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Guide: Festivals in and around Copenhagen
As soon as the sun is out, Copenhagen comes alive. Staying in the city over the summer gives us many opportunities, such as celebrating at some of the various festivals. Already this week on 31 May Distortion begins, launching the festival season on a grand scale. The festival takes place in different parts of Copenhagen. For example, on Friday the streets of Vesterbro will be filled with music. No matter if you have a summer internship, summer school, or are on a study break, here is an overview of where to be in and around Copenhagen over the next few months:
02 Jun 2023
Permaculture gardeners want to defy business school norm of neat green lawns
Raised beds with berries and vegetables, wildflowers and professors with wheelbarrows and rakes – it might not be the typical image of a business school – but that could all change in the future. CBS faculty members Isabel Fróes and Maribel Blasco’s idea of creating a permaculture garden at CBS has finally set down roots. On a piece of land next to Kilen, they want to build a community around permaculture principles and rethink how the green spaces of the campus can be used. “It gives us a lot of energy and meaning,” says Maribel Blasco.
31 May 2023
Minister visits CBS: “Higher education policy has been hijacked by immigration policy agendas. I would like to turn that around.”
Stakeholders from CBS voiced their concerns and questions when the Minister for Higher Education and Science Christina Egelund visited CBS on Monday as part of her tour of Danish universities before negotiations for the university reform are finalised. The minister hopes for more international students, a fresh start to lifelong learning partnerships – and an end to hijacking the education policy.
26 May 2023
Three international students create their own podcast Matter – on life and love, living abroad, travelling – and many laughs
Three friends studying at CBS decided to share their stories, advice and thoughts by launching a new podcast called Matter.
25 May 2023
Academic Books closes stores as turnover plummets – “There won’t be a campus bookstore if you don’t do anything”
The non-profit bookstore and CBS creation Academic Books has lost 30% of its revenue in the last five years. “If this goes on, in four or five years there will be no bookstore at CBS,” says Kenneth Golubov, Administrative Director of SL Fonden, under which Academic Books is run.
22 May 2023
Alternative research presentation: write a report that your parents would understand
Katinka Bjørndal Thomsen wanted to write a report about circular supply chains related to smartphones and computers that everyone could read and benefit from – including her parents.
16 May 2023
On the hunt with CBS Hunting Club – a different kind of game
Sports, culture, business and academia – CBS student societies offer it all, but only one student society shoots to kill. Since 2012, CBS Hunting Club has introduced students to a tradition dating back perhaps further than any other human pastime. CBS WIRE tagged along with the newcomers to see what training for a hunting licence is like.
10 May 2023
Learning from the climate laggards – Green Business Forum aims to take sustainability beyond the classroom
Sustainability is “a bit like teenage sex. We all like to say we’re doing it, but few people actually are and those who are do it poorly”. At least according to Morten Westergaard, head of climate and energy from Middelfart Municipality and panellist at the Green Business Forum at CBS. But talking can also be the start of something. For the first Green Business Forum held at CBS, students, faculty and business professionals teamed up to share ideas and address pressing questions that can push the green transition.
02 May 2023
“Ambitious”, “analytical” and “team player” – CBS’ new AI tool will tell you to keep these words out of job ads
Can an AI tool improve diversity? That, at least, is the idea behind Develop Diverse, a new tool being implemented at CBS to attract a more diverse pool of candidates to job postings. The programme scans job ads for biased words and suggests more inclusive alternatives. According to Sofie Gottlieb, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lead, it has proven to increase the number of qualified applicants.
27 Apr 2023
CBS BIO master’s student hopes her art will spark an interest in science
Science can be difficult to comprehend. Master’s student Maja Völker is creating eye-catching paintings with scientific motifs that capture the imagination and will be exhibited at Villa Kultur on Saturday 29 April.
26 Apr 2023
CBS Tech Day: students want more sustainability in their education
Sustainability is everywhere. It applies to everybody, to our clothes, energy, water – and much more. This topic was also the focus of CBS Tech Day, a technology-focused conference organised by CBS students, who agreed that sustainability should be discussed more at their business school.
21 Apr 2023
PhD panel debate: focus on your PhD – the rest comes later
How do you best disseminate your PhD research? At a PhD panel debate, the panelists all agreed: Don’t. Not yet anyway. Give your all to your research and dissertation and concern yourself with becoming a good scholar instead.
16 Apr 2023
5 lessons to learn from case competitions
Even if competing in case competitions is not your passion, you can still learn a lot about case solving for university or as part of a recruitment process.
05 Apr 2023
Fears of espionage and data privacy breaches – CBS bans TikTok, recommends students stay away
CBS joins the increasing number of public institutions banning TikTok. Due to the risk of sensitive user data – and CBS data – being compromised, the platform is no longer allowed on official devices, unless there is a legitimate business need. Morten Ingvard Falck, Chief Information Security Officer at CBS, also recommends that students stop using the app.
04 Apr 2023
UN club to bring Model United Nations conference to Copenhagen
Denmark has no Model UN conference. But the students in CBS United Nations are planning to change that. Next year, they want to bring the conference, where students from around the world simulate the workings of the UN, to Copenhagen.
03 Apr 2023
University is a great time to start a company – use it as your playground
At university, you have the security of receiving your student grant (SU) as well as a plethora of opportunities to get help from teachers, other students and Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship. This makes university one of the best times to start a company, according to Senior Programme Manager at CSE Christopher Trunk-Black and Frederik Riber Larsen, who is a master’s student at CBS and founder of the company Arriber.
30 Mar 2023