Radical innovation. Under this headline, 275 engineering students explained why their ideas have the potential to disrupt an entire industry. They made their pitches last week at the Applied Innovation in Engineering 2022 event in Stakladen at Aarhus University (AU).

A large pan-European network of researchers, farmers, companies and knowledge centres has established a platform showcasing hundreds of existing technologies that can help de-fossilise agriculture.

With a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark, a team of researchers and experts from industry and Aarhus University will try to solve the fundamental problem that the speed of light simply is not fast enough for the internet of the future.

Listen or relisten to the feature from 21 April 2022 about Denmark’s plans for a green transition.

The curve is only heading in one direction for engineering at Aarhus University. In just two years, total revenue has more than doubled, external grants have increased by 17 per cent, and the number of engineering students has grown to more than 4000.

Engineers are in demand like never before. Anyone attending the internship days P-day at Katrinebjerg and Praktik Match at Navitas will know. The events attract more than 130 companies hoping to recruit engineers from Aarhus University. According to the companies, engineers are the bread and butter of their growth.

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

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.

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.

A small ring around the main artery may cure patients with leaking heart valves. Researchers have documented its effect on animals and they hope they will make it possible to use the technology on humans.