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Karen’s Minde Aksen has scooped the Audience Award – part of the Building of the Year Awards – at the CAFx Architecture Festival. The construction, an urban water catchment design able to handle 15000 cubic metres of stormwater, is located in Sydhavn – a place where “a very special grassroots spirit prevails, paired with wild […]

Earlier this year, the popular payment app MobilePay was relaunched. One of the updates was a function that when users requested money from someone, the request would disappear after seven days. Before the update, there was no expiration date. This update has proved incredibly unpopular and generated a windfall of complaints. MobilePay has therefore extended […]

Spread over ten days, over 70 art institutions in Greater Copenhagen and Malmö will host over 150 events and exhibitions for this year’s edition of Art Matter Festival. The programme including performances, music, visual arts, talks and workshops in which everyone can participate. It’s the first time Art Matter has run in its current form […]

It has been more than 20 years since anthropologist Hans Lucht set foot in Ghana for the first time. In 2002, as a young and curious researcher from Denmark, he went to a small coastal village called Senya Beraku to research canoe fishing.  During his fieldwork, he discovered that fishing in West Africa was collapsing. […]

Danes don’t seem to be interested in car subscription services. After investing a three-digit million sum, the Semler Group, which imports VW, Audi and Skoda, has decided to liquidat its subscription service, Dribe. Since 2017, a total of 8000 customers have used Dribe, which allows private and business users to lease a car on subscription […]

The role of agriculture in the state of Danish nature is one of the most important and impactful political debates in today’s climate-change policy. At the latest edition this weekend of Naturmoødet – an annual nature-themed political debate and knowledge-sharing conference attended by the most powerful figures in environmental legislation – agriculture was a central […]

The EU needs a small combat-ready force of cyber security specialists that can respond to hybrid threats aimed at Denmark and Europe, says Venstre party chairman and defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen. Poulsen stresses that the threat of cyber attacks has grown, will only get bigger, and will be aimed at several different layers of […]

“What is the cheapest ticket available for the show tonight?”  I enquired at the box office on my regular trip to London for some binge theatergoing. “£100 is our lowest price for a seat at the back of the stalls, with restricted view.“ “Excuse me? £100! Are you kidding me?“   “No. Woody Harrelson stars in the play, I’ll […]

Aarhus University has dropped all cooperation with Chinese companies in gene mapping, according to Radio4.dk. Vice-dean of the university Brian Vinter says the decision is not due to a specific incident, but to a growing concern that the Chinese partners are misusing the research results. “The small differences in our genome are what make you […]

In other regions and cities of Denmark, the problem is not as pronounced. While the proportion of young people who are renting has increased in Aalborg and Aarhus, the figures are not as steep as in the capital. Meanwhile, in Fyn’s biggest city Odense, there has been no significant rise in the number of renters. […]