The experts: How to make your own job

The financial crisis has apparently set off a wave of entrepreneurship. In Denmark, the numbers of student-started companies has gone up, not down, since Europe’s paralysing recession ground the normal amount of jobs for graduates to a halt. Here is how you can be a part of the movement. Create a job of your own, and stop being dependent on a disappointing job market.

Top 10: Spring tips for guys

After the University Post's Top 10 Spring tips for girls we promised our male readers a 'guys-only' follow-up. These top 10 suggestions will get you heated up and excited about this season in Copenhagen. So get ready to venture outside, smell the fresh air, train your muscles and swig it all down with a glass of cold beer with your mates.

10. Watch the Copenhagen marathon

Guide to Denmark's summer festivals 2012

Long days at the library and nightmares about failing exams. This time of year is a living hell for most students. The light at the end of the tunnel seems far away but it’s there alright. As exams and summer are closing in on us, so are the many great festivals in DK. Here’s a list of the best. You can even win tickets for one of the festivals, NorthSide just by entering into our 'Show us your room' photo competition.

The guide is in chronological order so you can just print it out and stick it on your fridge door.

25-27 May: Copenhagen Carnival

This Sunday: Piano virtuoso to play John Cage

Art can often be many things, for different people; Confusing, inspiring, educational, and this Sunday 20 May, the Host Guest Ghost project hopes it will be a meditative experience, a ‘different’ way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

The upcoming event is a continuation of the series which the University Post covered earlier this year, (Read the article: Hot soup, art = nice, cosy, winter day) and thus far, the project has spanned five different artistic expressions and host, guest, ghost combinations.

Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk gets Sonning prize

The Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has won the 2012 Sonning Prize, writes the University of Copenhagen in a press release.

The prize is given for a contribution to European culture.

Orhan Pamuk's largest contribution to European culture »is his obvious challenge to the cultural boundaries that are drawn around it, and his clarification of the many possibilities that lie within crossing those boundaries«, the jury at the University of Copenhagen said in the press release.

National taboos

Top 10: Spring tips for guys, part 2

5. Take it easy in Dragør, and then do something really interesting

Dragør is a hidden and often forgotten gem. An old town that seems lost in time, it stands isolated on the end of Amager. Equipped with a beach, cafés and great ice cream it is a safe haven away from the city buzz. It is easy to get there by bike as it is just twelve kilometres from the city centre.

Cosy cafés? Come on! We are guys right?

Erasmus group seeks volunteers for refugees cause

The Erasmus Student Network (ESN) offers international students a chance to gather together in the name of collaboration, volunteerism...and some free sandwiches. The occasion: A march in aid of political refugees.

Saturday 12 May, and Sunday 13 May the ESN will host the SocialErasmus kick off event where this year’s activities are centered around ‘Out of the Camps Day’ – a city-wide event where NGOs and activist groups will protest rules on asylum-seekers in Denmark.

Menstrual blood art installation in basement

Menstruation. What is it about the word that makes us all (yes, even the women among us) feel awkward?

At a Feminist Materialisms conference held this past April, visiting researchers Miriam Wistreich and Alexandra Jönsson blended science and art in an attempt to lighten the mood around the dreaded 'time of the month' and explain its significance in gender discourse:

Photo Competition: Show us your room

Do you sleep on a huge bed – or a little sofa? Do you have loads of books or a wall of CDs? Do posters or photos decorate your walls?

We are curious! The picture can be of anything, as long as it's your room. Give the picture a name and a caption (a one sentence description of what the photo is) and send it to us for a chance to win NorthSide festival tickets. To ensure authenticity, the photo must, somehow, include the words 'University Post'.

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.