Perhaps our most important task should not, first and foremost, be to communicate the latest knowledge. Perhaps it should be teaching people to understand how knowledge is created in the first place, writes Professor Morten Storm Overgaard in his column.

Aarhus University had a strong presence this year at Denmark’s political festival, Folkemødet on Bornholm. The total costs are approaching DKK 2 million, but there are significant differences in how much the individual faculties have spent.

The provider admits that the latest version of WISEflow’s assessment tool has failed to meet expectations and promises urgent improvements to the exam system’s user interface ahead of the winter exams.

The Aarhus University Teaching Prize is changing its name and will be known as the Vibeke Borchsenius Prize from now on. It will be presented alongside several other awards at Aarhus University’s annual celebration on 11 September.

The PARK knowledge festival returns to the University Park this year with an expanded two-day programme on 22 and 23 August.

Three junior researchers and one student from AU have spent a week of their summer in the exclusive company of no fewer than 70 Nobel laureates.