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Recommendations to boost cooperative enterprise based on ITU research

Hanne Westh Nicolajsen Lene Nielsen Vasiliki Baka Business IT Department Research business democracy

24 June, 2022

Danish startups and entrepreneurs lack knowledge of the potential in cooperative enterprise. The Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs’ taskforce on cooperative enterprise has published a new set of recommendations for legislators to address the problem. A team of ITU researchers has been instrumental in devising the recommendations by analyzing democratic entrepreneurship in Denmark.

Per Bruun Brockhoff appointed new Vice-Chancellor of the IT University of Copenhagen

Per Bruun Brockhoff About ITU

20 June, 2022

Department Head at DTU Compute, Per Bruun Brockhoff, will take office as Vice-Chancellor of the IT University on September 1, 2022.

Innovation projects apply knowledge in practice – and presents new perspectives on research

Bernardo Machado David Cancan Wang Business IT Department Computer Science Department Research fintech grants

16 June, 2022

Researchers at the IT University of Copenhagen, Cancan Wang and Bernardo David, have secured funding from Copenhagen Fintech to realize their respective innovation projects in a private sector context. Innovation projects allow researchers to apply their knowledge in practice and gain new research insights.

NERDS research group wins best research environment award

Luca Maria Aiello Luca Rossi Michael Szell Michele Coscia Roberta Sinatra About ITU awards big data data science Vedran Sekara

2 June, 2022

The IT University’s Networks, Data, and Society (NERDS) research group is the winner of Danish Young Academy’s award for best research environment.

Funding: ITU researchers examine cultural dynamics in the age of digitalisation

Luca Rossi Vasilieos-Spyridon Vlassis Business IT Department Digital Design Department Research big data Climate IT data science digitization ethics grants

1 June, 2022

Associate Professor at Digital Design, Luca Rossi, and Postdoc at Business IT, Vasilieos-Spyridon Vlassis, have secured 4.6 million kroner from the European CHANSE programme for their respective research projects in digital innovation and social and cultural dynamics.

Space missions: SpaceX is faster and more cost-efficient than NASA

Bent Flyvbjerg Danish Institute for IT Program Management Research management

30 May, 2022

A new study from the internationally renowned project management expert and Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Bent Flyvbjerg, concludes that in using a scalable platform strategy, SpaceX is more efficient than NASA when it comes to launching missions into space.

Rasmus Ejlers Møgelberg and Jonas Fritsch receive grants from IRFD

Jonas Fritsch Rasmus Ejlers Møgelberg Computer Science Department Digital Design Department Research awards design software programming languages Stina Hasse Joergensen

10 May, 2022

The two researchers – from Computer Science and Digital Design at the IT University respectively – have each secured a grant of approximately 2.8 million kroner for their research projects.

European Blockchain Center announces new partnership

Roman Beck Collaborations Entrepreneurship Blockchain

28 April, 2022

The European Blockchain Center at the IT University of Copenhagen is partnering with SupraOracles to explore future collaborative efforts to provide value to the blockchain industry on a global scale.

Can robots help prevent anxiety attacks in children?

Computer Science Department Research algorithms artificial intelligence grants robots Morten Roed Frederiksen

26 April, 2022

Morten Roed Frederiksen from Computer Science at ITU has received 1.6 million kroner from Independent Research Fund Denmark for at research project that aims to make robots better at understanding human emotion. The goal is to create technology that may help children with anxiety.

Professor Sebastian Risi receives grant to develop policy learning with neural networks

Sebastian Risi Digital Design Department Research algorithms artificial intelligence

20 April, 2022

Professor in the Digital Design Department at the IT University of Copenhagen, Sebastian Risi, has received a grant of approximately 550,000 Danish kroner for his work on neural cellular automata to grow neural network policies capable of adapting to novel complex reinforcement learning tasks.

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