Research funding should focus on research projects that are unique to Denmark says professor Peter Ogilby. Meet the professor who some people think is even more Danish than the Danes themselves.

n January 2013 341 new international students will be arriving at Aarhus University. But the city, their degree programmes and the Danes will all be new to them.

So to help them feel more at home here, UNIvers has asked a couple of international students to give the newcomers a few tips: what to do in the city, life at the university, and what the Danes are really like behind their occasionally reserved exterior.

It’s time to apply for a place on one of the 74 courses offered at the AU Summer University in 2013.

The University International Club gave lessons in one of the trickiest of all Danish Christmas traditions: how to weave a Christmas heart. On 5 December the hearts will be hung on the tree at the annual international Christmas tree party.

Aarhus is a fantastic place to study – a message that is worth passing on to new students as well as the students of the future. A group of international AU students have a great idea about how to brand the city

– and their project has just won a competition.

Each year there are more and more international students in Aarhus, and many of them find it impossible to get home for Christmas.