Every year in August, in collaboration with two major players in the wind industry, Vestas and Siemens Gamesa, Aarhus University brings together a team of talented engineering students at an international summer school on wind energy. The aim is to attract talent to the Danish energy sector. And it is urgent.

Artificial skin filled with electronic neurons and synapses will pave the way for prostheses that allow users to feel the heat of the sun, sand between their toes and perhaps even the pain of falling and grazing a knee. A new research fellow will help make this possible.

The biggest day of the year has dawned for hundreds of new engineering students starting the first day on their new degree programmes at Aarhus University. “It’s a landmark day on which it’s crucial to remember the key role of student advisers," says the director of studies.

This year, AU Engineering has offered study places on engineering programmes to 1,092 applicants. This is an increase of 19% compared to 2019.

The number of applicants to engineering at Aarhus University increases once again. After a year of stagnation due to coronavirus, young people flock back to AU Engineering.

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.

Once again, AU Engineering participates in the annual People's Meeting (Folkemødet) in the "tech tent" together with the other technical universities in Denmark. Thursday at 12, the tent officially opened with chemistry shows, quizzes and speeches.

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.

Up to one in every four Danes face the prospect of having high blood pressure. Annually, more than 450,000 home blood pressure measurements are performed in the Danish health system. Now, two students from Aarhus University want to automate data collection and make it easier for patients to measure their blood pressure with their startup Akusis.

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.