News about Grants

Media portrayals of climate advocates to be explored

New research project from the Department of Political Science will investigate who speaks out in the media about fighting climate change and what impact these people have on public attitudes towards climate change.

Ministry of Digital Affairs grants a total of 30.7 Million to ambitious Danish language model project

The University of Copenhagen, together with the University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus University, and the Alexandra Institute, has received a total of 30.7 million kroner from the Ministry of Digitalisation to establis…

Sociologist to investigate Nordic integration policies

A new research project will explore how different policies have affected the integration of immigrants in three Nordic countries. The project is run by researchers from Norway, Sweden, and UCPH professor of sociology…

Economist wants to shed light on corporate waste

How is a company's waste production and recycling affected by owners, managers, employees and lenders? Professor Morten Bennedsen will investigate this in a new project supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Funding for green research

Independent Research Fund Denmark has just distributed thematic funds for "Free Green Research". Out of 333 applications, 42 ground-breaking projects were granted support - 3 of these at the Department of Biology: …

Funding for research into quinoa and brain health in the elderly

The Independent Research Fund Denmark supports two projects at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences focussing on green research and the elderly.

Millions in funding for mental health research

The Independent Research Fund Denmark funds 20 projects at SUND focussing on psychiatry, marginalised children and youth, poor well-being and loneliness.

How does compassion for animals develop and take root?

Looking at Tibetans and Indians who provide care for stray animals in northern India, a new anthropological project will explore how people develop a compassion-based ethics through their encounters with animals.

Talent prizes go to five young SUND researchers

The Lundbeck Foundation awards talent prizes to five young researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.

Six researchers from SUND receive grants for brain research

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences receives grants from The Lundbeck Foundation to six projects within neuroscience research.

Political discrimination against job applicants is being investigated

New project at the Department of Sociology to investigate whether employers discriminate against political employees because of their political leanings. The project is supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark…

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…