In 2021, he averaged eight daily appearances in Danish media, and he has also communicated his knowledge internationally in media such as CNN, BBC, Fox News, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Nature and Science. Michael Bang Petersen, professor of political science at Aarhus BSS, is this year’s recipient of the Aarhus University Anniversary Foundation Research Communication Prize.

For the first time, the foundations behind Salling Group award the 'Ferdinand Scholarship' for the top three internship assignments on the new Master’s degree programme in Commercial and Retail Management at Aarhus BSS, which the retail group helped establish last year. With each scholarship comes DKK 25,000.