Associate Professor Rikke Toft Nørgård from the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University is the Coordinator of a new cross-European consortium. Research institutions, cultural organisations and creative industries are working together to develop new models for collaboration between culture, industry and research, as well as new formats for artistic and cultural game development, with young European cultural citizens. The project has received a Horizon Europe Research & Innovation grant from the EU Commission totalling DKK 22.87 million.

From 28 November to 2 December, an intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) summoned by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) will start negotiations on an international treaty to end plastic pollution. However, 13 leading plastics scientists point out that the final agreement will be ineffective in addressing the full suite of problems posed by plastics unless negotiators include all relevant chemical issues associated with plastics across the life-cycle.

Elisa Uusimäki is per 15 November appointed professor at Department of Theology

The Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award is granted to Rubina Raja for her deep-founded humanities research, which crosses disciplinary boundaries. The bestowal of the award demonstrates that humanities frontrunner research also takes place in Denmark.

Marianne Pade, Professor of Classical philology, has received the Queen's honour for her extensive work in the service of science.

Graduates in the humanities can create a lot of value and find plenty of new solutions for organisations and companies. A new course adopts an unorthodox approach to teach students at the Faculty of Arts how to use their expertise for innovative purposes and the creation of value.

When millions of fans are excited about the football world championship in the near future, it happens with several rituals resembling those of faith. But is it fair to talk about football as a modern religion? This question has associate professor in the study of religion at the faculty of Arts, Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger, studied.

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The widely respected European ECREA conference is coming to Denmark later this month. This is the first time the conference is being held in Scandinavia, and more than 1,300 participants are expected to attend. It’s Europe’s largest media and communication conference, and it’s being hosted by Aarhus University.

The circumstances facing different families vary a great deal – as do the resources with which they are equipped. So when it comes to organising learning activities in the home, some families are far more able to live up to the demands of childcare centres than others. But why don’t we just let the professionals deal with these learning tasks, instead of assuming responsibility for their agenda?

Professor of anthropology Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing receives the title of honorary doctor 2022 and can look forward to being celebrated on 9 September