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UCPH establishes investment company to boost entrepreneurship activities

The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has established a limited company with the main aim of investing in the University’s own spin-out companies. It is the first time that a Danish university establishes an investment…

Two of our researchers have received the LF Experiment grant from the Lundbeck Foundation

Postdoc Laura Mikél Mc Nair and Associate Professor Matthias Herth have received the grant given by the Lundbeck Foundation for audacious and innovative projects.

The School-Medicine-Theme Day – a new educational activity in primary schools

Can primary school children read and understand a patient information leaflet? Can they identify alternatives to medicine? Can they explain why some medications are formulated as tablets, while other medications only…

The University of Copenhagen is among the world’s best research environments in Sport Science

The Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and the Institute of Sports Medicine at Bispebjerg Hospital – both departments at the University of Copenhagen – are among the world’s best research environments in “Spor…

Ethical guidelines for FutureArcticLives

Learn about our ethical considerations that will guide the research conducted by FutureArcticLives.

Event at Science Week Greenland

FutureArcticLives Workshop on future analysis and Bayesian Belief Network modelling in natural resource management in Nuuk, Greenland, November 2021.

MA in African Studies: Application deadline for international students

Are you a non EU/EAA/Swiss applicant interested in studying the MA in African Studies at the University of Copenhagen?

What can curious infants teach us about how we learn?

With a DKK 6.2 million grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark, Cognitive Neuroscientist Katarina Begus will be leading a research project on how infants use their curiosity to learn. The project aims to provide…

Jun Ye awarded the Niels Bohr Medal of Honour 2021

Jun Ye is a world leading researcher in the fields of atomic physics, many body physics and fundamental tests using ultra-precise measurements.

Research project will crack the code behind green neighbourhood communities

With support from THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS, new research anchored at the Department of Anthropology will examine how to create green neighbouring communities in housing associations.

Royal Aacdemy's silver medal to Jonas Peters

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters awards its silver medal to Professor Jonas Peters, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, for his research in causality.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: We are living in an overheated world

The Norwegian social anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen has been proclaimed Honorary Doctor at UCPH. At the heart of his research is the 'overheated globalisation', which he explains here.

Prize for best thesis in labour market economics

CEBI PhD Camilla Skovbo Christensen is honoured in the Ministry of Employment for her thesis, ”Retirement Policies and Private Savings Behavior: Evidence from a Reform of the Old-Age Pension Scheme” with co-author…

Schools managed to prevent increased learning gaps during the corona crisis

School closures during the corona crisis had little impact on the reading proficiency of Danish pupils, even when you factor social background into the equation, new analyses conclude.

August Krogh Nobel Prize 100 + 1 years at Aarhus Katedralskole

On October 28 it was exactly 100 (+1) years ago since August Krogh was awarded to Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of “the Capillary Motor Regulation Mechanism”.

SODAS researchers win the Tietgen Prize 2021

Denmark's oldest research award, the Tietgen Prize, has just been presented to two researchers affiliated with SODAS: Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen and Laura Alessandretti.

Ulrik Wagner honoured with the EASM Distinguished Service Award 2021

Associate professor Ulrik Wagner was recently honoured with the Distinguished Service Award of the European Association for Sport Management (EASM).

SCIENCE Business Prize to Mogens Steffensen

Professor Mogens Steffensen has been awarded the SCIENCE Business Prize, which is awarded to those who make a special effort to make new knowledge available to companies and authorities.

CERTIZENS PhD Workshop for Students at the University of Ghana

OPEN PHD WORKSHOP ON CERTIFICATION, CITIZENSHIP AND STATE MAKING University of Ghana, Legon 17- 18 NOVEMBER 2021 Invitation to interested PhD/MPhil…

Birgitta Nordström receives the KIF Lifetime Achievement Award

The board of KIF has decided to give this special Lifetime Achievement Award to Associate Professor Emerita Birgitta Nordström for her significant scientific contributions and for being a valuable role model.

Online students engage more in lectures than physical attendees

New research demonstrates that online lecture attendees at the University of Copenhagen ask significantly more questions during large lectures than students who attend physically. This may be partly due to online…

Vocational education shapes students’ personality

Do young people become more conscientious by getting an education? Yes, if it is a vocational education, a new study reveals.

Welcome week rituals signal cultural expectations to new students

Activities during induction week signal cultural and social expectations to new students, according to a study of the welcome weeks at three UCPH programmes. “Between the lines” messages to the incoming students ought t…

Asbjørn's thesis on mathematical quantum mechanics was the best

The Danish Mathematical Society has awarded the Edlund-DMF Thesis Prize for 2020 to Asbjørn Bækgaard Lauritsen, a graduate of the University of Copenhagen. He receives the prize for the thesis “A Mathematical Formulatio…