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Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark is gaining an international reputation for excellence despite its location at a remote agricultural town in a very small country on Europe's northern periphery. Its physics department was founded in the 1940s by physicists from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and its cell biology department has received support from the EC. to perform work on the Human Genome Project. Researchers at Aarhus receive adequate support for travelling and do not have to compete for funds for technical assistance which are included in the university budget.
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Public funds for research in Denmark are increasing, and Danes are looking forward to greater cooperation with researchers from the EC. The Danish Science Policy Council, together with the universities and research councils, has implemented a program of having outside evaluations of Danish research performed by foreign experts. Danish researchers find favorable reports helpful in making a case for continued financial support for their projects.
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Some Norwegians believe that whales represent a resource that can and should be sustainably harvested. Researchers at the University of Oslo intend to study 400 whales caught for the purpose of learning about their diet. Critics believe the government's funding of whale research is intended to lend scientific legitimacy to its defiance of the international moratorium on commercial whaling and is not motivated by scientific questions.
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