Tag: Aarhus
Danish news Round-Up: American military area takes up residence in Aarhus Harbor for a month
East Jutland Police have confirmed that from 13 January to 12 February a temporary military area will be set up at Aarhus Harbor to enable deliveries of US military vehicles and equipment. A cargo ship, the ARC Independence, will deliver 600 items of military equipment along with vehicles – all earmarked for onward travel to…
Culture Round-Up: TV2’s local Copenhagen news media will take a more cosmopolitan point of view
TV 2 Lorry, the Frederiksberg-based broadcaster that has served the 34 municipalities in Denmark’s capital region (and beyond) with news since the early 1990s, has changed its name to TV2 Kosmopol as of today. All its logos, facades and signs have been duly changed, along with its website to tv2kosmopol.dk, but the biggest change is…
Culture Round-Up: TV2’s local Copenhagen news media will take a more cosmopolitan point of view
TV 2 Lorry, the Frederiksberg-based broadcaster that has served the 34 municipalities in Denmark’s capital region (and beyond) with news since the early 1990s, has changed its name to TV2 Kosmopol as of today. All its logos, facades and signs have been duly changed, along with its website to tv2kosmopol.dk, but the biggest change is…
CPH Airport has high hopes for 2023, when passengers will return
On a tear in TorontoSpeaking of destinations, Icelandic low-cost airline Play has announced that it opens new routes to Canada from Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg and Billund. The routes will include a stopover in Reykjavik en route to John C Munro Hamilton International Airport in Toronto. The routes are scheduled to open on 22 June and…
CPH Airport has high hopes for 2023, when passengers will return
On a tear in TorontoSpeaking of destinations, Icelandic low-cost airline Play has announced that it opens new routes to Canada from Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg and Billund. The routes will include a stopover in Reykjavik en route to John C Munro Hamilton International Airport in Toronto. The routes are scheduled to open on 22 June and…
Danish news: Lazy shoppers only have themselves to blame if their chili mayo is moldy, claims DR
That seems to be DR calling people who buy chili mayonnaise “lazy”. Listing the ingredients – in fairness there are seven – it warned: “If you’ve been lazy, watch out – at least if you’ve shopped at Netto.” Apparently, the Big Farm Boys version (230 grams; expiration date 11/22/2023) has been recalled due to a…
Danish News Round-Up: The rising costs of parents who are forced to stay at home to care for their children
Absenteeism costs society dearly and becomes a “desperate situation”, warns professor Mikael Thastum from Aarhus University, an expert on the subject, to DR. However, it is not a truancy problem, rather a failure to cater for children with special needs and disabilities together with a growing tendency to exclude problem children. Over 15,000 parents are…
Danish news: Stop! There were no bank robberies in 2022
In mid-December, CPH told POST how there were only two banks left in Denmark with tellers. They are both branches of Danske Bank and are located in Copenhagen and Aarhus, and TV2 was able to demonstrate that both tend to have very long queues. But the frustration of pensioners who never got a NemID account…
Large stadium plans on the way in Aarhus
After many years of discussions, Denmark’s second largest city is finally getting a much-needed stadium upgrade. Superliga side AGF Aarhus’ new stadium project, ‘Arena of the forest’ will provide Denmark with a state-of-the-art 24,000 all-seater that will boost the country’s stadium portfolio and tournament hosting capacity. The stadium will be designed by London-based architecture firm…
Outside INnovation: Jutland collection
Wheels down, Aarhus-bound. I skip the bridge, but the Great Belt still needs to be navigated. I sprint to the boat. Dark skies greet the ferry as the cars spill out into the large Jutland city. I have moderator duty for a collection of Danish and German organizations that merge electronics, satellite and drone data…
Denmark down to the last two banks!
When Queen Elizabeth II died, many Britons visited royal buildings, saying they wanted to pay their respects and be “part of history”. Well, now the Danish public has a chance to say the same by taking part in the most archaic of transactions: withdrawing money from a bank teller for the very last time. According…
Helsinki Biennale 2023 announces preview list of artists and titles: New trends may emerge
Krysa, which works with both people and other entities, has invited five art, research and technology entities for curatorial collaboration: Critical Environmental Data, Museum of Impossible Forms, TBA21–Academy, ViCCA @ Aalto Arts and AI Entity. Comprised of more than 50% new commissions and site-specific work, the first announced participants are: Matti Aikio (Fl), Dineo Seshee…
Copenhagen and Aarhus among Europe’s best party cities
They say Christmas is a time for giving and receiving. Well, with ‘The Little Mermaid’ and Nyhavn, Copenhagen receives many tourists, and when Christmas approaches, the Danish capital knows how to give that little bit more. According to Holidu’s list, which ranked the 100 most festive European citiesCopenhagen is number five. And once again, no…
The insufficient Danish language
The Danes will spend a lot of time telling you that English doesn’t have a word for ‘hygge’. And it’s true, at least in British English, that we don’t have a word for this particular indefinable metaphysical state of well-being where one is happy, content and secure. Although it makes sense to me that we…
Fewer exposed areas in Denmark
Ta-ta, Tingbjerg The nine areas remaining on the hardcore list are: Mjølner Park, Copenhagen Tåstrupgård, Høje-Taastrup Vollsmose, Odense Nørager/Søstjernevej, Sønderborg Stengårdsvej, Esbjerg Sundparken, Horsens Skovvejen/Skovparken, Kolding Bispehaven, Aarhus Gellerupparken/Toveshøj, Aarhus Tingbjerg/Utterslevhuse, an area that has been on the hardcore list every year bar one since 2010, is no longer on the list. While Askerød (Greve)…
Danish news: Close to 20 teenagers arrested for selling hash in Christiania in just 80 days
An increasing number of young people, generally aged 15-18, are selling weed on Pusher Street in Christiania. Between September 1 and November 21, Copenhagen Police arrested 17 such people for selling hashish, according to Berlingske. Fear that they cannot escape the environment“Someone has released a handbrake,” noted Police Inspector Tommy Laursen. “In the past, Christians…
WC 2022: Humble Hummel
In September, Danish sports brand Hummel unveiled toned-down football kits for the Danish team’s World Cup campaign as a protest against the event being held in Qatar. The best we have?Of course, this World Cup has been very controversial due to forced labour, slavery and deaths. More than 6,500 migrant workers have reportedly died in…
International Round-Up: Had the stray missiles been Russian, the consequences would have been serious, says acting Danish foreign minister
The acting foreign minister, Jeppe Kofod, did not mince words after the news that a Polish farm was hit by missiles on Tuesday, killing two residents. “Together with Poland, we are part of the world’s strongest military alliance, NATO,” he told TV2. “A security issue for Poland is a security issue for all of us.”…
Science Round-Up: Study finds bias against female politicians in Denmark
The latest election represented a historic moment for women’s representation in Danish politics, where the proportion of 44 percent of elected women in the Folketing exceeded 40 percent for the first time. However, this is most likely the result of women’s sheer willpower in a society that continues to stack the deck against them, a…
National Round-Up: landmark verdict for children conceived with Danish sperm donors
The Department of Immigration backed upShe claimed that the child should have Danish citizenship because the law states that a child has the right to citizenship “if the father, mother or co-mother is Danish”. But her position was rejected by the Department of Immigration at the time, and that position has now been backed up…
New Citizen loses mandate after election night drama
Holds the mandateNB leader Pernille Vermund has stated that the party was to meet to discuss Theisen’s future with the party after she refused to “take responsibility for solving the problem”. But before that could happen, Theisen announced that she had left the party and become independent… taking the NB mandate with her, much to…
Danish Church to do away with archaic gender rules
Whistleblower scheme closedThe Equal Treatment Act was established in April 1978 and prohibits discrimination between men and women in relation to employment conditions. A few months later in July 1978, however, a rule was adopted that made the Danish Church and other religious bodies. The meeting in Aarhus also discussed the establishment of a whistleblower…
Climate summary: Could Denmark soon have a new Swedish nuclear power plant as a neighbour?
Plans to build a new nuclear power plant near the decommissioned Barsebäck nuclear power plant are taking shape in Skåne in southern Sweden – an area just over 20 km across the Øresund from Copenhagen. For decades, the Danish government tirelessly campaigned for its closure due to its proximity to Denmark. But now it appears…
Talk about sustainable innovation with the DLG chair
Management thinkers often use the metaphor of ‘snow melting at the edge of an organization’ to highlight the phenomena whereby top management in large organizations cannot see threats or change happening quickly enough. It is often said that people who work close to customers in the field – such as engineers, sales and project managers…
Olafur Eliasson contributes an installation to the Qatar exhibition as part of his World Cup preparations
The caption is there every time a famous person is linked to Qatar hosting the 2022 World Cup, which begins on November 20. From David Beckham to former Danish compatriot Peter Schmeichel, who confirmed earlier this week that he will work for Qatari broadcaster BeIN Sports, the condemnation can be read between the lines. And…
Science Round-Up: ‘Baby talk’ is a universal phenomenon and similar across languages, study shows
A joint study from Aarhus University and the University of York shows that the way of communicating with babies and toddlers, child-directed-speech (CBT), is a global phenomenon with many identical aspects that are shared by many languages. What is known as CBT generally involves high-pitched, slow-paced and animated speech. PhD student Christopher Martin Mikkelsen Cox,…
Young climate activists organize three days of protests all over Denmark
The young climate activist group The Green Youth Movement will hold demonstrations in six cities over the next three days. On Thursday there will be protests in Vejle and Aarhus, on Friday in Randers and Aalborg and on Saturday in Silkeborg and Odense. It will reportedly be the Green Youth Movement’s largest movement to date.…
Sports Round-Up: Danish fans stay away from the WC in Qatar
Different in Euro 2024Danish fans could have been allocated 3-5,000 tickets for each match, but at present only an average of 700 tickets per game have been sold. Should Denmark qualify for Euro 2024 in Germany, the DBU said it would again take on a greater role in the distribution of tickets to Danish fans.…
Copenhagen voted best city for bargain hunters
No good offers in the BalkansAfter Copenhagen, Riga, Amsterdam, Dublin and Budapest made up the top 5, while Oslo, Porto, London, Rome and Helsinki completed the top 10. Denmark’s second largest city, Aarhus, was ranked 25th. Several cities in the Balkan region finished at the bottom of the rankings, with Zagreb ranking last after Sofia,…
First foreign fighter convicted of treason
Another case on the horizonThe Danish-Palestinian was on the run for six years before he was imprisoned in Turkey in 2020 and deported back to Denmark. El-Ali traveled from Denmark to Syria in 2013 to fight on behalf of IS – something he has admitted to doing until 2017. He also admitted to trying to…