News about The University

New initiative is set to make climate education tangible and relevant

A new teaching project from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, supported by the Villum Foundation, will develop hands-on climate education rooted in schools’ local nature.

Professor Kristian Bernt Karlson elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology

Professor Kristian Bernt Karlson from the Department of Sociology has been elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology (EAS).

Professor Remko Boom receives the 2025 Nils Foss Excellence Prize

The Nils Foss Excellence Prize is given to internationally acclaimed scientists and honors excellent, innovative research leading to remarkable improvements in sustainability, quality and safety in the food supply chain…

Call for Papers - Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present: Academic and Artistic Perspectives on an Urgent Issue

Organised by Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY) in collaboration with Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Practice-based Art Studies (PASS) 21-23 October 2026, University of…

Pain treatment for diabetics inspired by marine cone snails │Akasi Pharma

Walden Bjørn-Yoshimoto is CEO of Akasi Pharma, a company working to develop a new type of pain relief for diabetics, inspired by marine cone snail venom. Initially, however, it wasn’t Walden's dream to work with…

Peter Haahr receives “Young Talented Cancer Researcher Award” from the Danish Cancer Society

Peter Haahr, Group Leader at the Center for Gene Expression (CGEN), has received the Young Talented Cancer Researcher Award from the Danish Cancer Society (Kræftens Bekæmpelse). The award is made possible through the…

Sociologist joins the Independent Research Fund Denmark

Congratulations to Professor Jakob Demant, who on 1 January, 2026, will join the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) as a newly appointed council member for a four-year term.

Asta Mønsted in Interview about Greenlandic Oral History

Following the publication of her first book, Re-activating Indigenous Knowledge from Oral History: Landscape and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Greenland, Privacy scholar Asta Mønsted was recently interviewed by Naja…

BARC welcomes Lianna Hambardzumyan

BARC welcomes Lianna Hambardzumyan

Clinging to the past? Let’s overcome the fear of the digital

Blog post by Jonas Tilsted.

CAISA receives large-scale funding for collaboration on infrastructure and research on responsible AI

The National Centre for AI in Society (CAISA) is receiving 45 million Danish kroner from the Danish research reserve for a new AI collaboration with Statistics Denmark. This has been confirmed after the parties behind…

Congratulations to Jesper Velgaard Olsen

Jesper Velgaard Olsen and colleagues have received an ERC Synergy Grant for ADIPOhealth, a project exploring how adipose tissue influences heart health and disease to uncover new therapeutic targets for cardiometabolic…

New ERC Synergy Project to Pave the Way for Future Photonic Quantum Technology

Researchers from three European universities join forces to develop scalable quantum hardware based on quantum dots.

Can AI understand culture, biology and irony? Four research projects receive millions in funding

Can language models learn to understand culture and irony? How do language models actually arrive at the answers they give?

Congratulations to Jesper Velgaard Olsen

with the ERC Synergy Grant of €2,4 mio

New research project begun: Towards an Understanding of Global Feminist Enlightenments

This fall, Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (Copenhagen University) and Dr Priyanka Jha (Banaras Hindu University) started the HUM:GLOBAL research project Towards an Understanding of Global Feminist Enlightenments.

LEGATER TIL AKADEMISK UDVEKSLING - USA

Fulbright Danmark uddeler legater til danske kandidat- og ph.d.-studerende, forskere & undervisere, som tager på studie- eller forskningsophold i USA. Legaterne er på mellem 50.000-200.000 DKK. Fulbright tilbyder gratis…

Call for Papers for Special Issue - Women, Gender & Research

The theme of the special issue is: After the tipping point - New perspectives on Danish and Nordic trans studies. Deadline 7th of January.

Rector:” We want to bolster Denmark for the age of AI”

The University of Copenhagen launches a new AI Package aimed at helping Denmark and Europe harness the potential of artificial intelligence in a responsible and sustainable way — for the benefit of many.

Two DFF–Research Project1 grants awarded to Hajime Hirase and Verena Untiet

Two new research projects from Center for Translational Neuroscience have each received a DFF-Research Project1 grant of 3 million DKK.

Recent funding for VOLT

Two VOLT members from the Ecosystem Ecology group, Kathrin Rousk and Mingye Yuan, received major grants for groundbreaking studies on moss–cyanobacteria interactions and their role in ecosystem evolution.

HUM:Global establishes new partnership with The Global Biography Working Group, GloBio

NEW PARTNERSHIP: HUM:Global has formed a new partnership with GloBio, an online platform and forum for interdisciplinary scholars to present, discuss, and disseminate global biographies, particularly historical…

EUFJE Conference 2025 held at the Faculty of Law

CLIMA - Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance at the Faculty of Law hosted the 2025 Annual Conference of the EU Forum of Judges for the Environment (EUFJE).

Reconstructing maize domestication

Assistant Professor Jazmín Ramos Madrigal has been awarded a prestigious grant for her project “Reconstructing the chronology of selection during maize domestication through genotype imputation of ancient genomes.”