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A year and a half in Luxembourg shaped Niels Johannesen's career

Niels Johannesen is a professor of economics and works partly at the Department of Economics at UCPH and partly at Oxford University, where he is director of the Centre for Business Taxation. "I have always thought that…

New EU Grant on Green Hydrogen Transport Transition in the North Sea Region

CLIMA´s project is funded by Interreg Europe. The project aims to enhance and accelerate hydrogen development, especially in the transport sector, across the North Sea Region.

Researchers invent one hundred percent biodegradable "barley plastic"

A biofriendly new material made from barley starch blended with fibre from sugarbeet waste sees the light of day at the University of Copenhagen – a strong material that turns into compost should it end up in nature. In…

Researchers invent one hundred percent biodegradable "barley plastic"

A biofriendly new material made from barley starch blended with fibre from sugarbeet waste sees the light of day at the University of Copenhagen – a strong material that turns into compost should it end up in nature. In…

The ICARUS Project: How Humans Deal with Heat

The ICARUS project will study the interactions between physiology, psychology, and culture to improve the mitigation of health threats associated with global warming.

CMS Researcher publishes new article: "Tragic reflection, political wisdom, and the future of algorithmic war"

Neil Renic, Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, has published a new article, “Tragic reflection, political wisdom, and the future of algorithmic war”, in the Australian Journal of International Affairs.

Work automation is being put under the microscope

Who benefits when our labour is replaced by machines or artificial intelligence? Nicolai Waldstrøm will explore this. He is backed by a postdoc grant from the Carlsberg Foundation.

Archaeologists to contribute to major new research project on ancient DNA

Professor Eske Willerslev has been awarded a grant of up to DKK 585 million by Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Wellcome Trust to study ancient environmental DNA. Researchers from the Near Eastern Archaeology section wil…

Call for Papers on Early Modern privacy for The Renaissance Society of America Conference 2025

Gezicht op huizen in Delft, bekend als 'Het straatje' Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) The Renaissance Society of America Conference 2025 will be held in Boston 20-22 March. Background Privacy is hardly a hallmark of…

Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen presented at UCPH Spring Festival

On May 31st Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen presented on 'the festival feeling' at UCPH Spring Festival

CGC researcher, Anja Simonsen, launches her new book in Hargaisa, Somaliland

Recently, CGC researcher, Anja Simonsen, launched her new book at the Rako research seminar series in collaboration with the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Hargaisa, Somaliland.

CGC Researchers at the People's Meeting 2024

Join us for interesting debates and presentations at this year's People's Meeting (Folkemøde), where CGC researchers will address important topics such as cocaine use, police powers, illegal trade, and e-waste.

Ingi Poulsen

Ingi is an Icelandic attorney with over 15 years of experience in litigation, focusing on environmental law and human rights law.

A Wake-up Call for a European Security Provider?

Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, defence and security have moved up the political agenda in the European Union (EU).

New CMS Report: A Wake-up Call for a European Security Provider?

Russia's war against Ukraine has shed new light on the EU's security and defence policy and European security architecture.

New parenting programme to help children in families with complex psychosocial problems

With a grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, researchers from the Department of Psychology will test a new intervention in families with multiple psychological and social challenges.

Improved counselling for young people to dispel the myth that opioids are harmless

A wide range of measures are needed to reduce the use of illegal opioids and benzodiazepines among young people. This is the conlcusion of the Criminological Observatory at UCPH in a new report.

Maybe We Should Start Paying the Hours Properly

Trine Øland from Section for Education has published the article ‘“Maybe We Should Start Paying the Hours Properly”.

Popular chatbot is a politically left-leaning EU supporter

LlamaChat, a popular AI chatbot alternative to ChatGPT, leans left and holds pro-European views. This is demonstrated by a University of Copenhagen study in which researchers tested the model on EU policy issues.…

Driving the EU working conditions directive: social partner reactivity and the limits to commission entrepreneurship

In a new article in Comparative European Politics, Mikkel Mailand analyses how the EU directive on working conditions came about and what role the social partners played.

Making energy bars from rapeseed side streams

Sensory scientists from Department of Food Science have recently tested a variety of energy bars made with rapeseed press cake, potentially marking the beginning of using the plentiful but inedible plant as a…

Avocados are 'bad' and vegans are ridiculous: How we justify eating too much meat

Those of us who find it difficult to eat less meat for the sake of climate tend to apologize or justify ourselves in social contexts. And… shaming vegans isn’t off limits. This, according to a new University of…

Greenhouses cover more and more of Earth’s surface

Greenhouse cultivation is booming globally, especially in the Global South – and across one country in particular. This is revealed in a new study by researchers at the University of Copenhagen that deploys detailed…

New report published on Danish nature

New report from Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate shows concrete ways to ensure Denmark's biodiversity by creating large, interconnected natural areas.