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Is the future of whipped cream fat-free and made of bacteria and beer waste?

Bacteria-based whipped cream could be the future. Food researchers at the University of Copenhagen have developed a fat-free prototype of the much-beloved substance built using bacteria instead of milk fat – in both…

Is the future of whipped cream fat-free and made of bacteria and beer waste?

Bacteria-based whipped cream could be the future. Food researchers at the University of Copenhagen have developed a fat-free prototype of the much-beloved substance built using bacteria instead of milk fat – in both…

Stefan Voigt loves to teach – and is now being honoured for it

Stefan Voigt from the Department of Economics receives education award from the Danish Fincance Institute.

Viral lobbying: How the largest and hardest hit organisations made themselves heard during the pandemic

Four researchers have investigated how lobby organisations have influenced corona-related policies in Denmark and other European countries. They point to inequalities in the political influence organisations were able t…

Republican Party lost core supporters after the attack on Capitol

Danish research shows that the attack on the US Congress building in January 2021 caused even loyal party members to distance themselves from their party.

Tripartite agreements helped Denmark through the pandemic

A new analysis by Christian Lyhne Ibsen shows how a large number of tripartite agreements were instrumental in avoiding economic meltdown and mass layoffs during the Covid-19 pandemic

New article in Mind by Søren Overgaard

Søren Overgaard’s article “Backlighting and Occlusion” has been published in Mind.

Professor Finn Tarp appointed Chair of ZEF’s Advisory Board at the University of Bonn

On 21 September 2022, Finn Tarp delivered a lecture on foreign aid and economic development at the Center for Development Research (ZEF).

‘We need the money’

Research Fellow Noa Milman has contributed the article ‘‘We need the money’: how welfare anxiety justifies penal and social reforms in immigration debate’ to the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden and PhD student Nikolaj Schultz have published the article ‘The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene: A new crisis of legitimation and the brutalization of geo-social conflicts’ in…

CMS Researcher Cornelia Baciu publishes a Special Issue of Defence Studies

CMS Researcher Cornelia Baciu publishes a Special Issue of Defence Studies

CMS Research on Critical Maritime Infrastructure Contributes to New EU Action Plan

In a debate in the European Parliament on 5 October, a core reference point was a recent report that researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, Tobias Liebetrau has written for the Parliament in collaboration with..…

Dictatorships use sporting events as a smokescreen for political repression

A new study shows a systematic connection between major sporting events in autocracies and the persecution of political opponents.

New CMS podcast: Lex Ferenda - Conversations About Law and War

How does international law affect the conduct of military operations? What are the current challenges of international law? And what role will international law play in the future?

When do images rally support for political movements – or the opposite?

Focusing on the climate movement in Europe, a new international project at the Department of Sociology will analyse how visual content creates public support, but also opposition and polarisation.

European Parliament heeds the call from ocean infrastructure researchers

The sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines has brought much urgency to the protection of maritime infrastructure. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen outlines a plan that draws on University of Copenhagen research.

Johan Sæverud on French television explaining about the Danish social security eligibility age.

French president Emmanuel Macron proposed a gradual increase in the social security eligibility age from 62 to 65 in the Spring of 2022, but has faced severe opposition from both labor unions and his centrist alliance.…

Parents’ weight status plays a key role in whether or not their children become overweight and obese

In Denmark, more and more people suffer from overweight and obesity. A new study suggests that children with parents with obesity begin to develop overweight and obesity at earlier ages than children with parents with…

Webinar with Associate Professor Nick Bell, University of Nottingham, UK.

in the network for health and biosecurity under the Danish cattle research coordination committee, we were pleased to have held an open webinar, which can be seen on video.

Interview with Suchismita Goswami, PhD student at COPE

Meet COPE PhD student, Suchismita Goswami. She is currently working on the project ‘Disaster Risk Creation and Urban Resettlement Processes’, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Course on Carbon Capture and Storage

The Faculty of Law offers a 3-hour course on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for professionals.

Economists calculate welfare gains from the Lynetteholm project

How will it affect welfare if the housing stock is being expanded in Copenhagen's East Harbor? This has been examined by two researchers from the Department of Economics in a new report from the Ministry of Transport.

New CMS Report: Danish societal security – The resilient and secure society in a new era of security politics

Danish societal security – the intention of a robust and secure society – is being challenged in these years, where increased competition between great powers and Russia's invasion of Ukraine have amplified the external…

New Head of the Department of Economics: We need more female colleagues

Henrik Hansen will take up the position as the new Head of the Department of Economics 1 March 2023. One of the priorities on his to-do list is a more equal gender distribution in a male-dominated field.