News about Europe

Denmark spearheading transformation of EU food system

The University of Copenhagen is leading a comprehensive new EU project, CLEVERFOOD, that will facilitate a society-wide mobilisation of European citizens to transform the European food system that benefits climate goals…

What the heck are pulses? European unawareness stands in the way of this “green” superfood

European consumption of pulses doesn’t stack up against national dietary recommendations – with Denmark in last place. This is the finding of a new EU-funded study by the University of Copenhagen as part of the…

What characterises emergency response to slowly developing crises and disasters?

An EU-funded project hosted at Roskilde University in collaboration with Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) takes a closer look at the characteristics of attention and proactive response in the context of…

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.

Without close cooperation in Europe, UCPH will end up on the periphery

On 27 October 2022, UCPH took over the presidency of the 4EU+ University Alliance. So what? you might think. Well, let me tell you: Working together is more important to you, UCPH and Denmark than ever before.

Who are the people behind human trafficking?

With support from the EU, a new anthropological project will paint a more accurate picture of human traffickers through fieldwork in Romania and Portugal.

First Multiplier Event in Kraków

The very first Multiplier Event took place on the 20th of September 2022 in Kraków, Poland, hosted by the Centre of e-Learning at the AGH University of Science and Technology. More than 20 participants from various…

Kraków TM5 September 2022

CUTE partners gathered from 20 to 22 September in Kraków, Poland to finalize the toolkit and work on disseminating the project’s results and planning the upcoming Multiplier Events and webinars.

Strengthening links between technologies and society for European disaster resilience

On August 22, 2022, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) invited Anne Bach Nielsen, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen and Nina Blom Andersen, reader at University College Copenhagen…

PhD Symposium - "The Spectra of Life: Dimensional Breadth in Biological Research

Registration deadline: 26 October 2022 When: 7-9 December 2022 Where: EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Abstract submission deadline (for a short talk or a poster): 14 September The European Molecular Biology Laborator (EMBL) Ph…

Dorte Martinsen with new research about EU healthcare policy

During the COVID-19 crisis, European Union health policy became high politics. However, key parts of EU health cooperation have long developed more discretely in European administrative networks (EANs) and become core…

International medical conference opportunity, Czech Republic

When: 24-25 November 2022 Deadline for application: 19 August 2022. The 19th International Medical Conference for PhD students are taking place at Charles University, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové in the Czech…

New research at CEP

Members of Centre for European Politics, professor Rebecca Adler-Nissen and assistant Professor Wiebke Junk, have both released new research about respectively digital technology in diplomacy and first mover advantages…

Adler-Nissen in DR Nyhederne

Professor Rebecca Adler-Nissen participated in a Danish news segment to discuss what research said on the topic of pro-Russian misinformation. For more information, follow the conversation on Twitter.

Danes have reduced meat consumption – but we lag behind other Europeans

A major new survey on meat consumption in Europe reports that Europeans have a growing appetite for plant-based foods and that meat consumption has dipped. While this applies to Denmark as well, Danes lag behind the…

Steppe migrant thugs pacified by Stone Age farming women

When present day European genetics was formed during the beginning of the Bronze Age 5000 years ago it was a result of migrating Yamnaya pastoralists from the Caspian steppe encountering Stone Age farmers in northern an…

Review article in Nature: Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics.

In the review co-authors Rasmus Nielsen and Eske Willerslev from CGG provide an overview of the most important insights into human evolutionary history based on DNA-sequencing.

When modern Eurasia was born

Modern European and Central Asian peoples are genetically speaking not more than a couple of thousand years old.

Ancient genomes show the European meta-populations

DNA recovered from a 36,000 year old fossil skeleton found in Russia shows early divergence of Eurasians once they had left Africa, and the deep shared ancestry of Europeans.

Genetic uniformity across Europe in the Mesolithic

Analysing mtDNA and other genomic data from two 7.000 year old skeletons from Northwestern Spain suggests a remarkable genetic uniformity over a large geographic area of the pre-Neolithic populations. Furthermore…

DNA from ancient Danes

Morten Allentoft has been hired as a post doc researcher at GeoGenetics to study the DNA of ancient Danish people.