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New Encyclopedia Entry Highlights Insights from RUL4CLI Research in Tanzania

The entry provides an overview of how global urbanization is reshaping landscapes and challenges traditional distinctions between “rural” and “urban.”

New visiting researcher - Nina Reiners

Visiting from 7 to 11 September 2026.

Scientists have designed a clay that can prevent fruits and vegetables from rotting too quickly

The gas ethylene causes fruit and vegetables to ripen faster and is responsible for millions of tons of food being lost annually during transport and storage. Now researchers from the University of Copenhagen, among…

Competition from Chinese imports is causing CO₂ emissions to rise globally

Danish companies emit less CO₂ when they relocate certain tasks abroad. At the same time, emissions rise correspondingly in those countries. However, global emissions increase when companies are under pressure from chea…

Researchers behind new spinout: Only a fraction of the chemicals in drinking water are tested for

Much of our drinking water contains hundreds of chemicals, but today we test for only a fraction of them. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have now launched a company offering an exceptionally broad…

First graduates from new psychology programme

A new master’s programme at the University of Copenhagen, run in collaboration with Region Zealand, has now produced its first graduates. This marks the culmination of a targeted effort to provide a more…

Trading Beyond Understanding: Machine Learning, Risk, and Markets

Machine learning is fundamentally transforming financial markets. Where trading strategies were once crafted by human experts – executed manually or through pre-coded rules – firms now build models that generate the…

AI gigafactories require political decisions – not just technological investments

The EU plans to build massive AI gigafactories, and Denmark has thrown its hat into the ring. But according to a new research brief from CAISA – the National Centre for AI in Society – there is a lack of broad political…

New scale measures mental health promoting behaviour

With the help of a nine-item scale, researchers from the University of Copenhagen are now able to measure mental health promoting behaviour and gain insight into how it affects our well-being.

Asta Egede Andreasen

Asta is a law student pursuing her MSc in Law at the University of Copenhagen. She has a particular interest in EU energy and climate change law and will be writing her master’s thesis in this field in the autumn of…

Katja Jane Elizabeth Juthans

Katja will be writing her master's thesis at CLIMA this fall under the title "Mapping the Operationalization of Environmental Justice Principles in Arctic Ocean Climate Law and Governance."

Lorena Arismendi

Lorena Arismendi is a Peruvian Environmental Engineering student, specializing in Sustainability Management, with additional training in environmental assessment and control, and forestry and wildlife legislation.

Danish intelligence test may underestimate the abilities of bilingual young people

Even highly educated young people who have grown up and been educated in Denmark risk being underestimated when their IQ is tested. New research points to hidden cultural bias in one of the most widely used intelligence…

Law professors prefer AI

Researchers at Stanford University has recently released an interesting paper. In an experiment Law professors rated answers to legal questions written by AI and other law professors respectively. In the experiment, the…

Children improve their fraction skills by playing basketball in class

Combining fractions with basketball improves pupils’ mathematical skills in primary school, a new study from the University of Copenhagen concludes. The researcher behind it calls for the approach to be integrated into…

Children improve their fraction skills by playing basketball in class

Combining fractions with basketball improves pupils’ mathematical skills in primary school, a new study from the University of Copenhagen concludes. The researcher behind it calls for the approach to be integrated into…

More status quo than change. Employer associations’ preferences in Dutch and Danish welfare

In both Denmark and the Netherlands, employer associations often support the status quo in welfare policy areas such as pensions, employment, education and family-work life.

AfD Dominated TikTok in the German Election

The right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) dominated TikTok during the German federal election in 2025. Its visibility was primarily driven by regular users – not by the party itself.

Including non-standard workers in Danish social dialogue

A new European research project (IntegrateDialogue) will explore how non-standard workers can be better included in social dialogue and representation.

N. Meltem Daysal will give keynote talk at the 2026 Meeting of the Society of Economics of the Household (SEHO)

The Lecture is entitled The Economics of Mental Health.

Breaking the Barriers: Gender, Culture and Diversity in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Associate Professor Emerita Hilda Rømer Christensen from the Department of Sociology has together with other authors edited a new volume published by De Gruyter.

New article by Johannes Riber in the Norwegian Naval Journal

Johannes Riber, lieutenant commander and postdoc/researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, has published the article "Er den fleksible flåde stadig en succes for Danmark?" (Is the flexible fleet still a success for…

Call for Abstracts: XIX Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy and Sustainability

The Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance (CLIMA) is organizing the XIX edition of the Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Climate, Energy and Sustainability.

New PhD course on (Dis)ordering Worlds: Histories of (anti)modernity & disorder

We are thrilled to be offering a PhD course in Global Humanities this year. PhD Students in Denmark and abroad are invited to participate in a four-day course which connects geopolitical ordering attempts over the last…