Modern DNA technology now allows simple monitoring of the distribution of different fish species in remote Arctic areas. This is shown in a new research study just published in the journal “Diversity and Distribution”. The results open up major new perspectives for relatively easy tracking of climate change-induced changes in the Arctic sea.

Professor Doug Speed from Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics has received 2 mio € from the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grant for a ground-breaking research project in the development of novel statistical tools for classifying heterogeneous diseases based on genetic information. The new tools will potentially lead to a more widespread use of personalized medicine.

Robots, drones, autonomous boats and smart probes. A cellar at Aarhus University holds an impressive collection of technological inventions for polar research. Selected examples are on display to the public for the first time at the Steno Museum's winter holiday exhibition in mid-February.

New research suggests that crops have different potential for protein extraction in biorefining.

Two talented researchers from the Faculty of Technical Sciences have each received DKK 6 million from the Villum Young Investigator programme under the VILLUM FOUNDATION. Congratulations to Jo Philips from the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering and Pourya Forooghi from the Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering.

In collaboration with four small and medium-sized Danish companies, researchers from the Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering at Aarhus University have developed productivity and sustainability monitoring equipment to improve the performance of old production machinery. This technology can have the effect that companies with old machinery will be able to stay competitive in an ever more digitalised market.

At the CIGR World Congress in Japan in December, Professor Claus Grøn Sørensen from the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at Aarhus University was appointed as president of the organisation and honoured with a High Merit Award for his research into technologies for the intelligent agriculture of the future.

The results of a study on late blight show 100% resistance to one of the most important fungicides in potato production. Researchers find the development of the new variant of late blight worrying in relation to future control in Danish fields.

With a big bag of cash from the EU, Danish researchers can develop their proposals for a new digital infrastructure for agriculture. This will further boost the green transition of the sector.

There are many things to look out for if you want a sustainable Christmas tree this Christmas, here's one expert's take on what to choose.

Funded by DANIDA, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the FLYgene project organized two national stakeholder workshops in Kampala (Uganda) and Nairobi, (Kenya) in November. The workshops brought together the various actors and stakeholders along the insect-for-feed value chain including smallholder black soldier fly (BSF) farmers, large-scale BSF companies, feed processors, waste management firms, government agencies, private extension agents and researchers.

Aarhus University is currently developing two new degree programmes at AU Viborg, and from 2024 these will teach the labour force of the future about the green transition of agricultural and food production. Therefore, representatives from companies, educational institutions and government agencies were invited to give their suggestions on how the new study programmes should be structured.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded DKK 6 million to new technical research projects at Aarhus University. The grants are to “support basic research at the highest international level”.

START - Centre for Sustainable Agrifood Systems - invites researchers from all the Danish universities to join the START HUB collaboration. The aim is to ensure crucial knowledge-sharing, provide needed interdisciplinary collaboration across the universities and to accelerate the green transition of agrifood system.

Climate is changing, and this will affect future energy systems based on solar and wind. But how? A new research project at Aarhus University will focus on this with a Sapere Aude grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark.

In mid-November, Trine Nørgaard, an assistant professor at the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University, received DKK 2.8 million from the Inge Lehmann programme under Independent Research Fund Denmark. The money will be used to close-study Aeolian dust, and it may help to improve Greenlandic agriculture.

Buildings are responsible for a large percentage of anthropogenic carbon emissions. In any kind of sustainable future, this percentage must be reduced drastically. Fortunately, this is possible, but it requires research and development and closer collaboration across the sector, says Steffen Petersen, who is a new professor at the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at Aarhus University.

Eat barley for your health, the environment and the climate. That's the message from researchers at Aarhus University, who in a new project want to find out why barley doesn't have the same baking properties as wheat, and how this can be changed so that we can eat far more bread baked from barley in the future.

Mikkel Tamstorf is appointed interim Head of Department at Department of Ecoscience (ECOS) from 1 January 2023.

Niels Kanstrup wants to steer hunting and wildlife management towards a sustainable, lead-free future. A 35-year career as an advisor, researcher and active hunter, and a lifelong passion for nature, recently culminated in his defence of his doctoral dissertation at the Department of Ecoscience at Aarhus University.

A new Horizon Europe project called Wet Horizons wants to promote feasible and more ambitious legislation towards protecting and restoring European wetlands to increase the benefits to both climate change and biodiversity.

Good transport connections to Viborg, good food all day and a strong social environment around the study programme. A wealth of good ideas were up for discussion when around 40 upper secondary school students visited AU Viborg last week to give their input on how Aarhus University can create an attractive campus for future students.

Research into underwater communication is a vital part of our endeavour to better understand climate change, and it is in this context that Milica Stojanovic’s research plays an essential role.

Kunstig hud fyldt med elektroniske neuroner og synapser skal bane vejen for proteser, der for eksempel kan føle solens varme stråler, sandet mellem tæerne og måske endda smerten ved at falde og slå sit knæ. Nyt stipendiat skal være med til at gøre det muligt.

Turbulent flows play an important role in many engineering systems, but high computational costs still make it virtually impossible to simulate these flows accurately for complex cases like wind farms. A new project aims to solve this problem by developing a new approach to turbulence modelling.

1.5 degrees, 2 degrees or more? The Paris Agreement and the climate ambition of a carbon-neutral EU in 2050 have been put back by the war in Ukraine. Or have they? New research from Aarhus University shows that the very high gas prices currently experienced by the Eurozone are a very efficient driver for the green transition.

You wouldn’t think it, but the sewer can be a huge source of valuable resources in a future circular bioeconomic society. Massive flows of nutrients and potentially sustainable building blocks are currently going to waste in the world's treatment plants. An international team of researchers is going to change that.

Astronauts find it difficult to maintain a natural circadian rhythm and generally complain a lot about their sleep. Aarhus University's Center for Ear-EEG has developed a technology that can read the brain's electrical activity and map our sleep patterns. The technology, along with astronaut Andreas Mogensen, will travel to the International Space Station ISS to examine the differences between human sleep patterns on earth and in space.

On Monday 13 June, the Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center - CORC - was officially inaugurated at Aarhus University. Scientist, supporters, and collaborators of CORC came together to celebrate this special moment, and to raise their glasses to this unique, mission-driven frontrunner in lowering CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

Danish researchers are developing new electrical solutions for the transport sector. The aim is to reduce the climate footprint significantly, and the EU is investing DKK 45 million in the project.

Farshad Moradi, a new professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aarhus University, has been inspired by the brain in his work to develop electronic devices that can communicate with the brain on the brain’s own terms, and ideally without a battery.

The Danish National Research Foundation, the Carlsberg Foundation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation and the VILLUM Foundation will, together with top researcher Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, establish a pioneering research center called the Pioneer Center for Landscape Research in Sustainable Agricultural Futures (Land-CRAFT)

Pollen isn’t - atishoo! – just pollen. Some grasses are bad news for allergy sufferers, while others are completely harmless. Aarhus University has appointed one of the world's leading researchers in air-borne allergens, Carsten Ambelas Skjøth, to sequence pollen DNA and make real-time pollen counts to make life better for pollen-allergy sufferers.

Rasmus Ejrnæs, a senior researcher at the Department of Ecoscience at Aarhus University, has won the Danmarks Bedste Naturformidler 2022 award (Denmark's Best Nature Communicator 2022). The award was presented at this year's People’s Festival of Nature (Naturmødet), which took place in Hirtshals on 19-21 May.

In the world-wide project Tiny Earth, pupils at upper secondary schools, as well as university students and researchers, are working together to find solutions to a major shared challenge: antibiotic resistance. The project is also generating learning and motivation on several levels according to two of the participating school teachers and a Bachelor's degree student.

Software engineer Niloofar Yazdani has with new solutions for efficient data transmission made it more sustainable to transfer data from the Internet of Things. That is why she receives Aarhus University Research Foundation's PhD prize.

The cheapest, fastest and most cost-effective way to achieve the EU goal of climate neutrality by 2050 with a max. 1.5 degree temperature increase will entail a massive roll-out of solar, wind and electrolysers over the next many years. This was confirmed by Danish and German researchers in a new article in the scientific journal, Joule.

Innovation Fund Denmark has granted DKK 201 million to the research and innovation partnership Agri-FoodTure. Climate, sustainable agriculture and food production will thereby be the first of the four mission-driven green research and innovation partnerships launched by Innovation Fund Denmark.

Several Danish universities and companies have joined forces to create a common high-tech laboratory platform - FOODHAY. Through new research infrastructure, FOODHAY will contribute to developing the healthy and sustainable foods of the future as well as reducing food waste through advanced process and research equipment. So far, collaborations have been established with more than 90 Danish and international companies.

ODIN has reserved DKK 23.9 million for six new research projects that will pave the way for new drugs to treat a wide range of medical conditions – e.g. Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, diabetes, renal diseases and cancer.

The government's new relocation agreement means that the Faculty of Technical Sciences will establish a new, integrated education and research campus in Foulum near Viborg with up to 800-900 students. The vision is that Aarhus University's new campus in the future will be the centre for study programmes within green transition, veterinary medicine and primary food production in the western part of the country.

All eight universities in Denmark have joined forces on a new research centre that will create interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in Denmark and international partners. The new centre START - Centre for SusTainable AgRifood sysTems - will play a key role in the development of future solutions for green transition within agricultural and food systems.

Mirka Mølgaard Thorsteinsson at Department of Animal Science is awarded DKK 200.000 kr., which she will use for research in Holland, Norway and New Zealand.

A new Danida project headed by Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics (QGG) aims to improve the quantity and quality of Black Soldier Fly products through selective breeding in Kenya and Uganda. The project results are expected to lead to job creation opportunities and climate-friendly bio-waste management in a circular bio economy, and covers several UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Under the partnership name Arla Food for Health (AFH), four key players from both industry and academia are exploring potential health effects of dairy and dairy ingredients. Three new re-search projects have been selected to receive financing for 2022.

Researchers are working on a new digital solution to track changes in the quality of fresh fruit and vegetables in real-time. This solution can reduce food waste by informing companies digitally about quality changes and potential later losses.

Exceptionally promising. This is how an Arctic top researcher describes a probe that three engineer students have developed during a bachelor's project in collaboration with the Department of Mechanics and Production and the Department of Biology at Aarhus University. In autumn 2021, the probe passed the ultimate test under extreme Arctic conditions.

Former agrobiology student Niels Frederik Vestergård will recieve this year's IdaGaard Foundation's thesis award for his final thesis on the status of new resistance to succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors in Septoria in Denmark and Sweden.

Et EU projekt med deltagelse fra Aarhus Universitet skal udvikle nyt beslutningsværktøj, som kan hjælpe svine-producenten til at nedbringe forekomsten af halebid i besætningen.

I to nye økologi-projekter på AU Foulum sættes der fokus på bæredygtig slagtegriseproduktion med 100% lokalt produceret foder samt på kødkvalitet og kødets holdbarhed.

Aarhus Universitet står i spidsen for nyt GUDP-projekt ’KlimaKS’, som skal bidrage med nye værktøjer, der skal lette landmanden i bestræbelserne på at forebygge sygdomme hos malkekøerne. Det kommer til at gavne både køernes velfærd, landmandens økonomi og ikke mindst klimaet.

Aarhus University would like to congratulate all the newly graduated MSc and BSc in engineering students.

A previously abandoned patent from Aarhus University got new life in the hands of two visionary food enthusiasts, and together they started a company that is now based in Agro Food Park, north of Aarhus. IsoFirms dreams of fighting obesity with a food ingredient extracted from the stevia plant - and the entrepreneurial program EIT Food Seedbed at Aarhus University has supported them in their market entry.

It has taken up to 30 years to gather data, but now there’s enough. An international research team, with Danish participation, has just published a database in which it is possible to follow bees and other animals that pollinate 48 of the most widespread commercial crops. The database is open to everyone, and it may play a crucial role in understanding the factors that will affect the food production of the future as biodiversity becomes increasingly challenged.

Students and employees at Aarhus University will have the opportunity to invest in solar cells fitted on the rooftops of the university’s buildings. The project is part of an EU-funded project to enable citizens to take an active part in the green transition.

New biosensor technology shows the potential of becoming a rapid, non-invasive and cost efficient tool for evaluating freshness of several types of fish products, a research collaboration with participation from Aarhus University concludes. This can assist with the reduction of food waste and support the sustainability of the fish industry.

Scientific report on the Danish Redlist provides an overview of the most important habitats for red-listed species in Denmark.

A new research project will use renewable energy from local, privately owned wind turbines to improve the efficiency of Danish biogas production at large scale. The target is a 100 per cent green gas grid.

Perennial biomass crops have a moderate emission of nitrous oxide compared to annual crops despite a high supply of nitrogen. At this year's virtual Plant Congress, you have the opportunity to learn about how perennial grass for biorefining can be cultivated with moderate emissions of nitrous oxide.

How does the conversion of grass to e.g. corn emissions of nitrous oxide? That and much more, you have the opportunity to hear the answer to this year's virtual Plantekongres.

Drones and artificial intelligence are used in the Innovation Fund project ReDoCO2 to develop a decision-making tool for determining which peatland soils can provide the greatest climate gain with lower greenhouse gas emissions. The tool contributes to the climate goal of reducing greenhouse gases and the green transition of agriculture.

Through research and education, the Faculty of Technical Sciences will continue to create fertile ground for an even greener and even more digital transformation of society. This is part of the main message in the strategy, which is now in place, and which in the years up to 2025 will set the direction for the faculty.

With Carbon Farming's various cultivation initiatives, you can remove CO2 from the atmosphere and achieve carbon storage in plants and soil. At this year's virtual Plantekongres, you have the opportunity to learn more about what Carbon Farming is, how to achieve carbon storage and not least, carbon in an EU perspective.

New cereals with a health-promoting effect may in the future help to prevent obesity and diabetes. At this year's virtual Plantekongres, you have the opportunity to learn about how researchers have developed a new grain variety through special breeding techniques, as well as hear more about the health-promoting possibilities in the cereal crops of the future.

Plant residues are one of the sources of nitrous oxide in agriculture, in fact they account for approx. 10% of the total emission of nitrous oxide from Danish agriculture. At this year's virtual Plantekongres, you have the opportunity to become wiser about the importance of plant residues and nitrous oxide emissions. Results from the project ResidueGas show, that there is a big difference between different types of plant residues.

With Carbon Farming, the goal is to remove CO2 from the atmosphere through targeted cultivation measures and achieve carbon storage in plants and soil. At this year's virtual Plantekongres, you have the opportunity to learn more about what Carbon Farming is, how to achieve carbon storage and not least, how to document the effect via the MRV concept.

Biochar increases carbon storage in the soil and can also affect the soil's fertility and greenhouse gas emissions. At this year's virtual Plantekongres, you have the opportunity to learn more about what Biochar is, what effect it has on the build up of carbon in the soil, and how it acts as a climate tool.

For the first time, we can now tell the difference between a wide range of plastic types and thereby separate plastics according to their chemical composition. This is absolutely ground-breaking and it will increase the rate of recycling of plastics immensely. The technology has already been tested at pilot scale and it will be implemented at an industrial scale in spring 2022.

Researchers from the Department of Agroecology have received a grant of almost DKK 3 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a new project named “CoreEEs”. The project will support the green transition of agriculture by studying enzyme activity and the micro-biological compositions in the soil to find future ways to produce more biomass with lower greenhouse gas emissions.

It is becoming increasingly urgent to find crops that are resilient to climate changes. The phrase climate changes reflect many stress factors, and can e.g. consist of a combination of factors such as increased temperatures, drought and changes in the composition of the atmosphere. But how do crops respond to this type of stress combinations? What happens when wheat, the world's most important crop, is exposed to more than one type of stress? Lamis Abdelhakim from the Department of Food Science, Aarhus University, has investigated this as part of her Ph.D. studies.

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.

Jonas Teilmann

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.