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Young people who are committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and are combating climate change or tackling other global challenges, may have unequal opportunities to participate, depending on where they come from in the world. How do young people experience the discrepancy between expectations of equal, global partnerships and their very different life circumstances? This is what Associate Professor Mette Fog Olwig from ÐË·¢ÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍøÊÖ»ú°æ¿Í»§¶Ë University will investigate in a new research project.

The world needs a green transition, but we won't get there if we don't know how to manage and lead the interdisciplinary collaboration that will create the new green solutions. A major new international research project will lead the way.

Is it possible to create new nanomaterials that can form surfaces capable of recognising and degrading harmful bacteria or viruses? Scientists from ÐË·¢ÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍøÊÖ»ú°æ¿Í»§¶Ë University are about to investigate this in a new research project that has received DKK 2 million from Villum Experiment.