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Denmark’s largest civil engineering research grant aims to transform the built environment

A one billion Danish kroner grant aims to revolutionise how we build and rebuild the world around us. Aarhus University is spearheading two central initiatives in the project: Design of regenerative buildings and strategies to extend the lifespan of what we have already built.

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Cleaner water, new answers to climate change and more innovation. The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has designated a new…

07 November 2025 - Faculty of Technical Sciences

Tenure Track assistant professor Guillaume Ramstein from Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics (QGG) has just received a grant of 7,2 mill DKK…