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New bill

New bill on the development and use of AI systems in the processing of personal data in public administration.

New Postdoctoral Researcher - Anna Murphy Høgenhaug

Anna Murphy Høgenhaug joins MOBILE as Postdoctoral Researcher.

Researching and remembering women in international organisations

Blog post by Louis Clerc.

New Permanent Visiting Professor - Mary Boatemaa Setrana

Mary Boatemaa Setrana joins MOBILE as Permanent Visiting Professor.

Get advice and guidance from the two PhD counsellors

The journey towards a PhD can sometimes be challenging, and a conversation with a PhD counsellor might be a way to get new motivation and figure out new solutions. If you – as a PhD student or a PhD supervisor –…

Can organizing and collective bargaining coverage alleviate recruitment challenges?

The comparative EU-funded project ‘Developing Collective Bargaining in the Care Sector’ (DEVCOBA) examines the role of the social partners in increasing membership and strengthening collective bargaining coverage,…

Call for applications: Postdoc in European Mobility Law

MOBILE is looking for a new postdoctoral fellow to start 1 Sept 2026.

When Crisis Strikes, Denmark’s Volunteers Step Forward

A portion of the population is ready to take action when crisis hits and others need help. According to researchers from the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, these individuals make up a civilian…

Workshop on free movement in West Africa brings scholars to Accra

MOBILE and the Centre for Migration Studies convene international workshop in Ghana.

Pregnancy changes women’s responses to infants

Pregnant women react more positively than non‑pregnant women when exposed to audio recordings, videos, and images of infants. This suggests that pregnancy mentally prepares women to process infant signals, according to …

Volunteering trajectories across crises

With this study published in Social Forces, Lærke Høgenhaven, Louis Møgelmose, Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, and Jonas Toubøl document substantial changes in the composition of civil society’s volunteer population from before t…

New Project: Pastoral Resilience and Sense of Place in Uganda (PreSense)

Marianne Mosebo introduces a new project funded by the Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC).

VELUX FOUNDATION funds new national sustainable initiative

A new national initiative, JURiB – Developing Competence in Law for Sustainability, unites Denmark’s legal research and educational environments with a shared mission: building a more sustainable society.

Differentiated VAT: When Good Intentions Collide

The desire to help financially pressured households is a core political task. However, good intentions collide with other familiar good intentions, creating a series of paradoxes.

New Permanent Visiting Professor - Luuk van der Baaren

Luuk van der Baaren joins MOBILE as Permanent Visiting Professor.

Different mechanisms are responsible for underconfidence

As humans, we can underestimate ourselves, even when we perform just as well as others. Women and people with anxiety in particular are known to doubt their own choices – and this is due to two different mechanisms,…

New Visiting Researcher at CeBIL - Tatiana Aranovich

13 April - 8 May 2026

Danish municipalities and foreign policy – what can and can't they do?

As a rule, municipalities can't say much about foreign policy. But there are exceptions to that rule. A new research article from the Faculty of Law looks at where the line is drawn for municipalities when it comes to…

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Martin Herje

26 February - 12 March 2026

Social partners’ influence on job quality in care in Denmark and the Netherlands

There are persistent challenges with job quality within child- and eldercare in Denmark and the Netherlands, but improvements can also be observed. The social partners have a decisive influence on these matters, althoug…

CIIR is a partner of COPY.AI

CIIR is proud to be a partner of the Nordic-Baltic research project “COPY.AI”, funded by NordForsk’s program on Responsible Use of AI.

Katja Lindskov Jacobsen appointed chair of new External Expert Panel established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The External Expert Panel will contribute to the professional quality assurance of major bilateral grants and support the government's development policy priorities through strategic advice.

Romeo Porsing

Romeo Porsing's project examines Danish and EU law governing the authorisation, establishment, and operation of nuclear test facilities, research facilities, and commercial operations.

New booking process for procedure rooms

From now on, all bookings of procedure rooms must be made via the UCPH Rooms booking system in Microsoft Outlook or UCPH webmail.