News about Grants

Research towards a more sustainable Arctic

Out of the ten impressive grants, two went to support interesting projects at the Department of Biology: Jing Tang received DKK 3,167,595 for the project: Arctic Cooling from Anthropogenic and Natural Emissions (ARCANE)…

Green electricity requires flexible consumers

Denmark faces a significant challenge when we transition to an electricity system powered solely by renewable energy by 2030. ‘Wind and solar, which are our primary renewable energy sources, are fluctuating by nature,…

Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis [TicToC]: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis

A new project has just been awarded 1.5 million euro with Andreas Bandak as Project Leader.

Independent Research Fund Denmark supports five social science projects

Researchers in Psychology, Economics and Sociology are among the recipients of the October 2024 grants from Independent Research Fund Denmark.

William Byrne Receives NordForsk Grant of 702.656 NOK

NordForsk has awarded Assistant Prof. William Byrne (UCPH), along with Postdoc Runar Lie (UiO) and Prof. Thomas Troels Hildebrandt (UCPH), a grant of 702.656 NOK to support work within the project "Nordic Refugee…

Congratulations to CCS PIs Eva Hoffmann, Niels Mailand, and Ying Liu

on being awarded DFF-Research Project 1 grants

Congratulations to Isa Amalie Olofsson

on being awarded a DFF–Research Project 1 (thematic) grant.

Free research funding for researchers at the Department of Biology

Independent research has amazing conditions at the Department of Biology! Ten excellent research projects can now see the light of day, due to support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. Every year, DFF-Research…

SUND researchers receive more than DKK 100 million from research fund

38 research projects at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen receive funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

SUND receives funding for patient-centric research

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences receives DKK 30 million in funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for 11 projects.

Open postdoc position on the AI-UNI project

Do you have a PhD specialising in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics or similar, you might be the perfect candidate for the postdoc position as part of the research project AI-UNI.

New project will develop the use of artificial intelligence for interviews

With support from the Villum Foundation, Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, SODAS, will help develop the use of artificial intelligence for scientific interviews.

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen receives Villum Synergy Grant of 6M DKK

The grant will fund the project: ”Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Credibility in Asylum Decision-making” (XAI-CRED) as it explores the use of explainable AI models in legal decision-making related to asylum…

Congratulations to Eva Hoffmann

with the new DNRF Center of Excellence "Center for Fertility and Inheritance (CFI)".

Congratulations to Hans Wandall

with the new DNRF Center of Excellence "Copenhagen Center for Glycocalyx Research (CGR)" .

Congratulations to Hans Wandall

with the new DNRF Center of Excellence "Center for Glycocalyx Research (CGR)" .

DKK 130 million for two new research centres at SUND

The Danish National Research Foundation grants DKK 130 million to establish two new research centres at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.

Flea toads, dwarf pygmy goby fish and bumblebee bats: Researcher aims to solve the riddle of miniature animals

Just seven millimetres long, flea toads are among the smallest vertebrates on Earth. Despite their diminutive size, their organs and functions hardly differ from animals a thousand times larger. While examples of extrem…

Project on the dual role of lobbying supported by ERC grant

Do lobbyists equip politicians with valuable information, or do they entice our elected representatives to look after special interests? Probably both, is the assumption behind an upcoming research project by Wiebke…

Six one-month fellowships

The Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS) advertises up to 6 one-month fellowships connected to its ongoing Who are We? research project. Fellows accepted into the program will be offered the opportunity to spend one…

Lisa Gottlieb Becomes a Branco Weiss Fellow

Lisa, BRIDGE and Danish Cardiovascular Academy fellow and postdoc in the Jespersen Group, has received DKK 4.6 million from the Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science for her project "Crosstalk in the Whole Heart:…

Mapping concerns about rising seawater

How do citizens living on the coasts of four countries in the North Sea region worry about future sea level rise and storm surges? This is the question Kristoffer Langkjær Albris will investigate in a project that DFF i…

New funding for Silk Ribbons In Museum Amager

In late June, the research project "Silk Ribbons at Museum Amager - A Window to Europe'' received 75.000 kr. from Manufakturhandlerforeningen i Kjøbenhavns Almene Fond.

Henriette Stoy receives an EMBO fellowship

Henriette Stoy has received DKK 1.340.000 as an EMBO postdoctoral Fellowship for the project “DNA structural elements in the genome-wide regulation of transcription”. This collaborative project between the Møllegaard la…