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New visiting researcher at iCourts - Aden Knaap

27 November - 8 December 2023

Fixing the EU VAT system with technology?

You are hereby cordially invited to the 1,5-day Conference on Fixing the EU VAT system with technology? on 16-17 November 2023, where we will discuss and consider the way(s) towards a contemporary, fraud-proof and…

New Postdoc at CECS - Melissa Hubahib Loja

Melissa Hubahib Loja is a postdoc in the EASTERNISATION project, which examines empirical data from post-World War II to the present on the infrastructure of international law being built by Russia and China.

New Postdoc at CECS - Sergii Masol

Sergii Masol is a new postdoc at CECS. He will be exploring the Russian approaches to international law within the framework of the EASTERNISATION research project “Power Shifts and Regionalisation of International Law”…

New visiting researcher at iCourts - Max Steuer

4 - 22 December 2023

Rikke Haugegaard publishes article in new military academic journal

CGC's Rikke Haugegaard has recently published an article in the new academic journal Inter Populum: The Journal of Irregular Warfare and Special Operations.

Working conditions in aviation: How aviation tackled the COVID-19 crisis

A major European research project has highlighted working conditions in aviation before and during the COVID-19-pandemic. In two new reports Steen E. Navrbjerg/FAOS analyses the development in Denmark.

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