merged into an association called SIMA for the whole of the Faculty of Social Sciences. At the Faculty of Law the green association Casus Clima was founded.<\/p>\n

Then another big new thing happened.<\/p>\n

In Sweden, a young woman had been on strike for the climate for weeks, and in November 2018, Danish young people in several Danish cities joined in, inspired by Greta Thunberg. Fridays For Future had come to Denmark.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO:<\/strong> Sarah Helleb\u00e6k helped start the green student movement: \u00bbMy indignation is so real\u00ab<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In December, in connection with the COP24 in Poland, climate activists from the University of Copenhagen organised a bike demonstration called KlimaAlarm to get politicians\u2019 attention, while the Green Student Movement set up a human chain around the Danish parliament in Christiansborg. Before the year was out, people from the international civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion were demonstrating in Denmark too.
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Demands to universities<\/h3>\n

In January 2019, the Green Student Movement issued a series of demands on universities: Stop research into the extraction of oil and gas, put the climate question on the syllabus and curriculum, and avoid, as far as possible, any flying, they said. And when there were strikes in more than 1,000 cities and 90 countries in March, students at the University of Copenhagen also took part. At the Social Science campus, SIMA had organised a presentation which included former chairman of the Danish Council for Climate, Peter Birch S\u00f8rensen, and several hundred people took part in the strike at the Faculty of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of 2019, the Student Council at the University of Copenhagen also threw itself into the green struggle.<\/p>\n

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The students\u2019 five demands<\/p>\n

1. All students are to have teaching in climate and sustainability
\n2. Campus to be CO2-neutral in 2015
\n3. Research to be oriented towards the future with the Sustainable Development Goals as a guideline
\n4. Travelling policy to be introduced
\n5. Closure of the Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00bbClimate had become an agenda that we could not avoid,\u00ab says Mike Gudbergsen, chairman of the Student Council. \u00bbIt took us some time, because it is not a typical student political subject, but our responsibility as an organisation is what is important for students’ lives. And so we couldn\u2019t avoid it.\u00ab<\/p>\n

The Student Council co-ordinated a collaboration between the green associations at the faculties and the Green Student Movement, according to Mike Gudbergsen. A collaboration that resulted in five joint demands that were issued to management, a petition, and a demonstration in front of the University of Copenhagen in September, when they handed over 1,700 signatures and their demands to Prorector Bente Stallknecht.<\/p>\n

Now ‘the grown-ups’ are listening<\/h3>\n

In September, the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs annual study-start survey was released. In this, 30 per cent of students said that it was crucial for them that their future workplace had a green and climate-friendly profile. Fewer students pointed to it being crucial to them that the company paid a high salary (21 per cent), and that it is prestigious to work in it (10 per cent).<\/p>\n

Mike Gudbergsen from the Student Council reckons that the University of Copenhagen should quickly prioritise the green transition if it is to attract the students of the future.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO:<\/strong> Caroline Reuter is in Extinction Rebellion: \u00bbI feel that civil disobedience is our last option\u00ab<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbI believe that a focus on climate and sustainability will have a strong impact on the next generation of university students\u2019 choice of education,\u00ab he says. \u00bbIt is something that is on the mind of students at university right now, but it is just as much on the mind, maybe to an even greater extent, of secondary and primary school students.\u00ab<\/p>\n

He says that he sees that the University of Copenhagen management wants to be progressive and become a green university. But it is the students that have to come up with the ideas, because management doesn\u2019t always have them. That’s why it’s good, according to Mike Gudbergsen, that management listens to students:<\/p>\n

\u00bbLater today, I will go with representatives from other green associations to a meeting with Prorector Bente Stallknecht on how we can help each other to push UCPH in a greener direction.\u00ab
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"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Standfirst","subject":"Rebellion","text":"In the course of two years, students moved from being virtually invisible in the climate debate to capturing the agenda and making demands on both university management and the decision makers in the Danish parliament.","use_post_excerpt":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":true,"contributors":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>It was as if ‘the adults’ did not really believe in young people. Leader of the Alternative Party Uffe Elb\u00e6k called for a youth rebellion on the Danish TV2 News. In a column on the news site Politiken, one of its journalists wrote that young people find it difficult to find what they should revolt against, and that they \u00bbdon\u2019t hit back at society, but at themselves when things fail.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>There was a head of studies at the psychology department at the University of Copenhagen, Torben Bechmann Jensen, that tried to explain it all in another media, Jyllands-Posten: \u00bbThere is plenty of movement among young people in the form of minor, individual rebellions,\u00ab he said. But he found it hard to see how young people should coalesce into a common opposition that could lay the foundation for a large scale youth rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>This was three years ago, it was in the autumn of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>A month after the article in Jyllands-Posten had been published, a green student association with a focus on climate and health called IMCC Earth was founded at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/kristiana-nikolova-campaigned-against-plastic-cups-at-the-health-facultys-coffee-shop\/\">Kristiana Nikolova campaigned against plastic cups at the health faculty’s coffee shop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Others also moved forward with smaller scale green initiatives. In the spring of 2017, a group of students started the think tank Frej, an independent food-policy think tank that hoped to reduce the gap between agriculture, the environment, politicians and consumers. In the autumn of 2017, the association Green Forum turned up on the Food and Nutrition study programme. In the beginning of 2018, three biology students at the University of Copenhagen founded the group Os Om Havet which organises events where volunteers and families pick up rubbish from the seabed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIf you can\u2019t get three biology students who have studied plastic to go out and pick up trash on a dive, then you can\u2019t expect others to do it,\u00ab one of them said.<\/p>\n<h3>The media meet the green students<\/h3>\n<p>And in the spring of 2018, something big happened.<\/p>\n<p>A professor at the University of Copenhagen, Jens Friis Lund, met up with students repeatedly who would like to engage with climate and sustainability. He joined them up, and in the course of the summer the Green Student Movement evolved. Its members wrote letters in the newspapers, and at the opening of the Danish Parliament in the Autumn of 2018, they camped for 48 hours in front of the Danish parliament Christiansborg. Then people knew who they were, and the media threw themselves at them. One of the movement’s spokespeople, student at the University of Copenhagen Esther Michelsen Kjeldahl, was profiled in the newspaper Information and in Politiken, and the movement sent letters, a large number of letters, to the former Minister of Climate Lars Christian Lilleholt, and the digital news site Zetland published 20 of them.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, several green associations were founded at the University of Copenhagen. Psychology and political science students had each separately founded smaller green associations, but merged into an association called SIMA for the whole of the Faculty of Social Sciences. At the Faculty of Law the green association Casus Clima was founded.<\/p>\n<p>Then another big new thing happened.<\/p>\n<p>In Sweden, a young woman had been on strike for the climate for weeks, and in November 2018, Danish young people in several Danish cities joined in, inspired by Greta Thunberg. Fridays For Future had come to Denmark.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/sarah-hellebaek-var-med-til-at-starte-den-groenne-studenterbevaegelse-min-indignation-er-saa-dybfoelt\/\">Sarah Helleb\u00e6k helped start the green student movement: \u00bbMy indignation is so real\u00ab<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In December, in connection with the COP24 in Poland, climate activists from the University of Copenhagen organised a bike demonstration called KlimaAlarm to get politicians\u2019 attention, while the Green Student Movement set up a human chain around the Danish parliament in Christiansborg. Before the year was out, people from the international civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion were demonstrating in Denmark too.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":98144,"id":98144,"title":"Gr\u00f8nt opr\u00f8r grafik","filename":"designudennavn59.png","filesize":875353,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/designudennavn59.png","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/og-de-troede-ikke-de-studerende-kunne-goere-oproer\/design-uden-navn-59\/","alt":"","author":"71","description":"","caption":"","name":"design-uden-navn-59","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":98140,"date":"2019-12-09 13:30:07","modified":"2019-12-09 13:31:02","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":3000,"height":2000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/designudennavn59-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/designudennavn59-480x320.png","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/designudennavn59-768x512.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/designudennavn59-1280x853.png","large-width":1280,"large-height":853,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/designudennavn59.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/designudennavn59.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/designudennavn59-290x193.png","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":193,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/designudennavn59-290x180.png","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/designudennavn59-700x467.png","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/designudennavn59-990x660.png","extended-width":990,"extended-height":660}},"style":"full","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"When the student movement turned green","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"From the end of 2016 to the autumn of 2019 a number of green associations saw the light of day at the University of Copenhagen. Larger green movements took off in Denmark. The associations at the top are at the university, the lower ones are national movements."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h3>Demands to universities<\/h3>\n<p>In January 2019, the Green Student Movement issued a series of demands on universities: Stop research into the extraction of oil and gas, put the climate question on the syllabus and curriculum, and avoid, as far as possible, any flying, they said. And when there were strikes in more than 1,000 cities and 90 countries in March, students at the University of Copenhagen also took part. At the Social Science campus, SIMA had organised a presentation which included former chairman of the Danish Council for Climate, Peter Birch S\u00f8rensen, and several hundred people took part in the strike at the Faculty of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of 2019, the Student Council at the University of Copenhagen also threw itself into the green struggle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">The students\u2019 five demands<\/p>\n<p>1. All students are to have teaching in climate and sustainability<br \/>\n2. Campus to be CO2-neutral in 2015<br \/>\n3. Research to be oriented towards the future with the Sustainable Development Goals as a guideline<br \/>\n4. Travelling policy to be introduced<br \/>\n5. Closure of the Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00bbClimate had become an agenda that we could not avoid,\u00ab says Mike Gudbergsen, chairman of the Student Council. \u00bbIt took us some time, because it is not a typical student political subject, but our responsibility as an organisation is what is important for students’ lives. And so we couldn\u2019t avoid it.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>The Student Council co-ordinated a collaboration between the green associations at the faculties and the Green Student Movement, according to Mike Gudbergsen. A collaboration that resulted in five joint demands that were issued to management, a petition, and a demonstration in front of the University of Copenhagen in September, when they handed over 1,700 signatures and their demands to Prorector Bente Stallknecht.<\/p>\n<h3>Now ‘the grown-ups’ are listening<\/h3>\n<p>In September, the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs annual study-start survey was released. In this, 30 per cent of students said that it was crucial for them that their future workplace had a green and climate-friendly profile. Fewer students pointed to it being crucial to them that the company paid a high salary (21 per cent), and that it is prestigious to work in it (10 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>Mike Gudbergsen from the Student Council reckons that the University of Copenhagen should quickly prioritise the green transition if it is to attract the students of the future.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/caroline-reuter-is-in-extinction-rebellion-i-feel-that-civil-disobedience-is-our-last-option\/\">Caroline Reuter is in Extinction Rebellion: \u00bbI feel that civil disobedience is our last option\u00ab<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI believe that a focus on climate and sustainability will have a strong impact on the next generation of university students\u2019 choice of education,\u00ab he says. \u00bbIt is something that is on the mind of students at university right now, but it is just as much on the mind, maybe to an even greater extent, of secondary and primary school students.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>He says that he sees that the University of Copenhagen management wants to be progressive and become a green university. But it is the students that have to come up with the ideas, because management doesn\u2019t always have them. That’s why it’s good, according to Mike Gudbergsen, that management listens to students:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbLater today, I will go with representatives from other green associations to a meeting with Prorector Bente Stallknecht on how we can help each other to push UCPH in a greener direction.\u00ab<\/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":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":2177,"name":"Academic life","slug":"academic-life","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2177,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":67,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":42,"name":"Education","slug":"education","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":661,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":48,"name":"Politics","slug":"politics","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":48,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1035,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":2234,"name":"Den Gr\u00f8nne Studenterbev\u00e6gelse","slug":"den-groenne-studenterbevaegelse-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2234,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2773,"name":"extinction rebellion","slug":"extinction-rebellion-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2773,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2774,"name":"fridays for future","slug":"fridays-for-future-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2774,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2775,"name":"green forum","slug":"green-forum-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2775,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2776,"name":"greta thunberg","slug":"greta-thunberg-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2776,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2777,"name":"IMCC Earth","slug":"imcc-earth-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2777,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":14,"name":"Portrait Article","slug":"portrait_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":14,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":797,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/designudennavn60.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98533,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98396\/revisions\/98533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}