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Week 4 / NR. 1 - 2022

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		First department relocates to the University City Molecular Biology and Genetics is the first department to move into the University City. >>>

		The campus-centred university is at the core of AU's institutional plan The parties behind the political agreement on "more and better educational opportunities throughout Denmark" have now received institutional plans from the eight Danish universities. >>>

		WPA2022: It's time to evaluate your workplace In Week 9, it will again be time to conduct a workplace assessment at AU – the so-called WPA (APV in Danish). Here you can read more about the process. >>>

	Research

		European Research Council awards DKK 22 million to two Nat researchers Jonas Elm (Chemistry) and the upcoming group leader of DANDRITE, Taro Kitazawa, will each receive approx. DKK 11 million from the ERC for ground-breaking research projects. >>>

		Interdisciplinary team will elucidate the rules of RNA folding A new consortium, COFOLD, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, aims to elucidate the rules of RNA folding in order to design RNA molecules for applications in medicine and synthetic biology. >>>

		Plants don’t have enough animals to spread their seeds Around half of the world’s plant species rely on animals to spread their seeds. A new international study has shown that, as a consequence of the biodiversity loss of birds and mammals, these plants’ ability to adapt to climate change has fallen by 60%. >>>

		The Danish Young Academy is looking for the research environment of the year 2022 Good research environments make research better. This is the basic premise behind a new award introduced by the Danish Young Academy. Junior researchers can now nominate their own research environment. >>>

	NEWS ABOUT STAFF AND GRANTS


	Associate professor Marianne Glasius has been awarded the 2021 Aerosologist Award. You can now apply for funding from the AUFF.

	IT


	Limited IT during the weekend of 5 and 6 February. Skype for Business is moving to Teams.

	Read also

		Proposed new travel policy encourages less and more climate-friendly work travel AU’s revised travel policy proposed a variety of new climate-friendly measures and encourages staff to think twice before travelling for work. >>>

		Interested in communicating your research to a general audience? As a researcher, you are now able to sign up to give a lecture at ‘Book a Researcher’ – an initiative presented as part of the Festival of Research, which gives everyone the opportunity to receive a free visit from a researcher during the week beginning 25 April. >>>

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