A new research project aims to develop a photocatalytic process that can transform the hard-to-degrade and harmful environmental toxins PFAS into harmless substances. This, however, is only the first step for the research group behind the new tech in a journey towards a world without environmental toxins.

Due to new Covid-19 restrictions and the spread of the pandemic, the international research conference ZEA has been moved to 3-5 May 2022. The conference focuses on new innovative opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the most efficient and sustainable way.

Aarhus University researchers are involved in a major international research project to develop new decision-making tools for renovation featuring sustainability certification. The tools will be developed and tested directly in the design and construction of Aarhus University's new campus, the University City, which is to be built on the old municipal hospital site.

Aarhus University’s research vessel Aurora is also an excellent communication platform.

The gluten-free bread market is growing, but the texture of bread is typically dry and the crumbs are non-cohesive and they stale rapidly. Researchers are working to improve the quality of the bread by studying its main component, namely the starch.

A common aspect of most manufacturing processes is to shape components by removing chips from materials surface. Now, researchers from Aarhus University have experimented to find the perfect cutting process.

The EU LivestockSense project is an important step towards a better understanding of individual farmer's attitudes towards the use of intelligent technologies in agriculture. The project focuses on pigs and poultry in five EU countries and in Israel, and now input from local farmers about their experiences with intelligent technologies in livestock farming will form the basis for mapping the technologies and live demonstrations at selected European pig and poultry farms.

The sustainable food solutions of the future should be found in the sea, according to two innovative startups, which are both taking part in an entrepreneurial program at Aarhus University. One of them cultivates microalgae biomass for the food industry, while the other creates food packaging material based on fish waste.

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Mogens H. Greve joins as Professor of Pedology and Digital Soil Mapping at the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University.

The EU has committed itself to being climate neutral by 2050. This goal is important, ambitious and, to put it mildly, so dispersed that it is hard to make heads or tails of it. The EU project, MERLIN, with a budget of just over EUR 22 million, will play an active role in the green transition in Europe. It will calculate the benefits of initiatives and bring together experience and relevant stakeholders for future initiatives, thus ensuring that focus is on initiatives that can actually make an impact.

Associate Professor Kasper Røjkjær Andersen has been granted a Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship for three years to study the structure and function of receptors and calcium decoders at the Department of Molecularbiology and Genetics, Aarhus University.

The Carlsberg Foundation has awarded almost DKK 98 million to basic research at Aarhus University. The humanities and social sciences have been particularly recognised. DKK 1.3 million has been be awarded to four researchers at the Faculty of Technical Sciences.

The GUDP has pledged funding of DKK 104 million to a total of 19 projects to strengthen the green development of the food sector. Eight of these are projects at the Faculty of Technical Sciences at AU.

In the engineering study programs, at Aarhus University and in society at large, the winds are blowing in the direction of the green transition. The same applies to the WestWind Challenge association, which works to promote the development of a more environmentally-friendly transport sector, headed by – among others – entertainer and electric car enthusiast, Jan Gintberg. 14 engineering students with an interest in the green transition were ready to contribute to this mission when WestWind challenge offered them a seat around the table one night in November.

Researchers from Aarhus University have received a grant of more than DKK 11 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a new project entitled "Temperature induced disease resistance - TEMPRES". The project will support the green transition in Denmark and the EU by studying plants' resistance to rust diseases and how this resistance is affected by temperature.

Using precipitation and elevation as key variables, machine learning models can predict the quantity of annual tile drainage discharge at national scale with a high accuracy. Determining the quantity of tile drainage discharge is of great importance for the design of constructed wetlands as a mitigation strategy.

The DAISY model was successfully tested for simulation of nitrate leaching through agricultural tile drainage system, crop N uptake, and soil water dynamics with a high accuracy.

A review of the historical data from seven CGIAR genebanks confirms that high seed viability has been maintained for many decades. However, deviations from optimum management procedures were revealed as well as a failure to collect as much data as expected.