It is now time to take the next step to ensure that AU staff will be able to access most systems with just one username in the future. As part of this project, PCs which are not connected to UNIAD and/or using Windows 10 will be transferred to UNIAD, and Windows 10 will be installed.

The senior management team at Aarhus University has formulated a set of principles for Campus 2.0 – the university of the future. The principles were approved at the Aarhus University Board seminar last week.

Health is now offering three new communication courses aimed at PhD students. The courses will teach the PhD students to communicate their research to a wider audience. All three courses will be held in September, and registration opens now.

Should researchers have unhindered access to health data? How can we contain fatal epidemics using research? These are the titles of Health's events at Denmark's Political Festival on Bornholm.

A 71-ton particle accelerator has been lifted into the new buildings in the coming National Centre for Particle Therapy at Skejby. From 2018, the national centre will provide highly specialised radiation therapy for cancer patients throughout Denmark.

Eigil Kjeldsen, professor of cancer cytogenetics at Aarhus University and consultant at Aarhus University Hospital, has just been awarded a higher doctoral degree in medicine.

Elections were held in May to the departmental forums at Health's five departments. The results of the election are now complete, and the newly elected members will take up their seats on the respective forums on 1 July 2017.

Aarhus University is initiating a six-year effort to strengthen education and research within computer science, IT and data science to meet society’s future demand for digitisation specialists. The number of students on these programmes will be doubled and the research activities and staffing of these programmes will be expanded. This effort represents the first step in an amibitous strategic digitisation initiative which will make a major mark on Aarhus University in coming years.

Over the coming years, Aarhus University will realise an ambitious multi-phase digitisation initiative which will help prepare researchers, students and the labour force for the digital transition of the future. On 9 June, the board approved the plans for the four action areas of the initiative and to the launch of the first action area in autumn 2017.