While thousands of students and employees are denied access to the university, an interdisciplinary task force is busy working with the teaching staff to find out which courses can be reorganised and held remotely, and which must be postponed. Here you can get an update on their work and find the current recommendations for teaching staff.

It all began with the cancellation of all theoretical teaching for medical students on the Master’s degree programme. Moments later, the whole of Denmark and all physical teaching at the university shut down, leaving the studies administration facing a massive task. Head of Studies Administration at Health, Anna Bak Maigaard, has kept a diary during a week that turned everything upside down..

Two of the spring’s major events at Aarhus University – the MatchPoints Seminar and the Festival of Research - have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Associate Professor Ulrika Enemark from Aarhus University’s Department of Public Health receives a little over DKK ten million from Danida towards a research project that will provide new knowledge about the needs and potential for the development of health care for elderly people in lower-middle income countries such as Ghana.

Associate Professor Gustavo Nascimento from Aarhus University is being honoured with an international award in recognition of his impressive research contribution within the dental, oral and craniofacial field.

What should you do if you get sick while you are working from home? What do you do if you cannot work to the same extent because your children are home as well? And will it still be possible for you to take holiday? You can find the answers to these questions and more in a Q&A for employees at Aarhus University in connection with the closure of the university.

Health researchers now have the opportunity to apply for three months' salary for a potential PhD student who can plan and develop an interdisciplinary PhD project. Only researchers who join up with a colleague from another of Health’s departments can apply for the funds.

The current corona situation means that record numbers of Danes will be working from home for a while. This makes us even more vulnerable to cyber criminals, and AU has already registered an increase in the number of phishing emails we receive. So please be careful when you work from home.