University of Copenhagen
Wednesday, 5 June 2024 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
Reading Time: 2 minutes
The Royal Library © flickr.com – Eric Mueller/cc-by-sa-2.0
🔊 Listen to this Post
The University of Copenhagen (
Danish : Københavns Universitet, KU) is a
public research university in
Copenhagen, Denmark . Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in
Scandinavia after
Uppsala University .
The University of Copenhagen consists of six different faculties , with teaching taking place in its four distinct campuses, all situated in Copenhagen. The university operates 36 different departments and 122 separate research centres in Copenhagen, as well as a number of museums and botanical gardens in and outside the Danish capital. The University of Copenhagen also owns and operates multiple research stations around Denmark, with two additional ones located in Greenland . Additionally, The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the public hospitals of the Capital and Zealand Region of Denmark constitute the conglomerate Copenhagen University Hospital .
Bishop's House to the left and University of Copenhagen to the right © flickr.com - jimg944/cc-by-2.0
As of October 2022, 10 Nobel laureates and 1 Turing Award laureate have been affiliated with the University of Copenhagen as students, alumni or faculty. Alumni include one
president of the United Nations General Assembly and at least 24
prime ministers of Denmark .
Read more on
University of Copenhagen and
Wikipedia University of Copenhagen (
Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State -
Weather report by weather.com -
Global Passport Power Rank -
Travel Risk Map -
Democracy Index -
GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank -
Global Competitiveness Report -
Corruption Perceptions Index -
Press Freedom Index -
World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index -
UN Human Development Index -
Global Peace Index -
Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index ). Photos by Wikimedia Commons. If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at
comment@wingsch.net . Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.
VIDEO
Recommended posts:
[caption id="attachment_203705" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Quartieri Settecenteschi in Foggia © panoramio.com - trolvag/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Apulia is a region of Italy, located in the southern peninsular sect...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_230170" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Hart House and Soldier's Tower © Taxiarchos228/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in ...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_220541" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Municipal Palace © Steven Craig/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]San Pedro Sula is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest cor...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_164816" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Varsity Polo 2013 - Oxford vs Cambridge © Andreas Polo/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Polo (Persian: chogān) is a team sport played on horseback. The objective...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_216741" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Museumsgården © panoramio.com - Carsten Wiehe/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Læsø is the largest island in the North Sea bay of Kattegat, and is located 19 k...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_172007" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Lipton sale/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The cuisine of the United States reflects its history. The European colonization of the Americas yielded the introd...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_161046" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Brewery Gleumes © DER UNFASSBARE[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Krefeld, also known as Crefeld until 1929, is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located northwest of D...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_228242" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Diego Delso/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Vanha kauppahalli (english: Old Market Hall) is the first and oldest market and department store in Helsinki. T...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_229335" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Sunrise at Venice Beach Pier © flickr.com - Jeff Turner/cc-by-2.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Venice Beach is part of Venice, a neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles wi...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_150914" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Nissi Beach © Romeparis/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Cyprus ...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_222760" align="aligncenter" width="455"] Wassily Kandinsky in 1922 by Hugo Erfurth[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credite...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_241212" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Plaza de los Trabajadores © Arnoud Joris Maaswinkel/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's thir...
[ read more ]
