Copenhagen University

With almost 35,000 students and more than 7,000 employees, the University of Copenhagen is the largest institution of research and education in Denmark. Most research carried out at the University is basic research. However, research and development aimed at solving specific problems have increasingly been undertaken in the University.

IT-research and studies at the University of Copenhagen have been mainly concentrated in the Department of Computer Science, also known as DIKU. The Department offers undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. level courses and has about 450 students. It carries out research in several areas such as image analysis, distributed systems, logic programming and databases, musical informatics, semantics of programming language, and algorithmic and optimisation.

A recent initiative was the creation of the Centre of IT Competencies in Natural Sciences (NIK), affiliated to the Faculty of Science. The centre will carry on research on IT teaching methods and the network society investigating issues such as the role of network technologies for research, education and communication within the natural science disciplines.