The chairmanship of the external co-examiners across Denmark’s health science study programmes has decided to implement a new digital system for the allocation of co-examiners. The system will first and foremost ensure that the procedure in future lives up to the Examination Order.

This year, more than 3,000 hopeful young people have applied to Health's study programmes. Almost a third of them have AU as their first priority – which is the highest proportion ever. This means the health science study programmes remain very popular. Almost two out of three applications to Health are to the medical degree programme.

Søren Dinesen Østergaard is a new professor at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Department for Depression and Anxiety Disorders. Here he will primarily conduct research into measurement-based treatment of mental disorders.

The conciliation board has postponed the labour dispute, and the strikes are now scheduled to begin on 22 April at the beginning of the day (00:00 hours), and the lockout is set to begin on 28 April at the beginning of the day (00:00 hours).

Lene Vase is a new Doctor of Medical Science at Aarhus University, Health. Her research into placebo effects is targeted towards medical doctors, researchers and pharmaceutical companies who want to test and increase the effect of their treatment and of new forms of treatment.

The election for the occupational health and safety organisation at AU has now been completed successfully. Both new and experienced candidates have been elected as occupational health and safety representatives, and the enormous support for the election has pleased Rector Brian Bech Nielsen, chairman of the Main Occupational Health and Safety Committee.

More and more young people are submitting applications to AU's IT and engineering degree programmes, and there is a general increase in applications across the university's four faculties, according to the final statement relating to quota 2 applications.