At the People’s Meeting, pastor Mikael Wandt Laursen invites well-known Danes to share their relationship with religion to promote conversations about faith.How do you create a space where festival-goers find the peace to talk about their faith?This is what Mikael Wandt Laursen, secretary general of the Christian organization Frikirkenet, who has been a regular part of the Folkemødet for the past many years, knows. He has experienced increasing interest – especially from young men who want to talk more about their faith. One of the reasons for this is that the narrative that has dominated our culture for the past…
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How does it feel when, as a stateless person, you are repeatedly met with a bureaucratic obstacle course? 20-year-old Shahi Hussein will put this into words when she participates in the People’s Assembly for the first time.In Denmark, there are around 80,000 people living without a Danish passport, many of whom are children and young people. One of them is 20-year-old Shahi Hussein, a Kurd from Syria. Since she came to Denmark with her parents at the age of seven, she has found herself in what she calls a “bureaucratic obstacle course”.She came to Denmark before she was eight years…
Vehicles used to sell opioids can be confiscated, and sellers can be stripped of their right to operate a store.The penalties for possession and resale of drugs, especially opioids, will be significantly tightened from this summer. A broad majority in the Danish Parliament on Wednesday passed the amendment, which only the Unity Party opposed, on the grounds that citizens who possess drugs for their own use should not be punished with imprisonment.”With the support of a broad majority in the Folketing, we are now taking a decisive step towards treating opioids for what they are: The most dangerous and deadly…
A new study from the Danish Institute of Public Health shows that girls have overtaken boys in substance use. It’s a trend that puzzles the researcher behind it.For many years, boys have dominated the top of the list of young people’s drug use. But that’s no longer the case. Now, girls in 9th grade use e-cigarettes to a greater extent and drink larger amounts of alcohol more often than boys of the same age, according to a new study of young people’s drug habits from the Danish Institute of Public Health.One of the researchers behind the study is Ola Ekholm.…
Novo Nordisk will be able to carry out experiments on an unprecedented scale with the supercomputer, says innovation manager.The Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has already identified artificial intelligence as an important ingredient in the current and future development of new drugs.Now the company has entered into a collaboration with the Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI), which gives it access to the Danish supercomputer Gefion.DCAI writes this in a press release on Wednesday.Novo Nordisk will use the supercomputer for research and development of new drugs in the company’s core areas of diabetes and obesity.”AI models can now be used…
With a completely open festival site consisting of a city, the organization behind Folkemødet has a challenge in getting all organizers to pay for the democracy festival to take place. But they are trying.If you click on the Lead Agency website, you will see an invitation.”Come with Lead Agency to Denmark’s democracy festival in Allinge,” it says.And then an address:”We are located at Slægtsgården in Østergade,” writes the PR and communications agency, which also says that it has participated in the democracy festival on Bornholm since the first years.If you go to the official website of Folkemødet, it does not…
Ahead of the summer holidays and the massive tourist rush, Copenhagen’s mayor for technology and the environment is asking for help to control Airbnb rentals. But a majority in the Folketing refuses to do anything now.Jørgen Steen Larsen is frustrated, to say the least. Time and again he has tried to get the City of Copenhagen to take action against a neighbor who, in his opinion, rents out his private home to tourists far more than the law allows. By meticulously reviewing the reviews that tourists have given the neighbor on the rental portal Airbnb, Jørgen Steen Larsen believes he…
In the future, there should be “more time for the important things” in the public sector. This is the vision of the government’s AI task force, which will “free up” 30,000 employees.30,000 employees in the public sector will be ‘liberated’ by artificial intelligence in the future.This is the goal in a new report from the ‘Digital Taskforce for Artificial Intelligence’ – an AI expert group supported by the government, the Association of Danish Local Authorities and the Danish Regions.
More and more young people are drawn to the dream of the perfect body. For Nicolai Rytter, anabolic steroids became a shortcut that has made him addicted. At the People’s Meeting, he hopes to make others more aware of just that.When Nicolai Rytter takes the stage in the University of Copenhagen tent at Folkemødet, it will be in the company of people who have “science on their side”.Nicolai Rytter doesn’t have that, and that’s actually the whole point.He takes anabolic steroids. And for him it is important to help explain the consequences that steroids can have:”I hope I can give…
By next year at the latest, the Danish Armed Forces will be able to place ground-based air defense at selected locations in Denmark.More than 20 years after Denmark abandoned ground-based air defense under the impression of peace in the immediate area, a bleak threat assessment is leading to the urgent acquisition of three new systems.Together with the broad majority of parties behind the defense agreement, the government has decided to spend over 6 billion DKK on three short-range systems from German Diehl Defence, Swedish Kongsberg and MBDA France.