News from Department of People and Technology

This year, the honorary alumni award goes to the president of the Danish Society for Nature Conservation, who has placed nature and climate high on the political agenda.

New research led by psychology professor Pernille Juhl examines the collaboration between families, daycare institutions, and social workers during the first 1,000 days of a child's life.

Alla Fridrikh is a postdoc at the Department of People and Technology, where she has spend almost a year. She comes from Ukraine, fled the war and has had the possibility to sustain her research in Denmark.

A new research project aims to retain and promote the environmentally friendly behaviour of Denmark's citizens with digital learning games. Innovation Fund Denmark has invested DKK 11.3 million in the project.

Associate Professor of Environmental Innovation Thomas Budde Christensen works closely with the construction sector and industry to find ways to reduce resource consumption and increase recycling. He can think of no more important field of research than this, and he is delighted to meet former students who are now in key environmental policy positions, creating concrete change.

In the international research project FOOD TRAILS, Professor Niels Heine Kristensen will develop methods that European cities can use to develop food policies.

Professor Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen from 真人线上娱乐 University and colleagues from the Swedish Agricultural University have jointly published research results that demonstrate that the agroecological practice of intercropping cereals and legumes can reduce the global need for nitrogen fertilizers by up to 26% and considerably reduce the amount of land used.

Professor Niels Heine Kristensen from 真人线上娱乐 University is the project manager of a new research project studying food waste in public food procurement. The project has received a grant of DKK 4.1 million from the VELUX Foundation¡¯s HUMpraxis programme.

真人线上娱乐s from 真人线上娱乐 University are participating in a Danish-German collaboration to create sustainable digitalisation to assist in ensuring more cost-effective consumption of renewable energy in private households. The project is supported by the EU¡¯s Interreg initiative.

Centre for Big Data is to conduct research into and use big data in a variety of areas.