Two-day Life Sciences party this weekend

Smediefesten is an annual two-day party at UCPH, former Faculty of Life Sciences (now Science). Always held in May, the party honors an old smithy (in Danish: smedie), demolished in 1977 against the will of the students.

Volunteer students use a whole week to set up scenes, bars, party tents and prepare savoury foods for the huge get-together. Any profits will go to students in the form of travel grants.

Debate rages over abolished freshers' event

This year, one in five physics students didn’t show for their first exam at the University of Copenhagen. Last year, it was only four per cent. Students think that this is because freshers' week was dropped this year.

Previous evaluations of course introductions show that students consider freshers' week, the so-called rustur to be one of the best things on the introduction programme.

The debate now rages between the Student Council and the Vice-dean of the Faculty of Science:

Combine social and academic aspects

Up to a thousand guests at Life Sciences birthday

It was its 153rd birthday, and the Faculty of Life Sciences hosted a massive breakfast party for students.

World famous chef and honorary associate professor Claus Meyer was there to give advice on Nordic cooking. He is the co-founder of Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant recently voted the best in the world.

Meyer is known as an agitator for ‘The New Nordic Cuisine Movement’, which aims to minimize the use of non-local agricultural produce, hereby promoting environment-friendly food consumption.

See our photos from the feast here.

1,500 life science students to be fed breakfast

Tuesday 8 March has the Faculty of Life Sciences turning 153. At the birthday party, a world-renowned chef Claus Meyer will open the students’ eyes – and mouths – to the best of culinary Denmark.

Claus Meyer is not only an honorary associate professor at the Department of Gastronomy and Health but also the co-founder of Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant recently voted the best in the world.

He is known as an agitator for ‘The New Nordic Cuisine Movement’, which aims to minimize the use of non-local agricultural produce, hereby promoting environment-friendly food consumption.

Activists turn junk into floating community

During ungodly hours of the night you can find two Faculty of Life Science students, Dave Washington and Kasper Bjørnson, in an old, graffiti-laden warehouse.

Armed with paintbrushes and angle grinders they, along with thirty other people, are building a floating 'kurarken', or wellness ark. Together they are trying to build a model community that reflects sustainable living, self-reliance and social equality.

See our photo story from the Floating City warehouse here.

Organized chaos

Internationals get Copenhagen cheap living tips

Let’s face it, Copenhagen is not a cheap place to live.

Around 50 new international full-degree Masters’ students gathered Friday as part of their introductory programme to the University of Copenhagen. Today's lesson was in cheap living.

Tricks and insider tips were presented by Danish student assistant Anne Fledelius, based on how she herself gets by on a tiny budget.

See pictures from the course here.

Kiosks are a rip-off

And the essentials were the first thing on the agenda: Food shopping, a bike, and water-proof clothes!