The company Pure Algae started back in 2018 based on a master's thesis. Today, it is a company with eight employees and an almost fully developed technology for land-based production of seaweed. Pure Algae is among the participants in the EIT Food entrepreneurship programme Seedbed, which in Denmark is based at AU FOOD – the Department of Food Science at Aarhus University. EIT Food Seedbed opens for new applications in early 2021.

On November 17, approx. 150 researchers, politicians and stakeholders participated in a webinar to discuss and provide information about the perspectives of green biorefining for European agriculture. The webinar was held in cooperation with members of the European Parliament as well as representatives from the European Commission.

Inspired by the widespread use of technology in the context of COVID-19, Assistant Professor Qian Janice Wang from the science team Food Quality Perception and Society at the Department of Food Science, Aarhus University is hosting a virtual, interactive conference out of the ordinary. The first ReThink Eating Conference 2020 takes place online on 3 December, and it is free of charge.

To gain a better insight into the development of the weed's resistance to herbicides, researchers from Aarhus University have updated the overview of resistance in a new note to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency.

During his PhD studies, Jakob Raffn attempted to unpack and address a key challenge of our time; namely that, ‘while societies become increasingly aware of and knowledgeable about sustainability they do not become sustainable’. In their current configurations, our Societal Operating Systems (SOS), i.e. economies, sciences, politics, technologies, philosophies, etc., do not operate in favor of sustainability. Consequently, novel SOSs – capable of handling the challenges of our time – must be created, trialed and refined and the process of doing so rigorously documented and shared.

Assistant Professor Martin Krøyer Rasmussen from the Department of Food Science receives DKK 2.8 mill. from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a project that will investigate micro-RNAs in plant-based diets. It is an area that is not very well understood, but which can have a very big impact on our health.

In a new EIT Food project, researchers from the Department of Food Science, Aarhus University, investigate how people affected by COVID-19 experience changes in appetite, sense of taste and smell - and pleasure related to food intake in general.

Researchers from the DCA departments are among the seventeen researchers from Aarhus University, who have won grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for research projects that contribute to the green transition.

In the project MaInHealth, researchers from the Department of Food Science at Aarhus University investigate how breast milk is composed and how the mother’s lifestyle affects it. In the long term, this may become important for future designs of breast milk substitute. The researchers are looking for pregnant women who will participate in the important research project.

Researchers from the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University have developed a system for terron classification at different scales based on gridded data, and used it to classify and map terron regions in Denmark incorporating soil, climate and landscape information.

Aarhus University Centre for Innovative Food Research, innFOOD, will organise its first international research conference on 1 and 2 February 2021. Here, the latest food research in everything from production of raw material, food processing and packaging to sensory science, consumer behaviour and health will be presented. The conference takes place online and participation is free.

A new study at Department of Animal Science shows that hatching broilers on-farm rather than in hatcheries results in a number of benefits: The chicks rest more, take up more feed, weigh more and have a lower mortality.

Due to COVID-19, all mink at AU Foulum’s experimental farm will be destroyed. The department is currently trying to establish an overview of the consequences for research as well as the employees.

ReDoCO2 is a new Danish development project, which the Innovation Fund Denmark supports with DKK 24.3 million. kr. Researchers from the Department of Agroecology will, in collaboration with Aalborg University, RegionMidt, SkyTEM, and I • GIS, develop methods and technology for mapping and analysing peatlands, one of the major sources of CO2 emissions in agriculture. The project will develop methods for a more accurate determination of the distribution of peat soils as well as carbon stocks here.