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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.

Your phone gives your mind what it likes the most: endless possibilities for novelty

It is not vast amounts of online information that makes it difficult for you to stay focused. It is rather the easily accessible possibilities for novelty and action built into digital technology that your mind cannot…

Danish healthcare interpretation fee rules negatively affect immigrants’ access to healthcare

A new study published in Health Policy by researchers at CEPRI and the Department of Public Health examines how immigrants experience consequences of the fee on healthcare interpretation that was introduced in Danish la…

Microalgae could become your climate-friendly favorite dish

Ph.D. student at UCPH FOOD, Malene Fog Lihme Olsen, is working on the research project MASSPROVIT to refine the microalgae "Nannochloropsis oceanica". This includes creating a vast library of how different mutants of th…

Strong AI skills significantly raise salaries

A new study maps the value of 962 specific skills and shows that knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) is particularly popular today. On average, AI skills increase salaries by 21 per cent.

Strong AI skills significantly raise salaries

Nyt studie kortlægger værdien af 962 konkrete færdigheder og viser, at særligt viden om kunstig intelligens (AI) i dag står i høj kurs. I gennemsnit øger AI-kompetencer aflønningen med 21 procent.