Public-sector institutions have been directed to turn down the heat to 19° C from 1 October this year. This was announced at a press conference on energy supply for the coming winter held by the government on Thursday afternoon. And to make it easier for students to pay their bills, the ceiling on maximum permissible earnings for SU recipients has been raised, and the most vulnerable students will receive tax-free checks.

If you’ve come to study at AU from abroad, in addition to getting used to the climate, the food and biking up and down all those hills, you also need to learn the lingo you need to survive and thrive as a student here. What are academic regulations? What’s a Friday bar? And is an AU VIP some kind of celebrity? Hint: no... Or well, it depends on the ego of the VIP you ask...

Price increases and worsening economic conditions will result in significant financial losses for the university in 2022, AU recently announced. To help reduce these losses, AU has introduced a partial hiring freeze with immediate effect.

Birgitte Nauntofte worked at the University of Copenhagen for 27 years, both as a researcher and in management. And for 12 years, she was the director of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, one of Denmark’s most prominent commercial foundations. She divides her time between Denmark and the United States – and now she’ll need to factor Aarhus into her travel plans. Because starting in December, she’ll take a seat at the the head of the table in AU’s board room.

Magdalena Mittermüller, an exchange student from Vienna, Austria learned much more than the curriculum during her year in Aarhus. She encountered a desirable work-life balance and respect and humanity between professors and students. And she also discovered that it takes a fair amount of vitamin D, plush sweaters and hot coffee to get through the freezing Danish winter.

The Friday bar at the history department is not a place to start your night out; it reportedly only gets going later in the evening. But the bar staff keep themselves in top condition with vodka slaps. The small room adorned with historical figures is easy to feel at home in but difficult to squeeze your way through when it’s full.

While Aarhus University is working to establish a new campus in Foulum, just outside Viborg, Midttrafik has re-routed and discontinued bus services in the area, which has made it more difficult for PhD students and other employees to get to and from Foulum. Mayor of Viborg Ulrik Wilbek (Danish Liberal Party) is looking into the matter in order to ensure a better bus connection to and from Foulum – initially for the summer period.

Kalkulerbar is not an intimately located Friday bar with loud voices and a dance floor, but rather a quiet bar in a corridor with large windows. The makeshift bar offers board games and cheap shots – and is a good place to start your evening.

Oleg Yarosh is exempt from military service on medical grounds and was therefore able to leave Ukraine with his family. His wife has been awarded a fellowship in Poland, and he has received a fellowship at AIAS, where he can continue his research on Western Sufism. So the family is scattered across Europe, but they are safe from the war in their home country.