The current exceptional situation has demanded a rapid transition from you all to address serious challenges that none of us could be prepared for. I would like to express my deep gratitude to you all for your positive attitude, patience and drive in this chaotic period.

The current corona situation means that record numbers of Danes will be working from home for a while. This makes us even more vulnerable to cyber criminals, and AU has already registered an increase in the number of phishing emails we receive. So please be careful when you work from home.

What should you do if you get sick while you are working from home? What do you do if you cannot work to the same extent because your children are home as well? And will it still be possible for you to take holiday? You can find the answers to these questions and more in a Q&A for employees at Aarhus University in connection with the closure of the university.

AU’s VPN network is seeing unusually heavy traffic. We ask everyone not to log onto AU’s systems via VPN unless absolutely necessary.

Aarhus University and a number of Danish and international drug manufacturers are working together in ground-breaking, open research collaboration, ODIN, which the Novo Nordisk Foundation is supporting with DKK 54.5 mill. (EUR 7.2 mill.). The project involves scientists from the three faculties Tech, Nat and Health, and data and results from the collaboration will be made available to everyone, openly and free of charge. The ambition of the project is to exploit collective knowledge from all the researchers participating in ODIN and, in the long term, to forge innovation to benefit patients, industry and society.

Aarhus University will once again participate in the DHL Relay race, and the registration is now open for all employees. It’s time to dust off your trainers and mark your calendar for a cosy evening with your colleagues. The registration deadline is 13 May.

Standards are an important tool for staff and students at AU, and they are used in many different contexts.