A couple of months ago my 13-year-old son came to me with a true story. One of his acquaintances had given him control of an Instagram profile with roughly 3,500 followers as a gift. A few days later…
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University of Copenhagen
With over 38,000 students and more than 9,000 employees, the University of Copenhagen is the largest institution of research and education in Denmark. The purpose of the University - to quote the University Statute - is to ‘conduct research and provide further education to the highest academic level’.
The University of Copenhagen is the oldest University in Denmark - founded in 1479. The University has four campus areas in Copenhagen and consists of six faculties - Health and Medical Sciences, Humanities, Law, Science, Social Sciences and Theology - with over one hundred different departments, institutes, centres, laboratories and museums.
The motivational force of the University’s research activities is financially and politically independent, i.e. free basic research; however, specific collaborative endeavours with other institutions and companies also have a place among the countless research activities. The dissemination of knowledge and findings to other research environments and the general public is a natural element of the University’s research efforts.
The University of Copenhagen’s research-based education also enables the private and public sectors to recruit expert staff and access the latest knowledge in such diverse areas as health, food, biological production and globalisation.
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Professor of International Relations, University of Copenhagen
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Profesor e investigador postdoctoral en la Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Geociencias y Gestión de los Recursos Naturales, University of Copenhagen
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Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen
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Post-doctorate researcher, Department of Conflict and Development Studies, University of Copenhagen
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Associate professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen
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Research Intern, University of Copenhagen
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Associate professor in Science Education, University of Copenhagen
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Associate Professor, Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen
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Assistant professor of geography, University of Copenhagen
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Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
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PhD Fellow in Evolutionary Genomics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
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Head of the Saxo Institute for History, Archaeology, Ethnology and Classics, University of Copenhagen
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Post Doctorate Researcher under the DANIDA funded project on security, sustainable growth and peace in Uganda., University of Copenhagen
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Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen
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PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen
