In cooperation with the LEGO Foundation and Intel, Aarhus University is hosting the world’s biggest international research conference on children and technology. The event will take place in Aarhus on 17-20 June.

The Aarhus University research centre PIT added a digital layer to the Aarhus Mini Maker Faire, which was held at the Aarhus Main Library. The project group hopes that the experiment will help create a closer connection between the digital and the physical universe.

Children´s life and play with the media´ is about why we, as adult, need to engage ourselves in the way in which children are using the media.

On May 23rd 2014, Niels Ole Finnemann, professor of Internet research at the Department of Aesthetics and Communication, will retire, after having played an important role in the development of Internet Research in Denmark for many years.

This autumn there is a new 30 ECTS master course, that you can register for. The course fokus is on the intersection between city, people and technology.

BBC reports on a digital artwork installation, Jsut Code, produced by the PIT researcher Winnie Soon and her collaborator Helen Pritchard (UK).

Professor emeritus Svend Erik Larsen, Comparative Literature, has been appointed by the national Portuguese research agency, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, and the European Research Foundation, ESF, to the panel responsible for awarding the basic grants to the national Portuguese research centers 2014-2020.

Professor emeritus Svend Erik Larsen, Comparative Literature, spent Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at University College London. UCL has now appointed him Honorary Professor from 2014-2019, affiliated with the School of European Languages, Culture and Society.

PhD student Niels Christian Hansen, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, receives DKK. 300000 EliteForsk travel scholarship. The scholarship will take the young scientist to Washington, Seoul and Sydney, among other places.

A major international congress is currently being held in Barcelona, with Aarhus University joining the Danish Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs to present some Danish ideas about intelligent and sustainable urban development.