University Life

The Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences invites businesses to benefit from the department’s expertise and facilities, and anticipates that shared workdays will be a fertile ground for innovation and…

He is one of the writers behind top box office films like Fasandræberne (The Pheasant Killers), A Royal Affair and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. For the first time, screenwriter Rasmus Heisterberg will now step into…

New thinking in education is called for if Denmark is to deliver a truly humanitarian effort while benefiting from the many well-educated refugees who are entering the country. The University of Copenhagen is seeking…

Knowledge, growth and visions for future health. These will be the keywords when the University of Copenhagen formally becomes part of the strategic alliance 'Health Axis Europe' on Thursday 27 August 2015 at 14.00. The…

For the fifth time the University of Copenhagen is hosting a teaching conference for everyone in Denmark with an interest in education. This year’s themes span interdisciplinarity, teaching entrepreneurship and teaching…

On 30 July, 7,641 applicants were offered a place at the University of Copenhagen. The number is at level with last year but covers a slight change in applicants’ study preferences with more students admitted to social…

The University of Copenhagen received 25,995 applications from a total of 17,238 individual applicants this year.

The Teacher of the Year at SCIENCE 2015 award has been bestowed upon Associate Professor Michael Pittelkow of the Department of Chemistry. The recipient was selected by a group of students...

UCPH rector, Ralf Hemmingsen, and executive vice president and chief science officer at Novo Nordisk, Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, sign the deal. The Novo Nordisk International Programme of Talents will boost student…

A UCPH Department of Chemistry researcher has been awarded the first ever “SCIENCE Business Prize for Young Researchers” for connecting polluters with research-based air purification solutions developed at the Universit…

- Thanks to student exchange, each year thousands of young people criss-cross the world and like little threads you help us all to come a little closer together. By choosing to come to Denmark and spend a semester here…

EpiTherapeutics, a Danish firm that develops medicine using biomedical research conducted at the University of Copenhagen, was today sold to an American drug maker for 444 million kroner. EpiTherapeutics’ products are…

Chancellor Angela Merkel and prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt debated economic growth in Europe with university students Tuesday afternoon.

The number of quota-2 applicants in 2015 rose slightly over last year. Half had the University of Copenhagen as their first choice.

Equal opportunity New University of Copenhagen hiring guidelines now require that women be included among the applicants for all new openings for managers and researchers

The University of Copenhagen has set out ambitious new targets for sustainability designed to make UCPH one of the world’s most sustainable universities. With “Green Campus 2020: A Strategy for Resource Efficiency and…

The University of Copenhagen’s teacher of the year for 2014 is known for taking students out of the classroom and into Indian culture in both Denmark and India.

All four winners of this year's Junior Researchers Project and Minister of Education Christine Antorini and UCPH rector Ralf Hemmingsen. The University of Copenhagen today named four upper-secondary school students as…

Even though the University of Copenhagen must still reduce enrolment by 883 student places, a new agreement with the Ministry of Higher Education and Science has given the University an extra four years to do so.

Ten of the world's top universities now release the Green Guide for Universities at the international conference Making Universities Sustainable Conference that takes place in Copenhagen this week. The guide makes it…

Copenhagen Competition 2014 takes place in the University of Copenhagen’s Ceremonial Hall 20 to 21 October.

The Danish National Research Foundation has announced its new centres of excellence. The University of Copenhagen is looking forward to three new centres and funding of up to DKK 175 million. UCPH researchers will also…

Companies need to pay close attention if they want to be frontrunners in technological development: University of Copenhagen brings together experts from more than 50 countries to discuss solutions to global challenges…

Universities are typically publicly acknowledged for providing two kinds of services – education and research. But universities do much more - and with a long shelf life too.

The top researcher Corinna Cortes, born in Denmark, spends most of her days on Google’s floor of executive suites in New York City. At Google she is responsible for Google Research. But on 27 September she will return t…