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Inspired by an American example, students have taken the initiative to establish an anonymous helpline. The goal of the helpline is to improve…
In March, the Danish government and the Danish People's Party adopted a law to introduce a DKK 10,000 tuition fee for the Danish study programme for…
Dorthe Hagen Nielsen took a leave of absence from her job as research group coordinator at AU, strapped on a backpack and travelled around Southeast…
Last Thursday, VIVE – The Danish Centre for Social Science Research sent an email questionnaire to every researcher at AU. The questionnaire is the…
PhD students at AU are intensely critical of the new norms for permanent academic hires, which they fear will make it even more difficult to get a…
For students at American universities, university logo clothing is virtually a uniform – and even local residents of many university towns wear…
Tine Haslam Nielsen has been studying biology at AU for five and a half years. She’s also travelled for a total of 14 months and visited 17 countries…
They met in Saint Petersburg, where she was building nuclear submarine components, nuclear power plants and space rockets and he was working on his…
IT student Christoffer Hauthorn has just won the Guldæg 2018 entrepreneurship prize along with the rest of the company Emplate he co-founded alongside…
When the university informs an AU employee that they are in line for dismissal, the union representative must be informed either at the same time or…
Over one-third of the experienced thesis supervisors at Aarhus BSS agree in a new survey.
After the summer holiday, students will be able to get free, impartial help in connection with problems like complaints against a decision of the…
AU hasn’t done a good enough job of making sure that students know who to contact if they experience bullying, harassment or abuse, admits Pro-rector…
The royal couple Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary attended the opening of The Crown Prince Frederik Center for Public Leadership, a new…
AURUS, the IT system employees use to settle their travel expenses, will be replaced by a new system at the end of August.
Emeritus Professor Jens Christian Skou passed away on Monday 28 May 2018 at the age of 99. Skou received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997.
Christina Munk, mechanical engineer and associate professor at the Aarhus University School of Engineering, limits herself to the strictly necessary…
Peter and the Wolf is a hot topic in the Danish media right now. The wolf, because wolves have returned to the Danish countryside. Peter Sunde, senior…
The two founders of the group Studerende and Sorg (Student and grief) have dealt with grief themselves during their studies, and now organise grief…
There were 15 applicants to the position of head of the Department of Computer Science.
Volunteer work is rooted deeply in Danish society. Thirty-five per cent of the Danes do volunteer work. But what drives people to spend time and…
Denmark has a long history of volunteer work dating back to the 1860s, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen explains. He is a professor of political science who…
For over six months, workmen have been banging away on an interior renovation of Residence Hall 1, which was stripped down to the bare walls. Now the…
On 2 May, the senior management team revealed its plans for the expansion of AU’s central campus over the next ten years into a full-blown ‘University…
Helle Colding Seiersen checked her phone in the middle of the night for updates on the progress of the OK18 collective agreement negotiations. As…
Emeritus Professor Roy Edwin Weber’s story is not just about half a century of internationally recognised achievement within the field of…
Last May, Anders S. Barfod, an associate professor of botany at AU, requested permission to create a meadow outside the classrooms where he teaches…
The strike and lockout have been called off. At least until further notice – because as you’ll have heard if you’ve been keeping up with the news, the…
Making the roads in the University Park more bike-friendly doesn’t go far enough, according to SF’s members on the Aarhus City Council, who have…
The controversial renovation of Residence Hall 1, AU’s oldest residence hall, is now complete. Almost all 59 rooms have been rented out, but none of…
AU has allocated DKK 650,000 to research aimed at ensuring a more equal gender balance among the university’s academic staff.
Aarhus University Sport has just made an agreement with fitness.dk which will allow AU students to work out in all of the chain’s centers in Aarhus at…
A scientist taped to a steel shelf, a corduroy shirt draped over a chair and a Madonna in muted colours with a crude wooden spike sticking out of her…
Not surprisingly, the rector is the highest-paid employee at AU, with an annual salary of DKK 1.7 million, followed by the pro-rector and the…
If you want to get really good at a new language, conversation is key. That’s the philosophy behind the network Swap Language, which two AU students…
The March for Science honouring the role of science in society will be held again this year in Aarhus and in Copenhagen.
Even though your teachers would be the target of a lockout, it would also affect you and other students.
On 1 April, Lotte Thue Pedersen took over the post of joint union representative for technical/administrative staff (TAPs) at Aarhus University,…
It’s a myth that science programmes are more demanding than humanities programmes. But according to experts from both Arts and ST, Arts needs to do a…
Steffen Krogh, associate professor of Germanic linguistics, reads a lot of his books backwards – from right to left – and is a frequent guest in…
Lockout? As in locked out? No, the rector isn’t going to lock the doors to all the departments, the administration, the libraries, the labs and all…
What in the world is going on with all this talk about labour disputes, lockouts, failed negotiations and collective agreements?
In a number of cases, the lockout – if it happens – will not apply to PhD students who are studying abroad.
The unions involved in the OK18 collective agreement negotiations received an official lockout notice from the Agency for the Modernisation of Public…
While the conciliation board attempts to negotiate a collective agreement for public sector employees, the trade unions have announced a demonstration…
The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC) club at AU, whose members are the AC union representatives, is hosting information meetings…
Will I be compensated for the time I lose as a consequence of the lockout? Will I be called home from research abroad? And what about my students’…
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