News about Education

Outcome of learning in the lab reaches far beyond subject matter 

Students can learn a plethora of skills in the lab, that are also useful once the lab coat is off. Educators need to be aware of the potential.

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.

Sebastian Boje Christensen

Cand. scient. (Molecular Biomedicine), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Open Access week 2022

This week, October 24 -28 2022, is 'Danish Open Access Week 2022'. The OA Network provides 10 webinars about Open Access - two each day - all cover Open Access in different ways. The webinars are free, and everybody…

Springtime School 2023: Skin homeostasis and inflammation

Springtime School 24-26 April 2023 LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center, University of Copenhagen, invites young and talented researchers from across the world to join an intense three-day learning experience…

Phd Introduction to Teaching and Supervision January 2023

PhD Introduction to teaching and supervision January 2023 Copenhagen Graduate School of Social Sciences in collaboration with Educational Advisors of Social Science is offering a three-days course in university teaching…

New publication in the Journal of Chemical Education

Building on the systematic review we published earlier in July, a new paper on faculty perspectives has been published in the Journal of Chemical Education. In this study, we looked into how laboratory instructors…

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School education project on plant biology

New book on Malaria Immunology – including cutting-edge methods and protocols

During the last few years, Professor Lars Hviid and Professor Anja Ramstedt Jensen from Centre for Medical Parasitology at the Department of Immunology and Microbiology, UCPH, have spent many, many hours editing this…

Deleted data and plagiarism: High school students have poor understanding of rules

High school students lack understanding of academic norms, study shows. We need to rethink our idea of the cheating student, says researcher.

Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen will give talk as part of the AI seminar series

Associate professor at SODAS Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen will, as part of the AI seminar series, give a lecture on big data for the prediction of student success

This year’s summer language courses in Danish/German/French were extremely popular!

In August, CIP organised summer language courses in both Danish for international students and German and French for Danish students going on exchange. Both Danish and international students have been highly satisfied…

VetSchool – positive assessment at the EAEVE revisitation

On Wednesday afternoon (21 September ), Antti Sukura and Pierre Lekeux from the EAEVE presented the conclusions from their two-days re-accreditation visit to the VetSchool.

Make your supervision even more efficient and fruitful - extended deadline 28/10

Voluntary course for experienced PhD supervisors Are you a busy PhD supervisor looking for strategies on how to make your supervision even more efficient and fruitful? And would you like to get inspiration from other…

Media School – available seats

Learn how research, communication and media can work together - without compromising the objectivity of the research. When: 10-12 October Enrollment deadline: 25 September The PhD course is organised by the Danish…

See what others have written about

Do you need inspiration for your next assignment? Via the university library's library system, you can now find published theses, master's theses, bachelor's projects and semester assignments from KU, RUC and AU.…

Paula Sebastian joins CMP

Paula joins the DRUGS team

Vetschool revisitation visit from EAEVE

On the 20th-22nd September, the Vet School will host a re-visitation team from EAEVE.

New associate professor to strengthen research into the social dynamics of innovation

In August, Ghita Dragsdahl Lauritzen was appointed associate professor at the Department of Sociology. She will work in the intersection between sociology and innovation in her research and teaching.

BRIDGE welcomes 15 new talented postdocs

We are excited to welcome 15 new fellows to the BRIDGE Translational Excellence Programme. The fellows started on 1 September 2022 and will over the two next year perform on their translational research projects with…

Researcher: Cultural aspects of quantum theory are missing in physics classes 

Quantum mechanics is interpreted in many different – often unscientific – ways. This opens up questions about the foundations of quantum theory and its relationship with culture that physics educators should not ignore,…

It’s all about engaging

To Tom Yagel, an Israeli full-degree student at UCPH, coming to Denmark has been a life-long dream. UCPH has lived up to his expectations, but for Tom engaging in extracurricular activities on campus and in Danish…

Participating in student politics

Henry Lankes, an international student from Germany studying Nature Management (MSc) at UCPH, was recently elected as a student representative on the Geosciences Study Board. What motivated him to run for election? Do…

Student engagement

This issue of our newsletter has a student view. In an earlier issue we focused on student well-being inside and outside the classroom with articles on the challenges faced by international students in the classroom and…