Culture

Copenhagen in the lens of student from Montreal

Sarah Mongeau-Birkett shows us how Copenhagen looks through the eyes of a Canadian exchange student. In her project '25x7, a Danish adventure through my lens', she takes a photograph each day to document her stay

Fashion and fine dining on four hours sleep

Sleep is a luxury for student entrepreneur Tiffany Ng. She runs a business, networks with the Copenhagen in-crowd and still passes law exams with flying colours

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Student fights high prices with Fashion Week event

´Whacking the barrel´ for Fastelavn

The traditional Danish Fastelavn festival was enacted by international students from all over the world

Fastelavn for beginners

On Sunday, the Danes will dress their kids up, bash barrels with wooden sticks and eat cream cakes

Student fights high prices with Fashion Week event

One international student is tired of ridiculously overpriced restaurants and impossible exclusive guest lists. She has introduced the concept of guerilla dining to Copenhagen.

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Expensive Copenhagen means hard lifestyle choices

German sharpshooter targets bureaucrats

Hans Magnus Enzensberger used his Sonning Prize acceptance speech to lash out against European institutions

Where the art is

The University Post starts off the semester with a look at the good, the weird and the ugly in a whistle-stop tour of art on the University of Copenhagen campus

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Pissing on Panum: The whimsical world of campus art

Art: Opening of Colliderscope

Art and physics collide at Niels Bohr

Theatre: Robot boogie at Carlsberg

Start the new semester with a cultural boost, as robots dancers instead of beers debut on the Carlsberg brewery production line. The University Post reviews Steen Koerner’s new electric boogie performance ‘Human Robot’

Art and physics collide at Niels Bohr

A new light sculpture transmits live signals from the Large Hadron Collider experiment in Switzerland to Niels Bohr Institute's facade on Blegdamsvej

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God is sabotaging the Large Hadron Collider

God shuffles the cards for CERN

Student Café in January

The Student Café on Købmagergade is a must for new international students. Studenterhuset, as it is called in Danish, opens 8 January with International Café every Wednesday and Happy Hour on Fridays from 12-19. See the full January programme here.

Bottoms up to photo contest prize winners

The results of the University photo competition, »Copenhagen: I never saw that before« are in! Pavel Lukeš' picture of a bike wins the first prize of two CPH Cards from the Wonderful Copenhagen.

Second prize goes to a shot of a well-placed flag at World Out games, by Emma O'Callahan

Expensive Copenhagen means hard lifestyle choices

Copenhagen is one of the priciest cities in Europe. But instead of avoiding it, international students adapt

Danish farmers beat their pigs

The last two years have seen the number of cases of pig abuse increase fivefold. University of Copenhagen researcher blames a new system, which rewards the speedy transport of pigs to the slaughterhouse

Erasmus students adopt Danish drinking habits

International students in Copenhagen drink more than they do at home

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Stop before five, say health experts

Stop before five, say health experts

So Erasmus students drink a bit, and alcohol can have serious health consequences. But how much is too much?