AU's research is at a high international level, the university's new research evaluation shows. But the report also points to areas where there is…

Anders, Jørn and the other fire guards are now in place in the stairwells, ensuring that students can return to classrooms and study rooms, but both…

The rock star of knitting, Lærke Bagger, filled the Main Hall and encouraged knitting enthusiasts from across Aarhus University to let go of control…

PhD in Biology, Ida Cecilie Jensen is in the final at this year's PhD Cup, which celebrates the best communicated PhD dissertations from the country's…

Asbjørn With has many years of experience from several local media in Jutland, most recently from a position as an investigative journalist at TV…

Dean Maja Horst and Vice-Dean Niels Lehmann respond to criticism in an opinion piece written by Professor of History Mary Hilson.

Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (Moderates) and Minister of Higher Education and Science Christina Egelund (Moderates) wanted to know how to…

The Independent Research Fund Denmark adjusts the criteria for assessing applications for research grants.

Professor of History Mary Hilson misses both greater ambitions and deeper reflections on the ethical, environmental and educational consequences of…

The new student association JURAI will focus on the use of artificial intelligence within law and build bridges between students and companies. The…

Professor Søren Wandahl is the new head of department at the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering.

Ahead of the Danish general election on 24 March, you can meet the political lead candidates at a series of election debates at Aarhus University. Get…

300 AU students filled the City Auditorium for a somewhat lopsided election debate, where the political parties' lead candidates discussed immigration…

In keeping with tradition, the participating associations for this year's Regatta gathered at the lakes in the University Park on Sunday, 1 March.…

Christian Hansen thought his student political activities should unfold locally in his biology studies. Now, around a year since his first meeting, he…

A lack of warning systems in four buildings in the Nobel Park sends students from several degree programmes at the Faculty of Arts home for online…

The Danish Rights Alliance is stepping on someone who is lying down when they want more fines for already financially stressed students. Instead, one…

Volunteer students across the IT programmes at AU host a hackathon on 13 – 15 March in the Nygaard building on Katrinebjerg. The weekend is all about…

For 20 years, Business Factory at AU Herning (Department of Business Development and Technology) has helped students create a business out of a good…

A political agreement that makes knowledge-based innovation and entrepreneurship a core task for universities reflects the fact that politicians see…

If you want to attend the 2026 Regatta, put April 24th in your calendar.

The renovation of the northern lake in the University Park has been delayed due to the frosty start of the year. And now AU is resorting to plan B to…

A British AU student has started a new green student association, the Sustainability and Energy Club Aarhus, focusing on sustainability and energy.…

Both the Dean of Tech, Eskild Holm Nielsen, and the director of Enterprise and Innovation, Lone Ryg Olsen, have been extended for another three years…

The union representatives at Aarhus University are very satisfied with the collective agreement for government employees that was finalised on…

There is no change to be traced after several years of educational work, as students continue to share study books illegally. Rights Alliance is…

On Wednesday, Minister of Finance Nicolai Wammen (Social Democrats) and negotiators representing the state sector presented a new collective agreement…

With AU-Sports' new location centrally on campus in Aarhus, you can take a break from your books with a game of badminton, roundnet or a dance in one…

On February 25, Conservative students in Aarhus invite you to a lecture with Emma Holten and a subsequent debate across the political party lines with…

Due to the snow, Aarhus University cancels all in-person teaching on Friday 6 February and encourages employees to work from home.

Students from Aarhus BSS took over the University City on Monday, 2 February. Their first impression of the new campus is predominantly positive –…

250 laboratory technicians and biomedical laboratory scientists from Danish universities left the laboratory for two days to cultivate their…

On Tuesday, the government reached an agreement with the Socialist People’s Party and the Red-Green Alliance on food cheques. And there is a one-off…

AU's staff fitness centre, AU Motion, moves to new premises on Trøjborgvej, right next to the University City, after the summer holidays.

A knitting community across the departments at Aarhus University is launching a large knitting event on 9 March in the Main Hall. Regardless of…

Anthropologist Charlotte Nørholm, on behalf of Central Denmark Region, is investigating why 70,000 patients fail to attend their appointments in the…

The newly constructed round auditorium building in the University City and the square outside, paved with red bricks, have been given a name. And no,…

The 60-year-old student bar Klubben has replaced the worn-out bicycle cellar on Fuglesangs Allé with brand new premises in the University City. The…

More than 200 American researchers, all of whom have conducted research in Greenland, have signed a statement expressing solidarity with Greenland and…

In smaller language programmes, you wouldn’t know that AU has had a large financial surplus over the past three years, writes Leah Buchwald, who…

The Board of Roskilde University has appointed Rasmus Antoft, Dean at Aalborg University, as the new rector. He will assume the position on 1 March.

AU's innovation and entrepreneurial house The Kitchen is now changing both its name and address. According to Aarhus University's director of…

In its own words, Aarhus University wants to be the epicentre for research, education and innovation in cyber security and is investing DKK 300…

With a carefully thought-out colour palette, an eye for the past and present – and an overview of more than 17,000 pieces of furniture, architect…

Ulla Gjørling took up her role as the new administrative centre manager at the Faculty of Arts on 1 January. She previously held the position of head…

On 1 May 2026, Professor Christian Fynbo Christiansen will take up the position as head of department at the Department of Clinical Medicine. He is a…

From 2027, Great Britain will once again be part of the joint European exchange programme Erasmus+, which the British countries left because of…

Technological interventions to prevent climate change have created both hope and fear in 2025. Chad M. Baum is an assistant professor at the…

After 24 years at the department, Professor Andreas Basse-O’Connor is taking over as head of the Department of Mathematics. His new job starts on…

There has rarely been a greater need for language skills than right now, yet the number of applicants for language programmes continues to decline.…

Minister Christina Egelund will follow the recommendations of a task force that has presented a number of initiatives to tighten the admission process…

Friday, December 19, was the last day with students in AU's buildings on Fuglesangs Allé. Since the mid-1960s, the buildings have housed students,…

The breakthroughs in artificial intelligence are coming so fast that it can sometimes be difficult to keep up. That’s what philosopher and associate…

AU expects to close 2025 with a surplus of DKK 268 million. Both the operations and the financials produce larger profits than budgeted. That leaves a…

Torben Røjle Christensen, professor at the Department of Ecoscience, is accustomed to working in the cold climate of the Arctic. However, the…

Many employees in flexi-jobs have so far not had the right to vote when AU employees elect representatives to the university's board, board of studies…

The debate in Omnibus has been lively this year. Especially AU's new exam house has given rise to debate, the same goes for AU's decision not to…

This year, you read about dropouts, exam cheating and a lecturer who ran into strong headwinds. But also about the AU management's decision to…

During the exam period in December and January, Midttrafik will be running extra morning buses on the route to the exam hall in Lisbjerg. Midttrafik…

In keeping with tradition, the student chaplains, Studenterhus Aarhus and the Erasmus Student Network invite you to Christmas Eve at the Student House…

Overall, there is a high level of satisfaction with the PhD programmes at Aarhus University, but almost one in four PhD students at AU often or almost…

It has been more than 17 years since the northern lake in University Park was last cleaned. But now the lake has been drained of water, and the muddy…

Educational anthropologist Sine Lysdahl Jensen is a PhD student at Arts, where she researches how the physical environments of universities affect…

A round of questions among the university's boards of studies shows that quite a number of exams have been adapted to reduce the risk of cheating…

Students from the Cognitive Science and Linguistics programmes have started a drop-in group for students with mental or physical disabilities. They…

Universities are to take over much of the administration of the special education support (SPS) from 2027. This is a wish from the universities…

Would you like to brush up on your German, French or Spanish? Registration for Aarhus University's free language courses for students is now open. The…

AU is a vibrant university that opens itself to the world around and provides space for a wealth of academic and social activities. AU's campuses…

Awareness of the university newspaper Omnibus has increased significantly since the last evaluation in 2021. In addition, there is a high level of…

Everybody is in favour of interdisciplinary research. But I would like to see more hands-on and concrete action top-down to promote it, professor…

With a slightly higher turnout than last year, this year's university elections have ended. This year, there were more cancelled elections than…

AU Viborg is far from being only for agricultural and animal researchers. If we’re to solve the major problems of our time, we must work together…

A broad majority in the Danish Parliament has agreed to allocate approximately DKK 19 billion to research through 2029. As proposed by the government…

If we replace 7 with the characters 6 and 8, we no longer have a middle character, but are forced to divide the middle field without anything…

Students, a professor and the pro-rector alike see the sense in introducing a new grading scale and support more nuanced average grades. However,…

On Thursday, the government presented its proposal for a new 8-point grading scale. The government wants to discard the grade -3 and introduce more…

New Master's degree programmes, use of GAI, consultation responses and lack of power sockets. These are some of the topics that students have had…

Løgn&Latin is a musical project created by two friends and AU colleagues, Kristian Tylén and Mikkel Wallentin. It began as an excuse to spend time…

For the first time, AU is hosting a career fair for students and recent graduates with neurodivergence and physical disabilities. The fair will take…

When curiosity drives research, discoveries can radically change the world. But we must acknowledge that valuable knowledge far too often gets lost…

Jacob Sommer Simonsen, a medical student at Aarhus University, set a new world record on Friday in the ten-kilometre distance on a treadmill. He hopes…

The Labour Market Supplementary Pension (ATP) will take over the administration of the Danish Students’ Grants and Loans Scheme Office (SU) from the…

This year, students and PhD students are eligible to vote in the university elections. But what are the elections about? Who can vote – and for whom?…

On Tuesday, a pro-Palestinian demonstration blocked the intersection at Nordre Ringgade and Randersvej in both northbound and southbound directions.…

With its new proposal, the government will allocate DKK 19 billion to research and increase basic funding for universities over the next four years.…

Magnus Lindharth, a history student at AU, and his girlfriend, Signe Tandrup Hansen, share the challenges in their relationship with three other young…

Five former student counsellors at Natural Sciences and Technical Sciences had accidental access to information on 13,000 students through a system…

Clinical associate professor and medical specialist in dermatology, Lise Maria Lindahl, receives the Jens Christian Skou Prize for her research on…

The Bartholin Building at Aarhus University, which was inaugurated earlier this year after being renovated, has received the City Architect's Special…

AU initially informed the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science that the university had not specifically targeted students from Bangladesh…

The Danish Royal Library, which collaborates with Aarhus University on AU Library, must find savings of DKK 62.5 million by 2030. Savings of this…

The Minister for Green Transition, Jeppe Bruus (Social Democrats), has criticised the way AU researchers assess the wolf population in Denmark - and…

On Sunday, 28 September, this year's Beat Cancer Run at AU raised more than DKK 73,000 for the Danish Cancer Society. Just a week later, AU students…

Degree programmes that have received hundreds of applications from Bangladeshi students welcome the government’s new, tighter rules for applicants…

AU receives more exchange students than the university sends abroad. At the same time, the university experiences that every third student back out…

Unigrillens Venner is the name of a new association. It is fighting to bring life, and not least, food service, back to the old University grill bar…