Aarhus University

Aarhus University is an academically diverse and strongly research-oriented institution that creates and shares knowledge.

The university was founded in 1928 and today it has several world class research fields.

Aarhus University (AU) is a top ten university among universities founded within the past 100 years. It has a long tradition of partnerships with some of the world’s best research institutions and university networks.

AU has a strong commitment to the development of society that is realised through its collaboration with government agencies and institutions and the business community.

The university’s goal is to contribute towards solving the complex global challenges facing the world. The university therefore strives to combine the high level of academic standards of its researchers with collaboration across disciplinary boundaries to combine research in new ways.

This takes place in close contact with the world around us and creates the basis for the university to be internationally competitive within the areas of research, education, talent development and knowledge exchange.

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Les compteurs de pas et autres outils numériques doivent probablement s’inscrire dans des dispositifs plus larges de promotion de l’activité physique pour être efficaces. Kaspars Grinvalds/Shutterstock

« Applis santé : le contenu d’une notification peut‑il encourager la marche ? »

Selon une étude portant sur plus de 20 000 utilisateurs et utilisatrices d’une application pour compter les pas, ces applis et leurs notifications n’entraînent pas, dans la plupart des cas, de pratique accrue de la marche.
La majorité des grenailles tirées ne touchent pas leur cible et des milliers de tonnes de plomb se retrouvent dispersées dans l’environnement. Chuyko Sergey/Shutterstock

Interdire les munitions au plomb pour sauver les oiseaux de l’empoisonnement ? L’exemple britannique

Pour protéger la faune sauvage, les animaux de compagnie, les animaux d’élevage et les êtres humains, les munitions au plomb doivent être remplacées partout par des alternatives sans plomb.
Brendan Anderson of the United States competes in men’s modern pentathlon riding at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, on Oct. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Modern pentathlon is invoking a fictional Pierre de Coubertin to justify its controversial politics

For more than 100 years, international sport organizations have executed monopolistic power. Now, one has resurrected the founder of the modern Olympics to promote its controversial politics.

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