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Golovchenko was interviewed by P1

Yevgeniy Golovchenko appeared on Danish Radio (P1) to talk about Ukrainian propaganda efforts to demoralize Russian soldiers through social media.

New visitor at iCourts - Francesca Leucci

1 February - 1 April 2023

New visitor at iCourts - Theresa Squatrito

15 January to 15 March 2023

Business and welfare policies

Mikkel Mailand analyzes the roles and preferences of Danish companies and employers' organizations in relation to four 'welfare policy' areas - unemployment, (further) education, pensions and family-working life.

The Case of Customary Rules-of- the-Road for Governing the Orbital Highways of Earth

Have you considered Customary International Law as a vessel for global accord? Can the oldest source of international law help us avoid pending catastrophe with satellite collisions leading to environmental degradation…

Featuring CERTIZENS at Copenhagen University

Read about the public seminar at the Centre of African Studies featuring the research of CERTIZENS Dr Kojo Opoku Aidoo, and Dr Godfrey Asiimwe

Guest PhD researcher, Nai Kalema, links up with CERTIZENS in Copenhagen

Read Nai Kalema’s responses to some key questions about herself, her doctoral research focus, and how she sees her research relating specifically to CERTIZENS.

New visitor at CeBIL - Jorge L Contreras

13 - 20 March 2023

Newly appointed professor: Data science can save food research decades

We can potentially save decades of food research by using data science to investigate where we have the greatest chance of finding the most significant results. It is a latent game changer when we want to convince…

Christoffer Ousager

Christoffer’s project report named: "‘The role of International Law in accommodating Climate Action in the European Union’ is supervised by Associate Prof. Beatriz Martinez Romera. The report will elucidate the legal…

Golovchenko was live in P1 Morgen

Yevgeniy went live on P1 Morgen (Danish Radio) to talk about the role of information control in the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Professor Helle Porsdam i Videnskabsår22 podcast (In Danish)

Professor Helle Porsdam taler i Videnskabsår22 podcast om, hvordan vi i Danmark ikke blot har ret til at blive behandlet værdigt og leve uden tortur, slaveri og diskrimination, men også til at få adgang til videnska…

Rwandan tree carbon stock mapped from above

Breakthrough in climate change mitigation: Researchers at University of Copenhagen have developed accurate nation-wide mapping of the carbon content of trees based on aerial images.

Rwandan tree carbon stock mapped from above

Breakthrough in climate change mitigation: Researchers at University of Copenhagen have developed accurate nation-wide mapping of the carbon content of trees based on aerial images.

Umami is key to make plant-based Christmas dinner taste like Christmas

How do you combine plant-based foods to bring out the flavours of Christmas? A food engineer and ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen has experimented in Gastro Science Lab. Boosting of umami taste is key.

Human empathy makes us better at understanding animal sounds

Those who do well on human empathy tests are also measurably better at decoding the emotional sounds of animals, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen. Other aspects, such as age and work related to…

Policies' implications on labor supply and inequality within families

Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen has been awarded The Semper Ardens Accelerate grant from The Carlsberg Foundation

Rohlfing and Wind: EU should use other democracy indices

New research article from CEP researchers finds that the Commission should stop using Freedom House. Comparing three democracy indices Rohlfing and Wind support the index critique raised by the Parliament.

Golovchenko in Politiken

Yevgeniy Golovchenko was featured in a Danish news article "Putin afviser at mangle soldater, men propagandavideoer signalerer det modsatte" by Politiken.

Climatising Security Policy

How have the political discourses about climate change influenced security policies? Climate change sets a moving agenda for international and national security actors, providing them both with manifold trials but also…

New CMS Report: Climatising Security Policy

How have the political discourses about climate change influenced security policies? New CMS report investigates the emerging international landscape on ‘climatising’ security policies that Denmark must navigate.

New publication from CarGo members

As part of the interdisciplinary collaboration within the CArGo network, Frank Sejersen, Kristian Søby Kristensen and our Johanna Bürkert contributed to the 10th volume on Current Developments in Arctic Law, published b…

Philosopher: Mindfulness rests on dubious philosophical foundations

Mindfulness is one of the most widespread forms of therapy for people suffering from stress, and many report that they benefit greatly from it. However, the philosophical assumptions on which mindfulness is based are…

An ode to people who work in labs

With a short film, Postdoc Thomas Hughes has delivered an atypical anthropological product at the outskirts of academia – even though the film is celebrating science.