Coming Up Soon | Cocktails, auditions and workshops

Curious about the implications of the recent EU elections? Listen to speakers from the BCCD talk about European issues such as Britain’s EU referendum and its potential effects on international business within Europe (Hotel D’Angleterre, Kongens Nytorv 34, Cph K; Wed June 11, 08:30)


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Learn how to mix your own drinks at Saloon Bar during a two-hour cocktail workshop. You’ll create and drink three cocktails, as well as get a two-for-one wristband on drinks at the bar (Gothersgade 11, Cph K; Fri June 6, 18:00; 150kr) 


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The CTC is holding auditions (Østerbro International School, Præstøgade 17, Cph Ø; Sat June 7, 15:00 or Tue June 10, 19:00) for Christopher Durang’s ‘Beyond Therapy’ – a mess of emotions, psychoanalysis, insecurities and love affairs. If you’re mentally unstable, or can appear so, this one is for you!


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Struggling to innovate? Attend a workshop held by two master’s students  that will help redefine innovation for you, teach you about patents and give you an opportunity to work hands-on in a new, creative way (Mærsk Headquarters, Esplanaden 50, Cph K; Tue June 10, 18:30)



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CIS is already thinking about the summer holidays – summer school, that is. Last year, it welcomed students from 38 countries. Sign up your 6 to 16-year-old for a range of educational and athletics courses running June 23-July 11, 2014 (Hellerupvej 22-26, Hellerup; cis.dk)


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It’s never too late to hop on the tech bandwagon. Shay Friedman is leading a two-day workshop where you can learn Angular JS and the fundamentals of web-development (Larslejssræde 2, Cph K; June 10-11, 09:00)

 




  • Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    China’s 12 leading wind turbine makers have signed a pact to end a domestic price war that has seen turbines sold at below cost price in a race to corner the market and which has compromised quality and earnings in the sector.

  • Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Novo Nordisk’s TV commercial for the slimming drug Wegovy has been shown roughly 32,000 times and reached 8.8 billion US viewers since June.

  • Retention is the new attraction

    Retention is the new attraction

    Many people every year choose to move to Denmark and Denmark in turn spends a lot of money to attract and retain this international talent. Are they staying though? If they leave, do they go home or elsewhere? Looking at raw figures, we can see that Denmark is gradually becoming more international but not everyone is staying. 

  • Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Denmark’s Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen attended the Association of the Unites States Army’s annual expo in Washington DC from 14 to 16 October, together with some 20 Danish leading defence companies, where he says Danish drone technology attracted significant attention.

  • Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors, pharmacies and politicians have voiced concern that the pharmaceutical industry’s inability to supply opioid prescriptions in smaller packets, and the resulting over-prescription of addictive morphine pills, could spur levels of opioid abuse in Denmark.

  • Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Residents of cooperative housing associations in Copenhagen and in Frederiksberg distribute vacant housing to their own family members to a large extent. More than one in six residents have either parents, siblings, adult children or other close family living in the same cooperative housing association.


  • Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 of September, The Copenhagen Post will be at International Citizen Days in Øksnehallen on Vesterbro, Copenhagen. Admission is free and thousands of internationals are expected to attend

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    Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Chisom Udeze, the founder of Diversify – a global organization that works at the intersection of inclusion, democracy, freedom, climate sustainability, justice, and belonging – shares how struggling to find a community in Norway motivated her to build a Nordic-wide professional network. We also hear from Dr. Poornima Luthra, Associate Professor at CBS, about how to address bias in the workplace.

  • Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality, home to Denmark’s largest infrastructure project – the Fehmarnbelt tunnel connection to Germany – has launched a new jobseeker support package for the accompanying partners of international employees in the area. The job-to-partner package offers free tailored sessions on finding a job and starting a personal business.