Preparations for the upcoming workplace assessment (WPA) are in full swing around the university. And also at Health, where the local website, advisory group and timetable for the process are now ready.

Aarhus University will put leadership in focus during the MatchPoints Seminar on 23-25 May 2019. Meet Arnold Bakker, Crown Prince Frederik, European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager and a variety of other researchers, leaders and politicians – and benefit from their insights on good leadership. Registration opens on 14 January 2019.

Aarhus University has joined a new alliance with five other research-intensive European universities.

Johan Palmfeldt has received DKK 7.7 million from the John & Birthe Meyer Foundation. The grant money has been invested in a new piece of equipment – an advanced mass spectrometer – which can analyse biological functions at cellular level to see the role they play in diseases such as heart failure, diabetes and hereditary brain disorders.

The Danish Cancer Society is donating DKK 20 million from Denmark’s Beat Cancer 2018 appeal to the establishment of the Danish Cancer Society National Center for Optimal Outcomes for All – COMPAS. Clinical Associate Professor and Consultant Jan Maxwell Nørgaard from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital is part of the management of the new research centre.