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Five social science projects to investigate green transition

Five projects in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science receive a total of DKK 15.8 million from Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) from the programme supporting independent green research.

Food waste prevention in Europe can generate major footprint savings

New calculations show that the European countries have great potential for reducing the demand for global food resources and the associated GHG footprint. Researchers have estimated the climate footprint savings that ma…

Food waste prevention in Europe can generate major footprint savings

New calculations show that the European countries have great potential for reducing the demand for global food resources and the associated GHG footprint. Researchers have estimated the climate footprint savings that ma…

We can save lives and millions with less nitrate in drinking water

Denmark could save lives and more than $300 million a year by reducing the amount of nitrate in its drinking water. This, according to calculations by researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and…

Black Americans from well-educated families continue to face educational barriers

While racial disparities in education have narrowed in the US, African American individuals from well-educated backgrounds still find it especially difficult to attain the same high level of education as their parents.

Employment programmes have less effect than assumed

A group of experts has analysed Denmark's employment efforts, which cost DKK 11 billion annually. The group assesses that the programme has had significantly less effect on employment than one would expect based on the…

Book Symposium: Pentecostalism and Politics

Director and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach contributes to Contending Modernities’ book symposium (Symposium on Pastoral Power Clerical State Archives | Contending Modernities) on Ebenezer Obadare’s book Pastoral…

First GOLD LEAF Certificate at ISIM

Reducing our climate footprint Laboratories play a key role in research and education in areas such as medicine, biology and chemistry, and they are indispensable for an academic institution such as the University of…

Major EU grant will make metal alloys the catalysts of the future

New international research collaboration to trailblaze the next generation of catalysts – a prerequisite for the renewable chemicals and fuels of the future. The researchers hope to accomplish this with a new data-drive…

Dietary transition requires work: exploring the practice-transition processes of young Danish meat reducers

The research article titled "Dietary transition requires work: exploring the practice-transition processes of young Danish meat reducers" authored by Morten Wendler and Bente Halkier, examines the social and practical…

New paper on flood impacts on urban mobility

GIS-based network models are used to analyse how daily mobility may be disrupted or constrained due to the flooding of road infrastructure

New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Virginia Passalacqua

Virginia Passalacqua will be visiting MOBILE in November 2023.

Jaya Ramji-Nogales and Nikolas Feith Tan join MOBILE

Jaya Ramji-Nogales and Nikolas Feith Tan join MOBILE as Permanent Visiting Professors

Discovery of a unique fungal enzyme

Researchers identified enzymes from very specific fungi that could be an important step toward the large-scale production of bioethanol.

New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Stein Arne Brekke

Stein Arne will be visiting MOBILE from 22 October to 8 December 2023.

Presentation at the IFA Congress 2023 in Cancún by Associate Professor Marta Papis-Almansa

On 22-26 October 2023 Associate Professor Marta Papis-Almansa, took part in the Global Congress of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) in Cancún, Mexico.

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The US as an actor in arctic shipping

New book from Nordicom

New book from Nordicom: Audiovisual Content for Children and Adolescents in Scandinavia: Production, Distribution, and Reception in a Multiplatform Era.

New special issue of Diplomatica spawned by CEMES-hosted workshops

The former CEMES hosted the workshops series Scandinavian Internationalist Diplomacy, 1920s-1970s. A fruit of these workshops has now come out.

New study: Pig welfare outweighs climate concerns for consumers

Consumers would rather pay more for higher-welfare pork than for pork with a reduced climate footprint. Politicians and the pork industry can learn from the result, according to the researchers behind the University of…

New study: Pig welfare outweighs climate concerns for consumers

Consumers would rather pay more for higher-welfare pork than for pork with a reduced climate footprint. Politicians and the pork industry can learn from the result, according to the researchers behind the University of…

Nuno Grancho gave a conference paper at Harvard, MIT and Brown Universities

Nuno Grancho presented his research at the Conference of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) that took place at Harvard, MIT and Brown Universities, USA.

Tackling legal and regulatory barriers to health and life science innovations

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a 5-year grant of up to DKK 50 million to the University of Copenhagen for the International Collaborative Bioscience Innovation & Law (Inter-CeBIL) Programme.

Wokewashing undermines the credibility of CEO sociopolitical communications

CEOs are increasingly participating in sociopolitical debates. However, their efforts can be ineffective, or even backfire, if consumers view the statements as unauthentic, according to a new international study.