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Merit-based reward has long been celebrated within academia. But the belief that we have a true meritocracy may perpetuate inequalities, argue the…
The special interest organisation Bæredygtigt Landbrug (‘sustainable agriculture’) has summonsed Professor Stiig Markager from the Department of…
It’s confirmed that in total 80 positions have been affected due to the redundancies at TECH, which have affected public sector consultancy the most.…
Rector Brian Bech Nielsen acknowledges that he had a part in the unlawful decision to postpone responding to Information’s freedom of information…
168 junior researchers at Aarhus University are trying to make politicians listen to their concerns about the potential consequences of continuing to…
The Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science has issued a strong rebuke of AU’s ‘highly objectionable’ actions in connection with a newspaper’s…
Connie Hedegaard, chair of the AU Board, stresses that Aarhus University has to put an end to the current spate of scandals, which in addition to the…
The Faculty of Technical Sciences is looking at big budget cuts, especially within the area of public sector consultancy. This is in part due to years…
As a consequence of coronavirus entry restrictions, ten international PhD students are unable to travel to Denmark to start their research projects at…
On April 6, AU will begin gradually opening its doors again to students and employees – with a negative coronavirus test result as an admission…
After Easter, Denmark’s institutions of higher education will begin reopening their doors to students. Students in their final year on degree…
As late as October 2020 the staff representatives asked at a Faculty Liaison Committee (FSU) meeting if there were budget cuts in the pipeline. No…
In an open letter, four union reps from the Department of Environmental Science criticise the university’s decision to effectuate deep cutbacks on…
A DKK 30 million grant from the Ministry of Higher Education and Science will fund the digitisation of Denmark’s natural history collections. At the…
In the herbarium at Aarhus University, plant history is guaranteed for future generations. Neatly archived in folders and glass jars, up to 750,000…
Gender equality in academia is not just about the number of males and females in the research spaces or in the laboratories. It’s also about having…
Once again, both the rector and the dean at Nat have stressed that AU researchers are free to express critique of research practices. Their latest…
The chairman of the board for the Carlsberg Foundation Flemming Besenbacher has disqualified himself from assessing any applications from the Faculty…
On Saturday February 6, the trade unions and the state finalised the new collective agreement, which will apply to state employees for the next three…
A common rule of thumb is that students should knuckle down with their studies for 40 hours a week, on average. But what do you do, if you are an…
Threats sent to a professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Rune Hartmann, have been reported to the police by the senior…
It takes more than ten chairs and a conference table to create a good meeting – and it takes more than a Zoom password and a good internet connection…
This year AU adopted a new action plan for gender equality at the university with the main focus being to employ more female researchers. But what is…
The vast majority of natural sciences departments are struggling to employ more female researchers. And several departments are also struggling to…
New restrictions on travel to Denmark mean that right now, studying in Denmark isn’t a valid reason to enter the country. As a consequence, the…
What is it like to be an international researcher in Denmark with a limited social network during the Covid-19 pandemic? At a seminar held by the…
At the Departments of Political Science, Economics and Management, and Business Development and Technology, less than one in three associate…
University courses at the Faculty of Health attract a large number of applications from women, and as a result, more of the departments at the faculty…
DPU – Danish School of Education is one of the few schools at AU which has an equal distribution of men and women in academic positions from post-doc…
In the beginning of October, 107 researchers from Aarhus University signed an open letter stating that they had experienced sexism in the world of…
Unfortunately the university chaplains at AU and Studenterhus Aarhus won’t be able to hold this year’s Christmas party after all due to new covid19…
689 researchers across the country’s universities have signed an open letter confirming that they have experienced or witnessed sexually offensive…
DEBATE. Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen is a psychology professor at Aarhus University. She writes about her experience of being a woman and mother in…
The last of the 6,350 mink at AU’s experimental min farm in Foulum have been put down as a consequence of the government’s decision to cull all mink…
In an op ed in Omnibus, Assistant Professor Carolina von Essen criticized what she describes as a lack of progress in improving gender equality at the…
You’ve probably noticed that something has happened at AU: Most of the corridors and cafeterias have been decorated – or simply plastered with – small…
Carolina von Essen, an assistant professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, wrote a piece on what it’s like to be a female researcher at…
Postdoc Ea Høg Utoft’s research interest is gender equality. And she can help us understand why AU has been having such a hard time achieving its goal…
300-500 metric tons of sludge. That’s how much ooze project manager Claus Førby-Danielsen expects to dredge up from the bed of the southern half of…
The government has made face masks mandatory in restaurants, bars and cafes – and this also goes for AU’s canteens.
Up to 30 students, primarily from the business administration and law programs, have contracted COVID-19 over the course of the past week.
Just eighteen months after sowing, the ‘Fuld Flor’ strip of wildflowers on Ny Munkegade had become so species-rich that it could be used for teaching…
Three of the five professors who have been appointed to review Denmark’s response to COVID-19 are from Aarhus University.
There are about 1,200 students from all over the world at AU’s campus in Herning. Jesper Bjørn Schlæger is a BSc Economic and Business Administration…
What events should you make sure you don’t miss, and where’s the best place to study? An Emdrup student and former chair of BarBund shares her best…
Where can you find cheap coffee, where are the best places to study, and what events are not to be missed? Three students share their top tips for new…
Due to the coronavirus crisis, AU will be welcoming significantly fewer international students next semester – and 500 AU students have already had…
A semester abroad is about getting to know a new culture, a new university and new friends. But for many exchange students this spring, their semester…
Fifty-one of 129 new apartments centrally located in Katrinebjerg are reserved for PhD students and postdocs.
A number of canteens and cafés at AU are now open again after months of lockdown. Here’s a guide to where you can go when hunger pangs start gnawing.
Starting today, students at the country’s universities will be able to use reading rooms, group rooms and libraries to students over the summer. Right…
On Tuesday, sculptor Bjørn Nørgaard checked out the foundation that will bear his sculpture ’Ars – Scientia – Iustitia’. The sculpture itself, which…
Dean Eskild Holm Nielsen, dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences, believes that science should be governing principle for the organisation of…
Phase 2 of the gradual reopening of the country begins on Monday. A reopening that will basically bypass the university – which the rector hadn’t…
The internal consultation on AU’s action plan for diversity and gender equality 2020-21 has begun. The action plan focusses on improving gender…
Most of the AU Summer University courses will be offered online this year.
Due to the risk of infection, this spring’s salary negotiations have been moved from physical conference rooms to digital ones. What will that mean…
400 Health, Nat and Tech researchers, including postdocs and PhD students, have been allowed to return to their test tubes at AU, along with technical…
There should have been 50-60 people in the audience in the auditorium for Trine Block Mattesen’s PhD defence. Instead, three years of research…
Initially, the organisers postponed AU’s rubber raft regatta to June 26. But now they’ve announced that there will be no battle for the Golden Bedpan…
Last week, the government and the Danish parliament agreed to start gradually reopening society. And this includes research labs.
Three PhD students at the Department of Agroecology in Foulum encourage their colleagues and fellow students to use the Ecosia search machine, which…
As a result of millions of kroner in cutbacks at the Department of Clinical Medicine, about 10 staff members are set to lose their jobs this month.
Anders Møller, professor of computer science at Aarhus University, won an Elite Research Prize and 1.2 million kroner for his program analysis…
So says Kira Stine Hansen, deputy director of the Royal Danish Library, who describes the situation as “more critical than we think is acceptable”.…
PhD student Juan Pablo Pacheco Esnal is in quarantine outside Marseille right now. He and his French-Uruguayan girlfriend were among the evacuees…
Kristian Pedersen, professor of space science, will be the first dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. His new job starts on April 1st.
When Steffen Junker, associate professor of biomedicine, was elected as union representative at AU in 2003, he had never heard about anyone burning…
Individual talent programmes such as the new Inge Lehmann programme are god news for the few women who receive grants from them. But the programme is…
This is the overall goal set out by the draft of AU’s first climate strategy – a goal that can only be reached if the university compensations some of…
The goals in the draft of Aarhus University’s first climate strategy are ambitious enough that AU will have make deep changes in how it operates to…
Hazel Reardon is member of the administrative staff at the Department of Chemistry. She is from Scotland where she's going to celebrete Christmas this…
Zbigniew Sobkowicz is librarian at the Nobel Park. He is from France but keeps both French and Polish traditions.
Vibhuti Bhushan is international coordinator and from India, but celebrates a traditional Danish Christmas.
Sarah Hansen is an international student from France and studies business and communication. Sarah Hansen knows everything about the Danish Christmas…
In just a few days, we’ll be waving goodbye to 2019 – a year that many at AU will remember as the Year of the Beef.
Viktoria Velkova Kostova, studies economics and business administration, is from Bulgaria. She thinks that people forget about the real idea behind…
Kyriaki Karvela is an international student from Greece and studies Business Development. For the first time she will celebrate Christmas in Denmark.
Chiara Bresciani is PhD Student at the School of Culture and Society and from Italy. She cannot stand Christmas shopping, especially Christmas…
Noemie Mermet-Joret is postdoc at DANDRITE and from France. This year she will celebrate a typical Danish Christmas get-together with friends
Do you also wonder about what Danes really do at Christmas? The Omnibus survival guide reveals all.
Athar Mounira Borjini studies political science and is from the Danish minority in Germany. She loves Christmas markets and Christmas dinner.
Deqa Ali is from Somalia and a part of the cleaning-staff at Aarhus BSS. She does not celebrating Christmas, but loves the Christmas holiday.
Kenneth Toah Nsah, PhD Student at the School of Communication and Culture, is from Cameroun. He celebrates Christmas with Cameroonian friends and…
Ester Salem is an international student from Belgium and studies sustainability, entrepreneurship and marketing. She travels back home to Belgium to…
Daniela Trifiletti is UIC-coordinator and from Colombia. She normally spend Christmas in either Colombia or Bornholm, but this time it’s her turn to…
Nadia Aitelhadj, cleaning-staff at BSS, is from Algeria. She loves the Christmas decorations and lights.
Salla Manninen, International student, studying a master in Human Security, is from Finland. She is going home for Christmas and she hopes for snow.
Hreinn Gudlaugsson, Graphic designer at Events and Communication Support, is from Iceland. He is going back to Iceland for Christmas so he don’t have…
Agnieszka Radziwon, assistant professor at Department of Business Development and Technology, is from Poland. This year she celebrates Christmas…
Derek Beach is professor at Department of Political Science and is from USA. He celebrates Christmas both on the 24th following Danish traditions, and…
Venka Simovska is professor and PhD at the Danish School of Education (DPU) in Emdrup. She is from North Macedonia where the church uses an old…
Nuri Faarup is part of the cleaning-staff at Aarhus BSS. She is from Indonesia where Christians celebrate Christmas on 25 December. She describes…
The first dean of the new Faculty of Technical Sciences will be a man named Eskild Holm Nielsen. He comes to AU from a position as innovation manager…
Hilde Bollen is programme coordinator (LAICS Master) at the Arts Administrative Centre in Emdrup. She is from Belgium, but has lived in Denmark for 16…
Catrine Rumohr is from Norway and works as a Relocation Officer and Expat Partner Advisor at AU Research Support and External Relations. She would…
Michelle Williams is from New Zealand. She is head of Department at the Department of Food Science.
Müge Özbek Akçay, postdoc at the Department of Psychology and behavioural Sciences, is from Turkey where the majority do not celebrate Christimas.…
Taylor Azizeh is an international student from USA and studies arctic ecosystems and marine mammals at the Arctic Research Center, Department of…
AU’s campus just got a new green oasis: AU Garden. AU Garden will bring employees and students together around growing things – from an organic…
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Debate for students and employees at Aarhus University
