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Food

If we are to feed the growing population, we need to make food production more sustainable.
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Green transportation

The transportation sector is emitting more and more CO2 from cars, trucks, airplanes and shipping. To reverse this trend, more of the known solutions and technologies need to come into play.

Artificial intelligence

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have never been faster. The technology seems to hold almost unlimited potential, and it is hard to imagine where it will all end.

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Scientists warn of increased mpox transmission

International researchers, including from DTU National Food Institute, warn that the ongoing mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the potential to spread across borders more rapidly. The mpox virus has mutated, and the new variant, clade 1b, has become more infectious.

Around the world glaciers are melting at an alarming rate

The world's glaciers have been decimated by global warming over the past 25 years, according to new research to which DTU has contributed. The research estimates that 273 gigatons of ice - per year - have melted glaciers in Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Iceland, and, especially, in the Arctic and Antarctic.

DTU's new strategy must be built on employee input

DTU is to have a new strategy that sets the university's long-term goals and the direction for the coming strategy period. DTU's Board of Governors is in charge of designing the new strategy.

DTU's supercomputer ensures our data sovereignty

At a time when the Danish government wants to make us less dependent on tech giants, DTU's national supercomputer is now opening up for broader use of its secure data storage. At Computerome, data is securely fenced in on Danish soil.
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Current topics

Through a number of current topics, we focus on how DTU's research creates value for society and people and delivers technical solutions to the major societal challenges.

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28 February 2025

President: ‘Come to the Open House at DTU on 6 March’

At DTU we believe that we can do more together. And at DTU, you join a strong academic and social community. Because we have a lot to share - from new solutions to a student life you'll never forget. Together we create Europe's best engineering education. Find out more at the Open House on 6 March. We look forward to seeing you!
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University affairs

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04 February 2025

University presidents: We will harm something precious if the Bachelor of Engineering programmes are reformed together with the Professional Bachelor programmes

Nothing indicates that shortening the Bachelor of Engineering programme will improve it. On the contrary, we risk harming something precious to the disadvantage of Danish industry and future graduate engineers, according to the presidents of four Danish universities.

03 February 2025

International students choose DTU for its high academic standards and flexible programmes

New exchange and master students from the US, Mexico and Ecuador share their reasons for choosing DTU and their positive experiences during intro week, where they have had the opportunity to get to know the study environment through academic and social activities.

09 January 2025

New research centre to build knowledge to solve large-scale PFAS pollution

University collaboration in a new PFAS research centre will provide research and knowledge on how authorities can prevent, contain and clean up extensive PFAS pollution.
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Events

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mar

Open Lunch Talk Seminar

20. mar 12:00 - 13:00

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mar

Lunch seminar Center for Absolute Sustainability

20. mar 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar on Absolute sustainability

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mar

PhD Defence by Yannick Patrice Didion

20. mar 13:00 - 16:00 | “Alternative, green downstream routes for extraction and separation of modified polyhydroxyalkanoates obtained by bacterial fermentation”

21

mar

Aurelia Pereira Gabellini will defend her PhD thesis

21. mar 13:00 - 16:00 | Aurelia Pereira Gabellini, DTU Aqua, will defend her PhD thesis, “Ecological Connectivity in the Atlantic Ocean: Past, Present and Future”.
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