The University of Copenhagen, founded in 1479, is Denmark’s oldest university, with four campuses in Copenhagen and one in Taastrup. The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University was incorporated into it in 2007 as the Faculty of Life Sciences, and in 2012 that faculty was among four merged into two: the new Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.
Agricultural work in the Faculty of Science sits in departments including Plant and Environmental Sciences, Food and Resource Economics, Food Science, and Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, whose research covers forest, nature and biomass. The Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences has research groups in crop physiology, plant protection, plant nutrition and soil fertility, offers an MSc in Agriculture, and runs experimental farms and greenhouse facilities in Taastrup. It is also home to the Copenhagen Plant Science Centre and the Green Solutions Centre. The university says it forms long-term strategic partnerships with companies and public authorities covering research, industrial PhDs and access to its facilities.