News about Grants

Independent Research Fund Denmark supports five social science research projects

Researchers from Economics, Political Science, Psychology and FAOS are among the recipients of the recently announced grants from Independent Research Fund Denmark. Here you can read about the five SAMF projects.

SODAS Associate Professor Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen Receives a Large Grant from The Independent Research Fund Denmark

SODAS Associate Professor Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen has been awarded a substantial grant of nearly 6 million DKK from The Independent Research Fund Denmark. The project aims to push the boundaries of scientific knowledge o…

Professor Jørgen Wojtaszewski receives the Novo Nordisk Foundation's Distinguished Investigator Grant

With DKK 10 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, Professor Jørgen Wojtaszewski will illuminate the cellular signals that insulin uses to initiate biological effects, and how these signals are affected when insulin…

Leading mathematician wants to solve the riddle of a million quantum particles

One of Europe’s leading mathematicians - Professor Søren Fournais of the University of Copenhagen – is dedicating the next five years to understanding a mysterious quantum phenomenon through extremely complex equations.…

New research centre is going to catch up on lost knowledge of human genes

All life is based on a genetic process where genes are transcribed and translated into proteins. The Danish National Research Foundation has invested a large sum of money in a new research centre that will investigate…

CBMR secures five-year funding extension from Novo Nordisk Foundation

CBMR is awarded up to DKK 1 billion from NNF to support research toward approaches to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cardiometabolic diseases.

Congratulations to Rebecca Miller

on being awarded a grant from the Human Frontier Science Program

StemScreen research center opens at reNEW

It is nowadays possible to build fully functional human mini organs with stem cells that can be used to mimic a variety of diseases. These organoids as they also are called can be used to establish disease models in the…

Three Marie-Curie postdoctoral Fellowships at ILF

Three grants from Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship programme. The postdocs are Laurie Peverini and Nadine Ritter with Professor Stephan Pless and Karl Tobias Gustavsson with Associate Professor Matthias…

Professor Brickman awarded prestigious ERC Advanced Grant

The European Research Council (ECR) has awarded Professor Josh Brickman and his group a 2.5 million euro grant.

Professor Klaus Høyer awarded prestigious ERC Advanced Grant

The European Research Council (ECR) has awarded Professor Klaus Høyer and his group a 2.5 million euro grant.

Young talents to strengthen research into antibiotic resistance and bone pain

Two SUND projects receive attractive MSCA Doctoral Networks grants for projects that shall help train PhD students in highly desirable areas of research.

CEBI receives funding for four more years

A new grant of DKK 39.8 million from the Danish National Research Foundation ensures that researchers at CEBI can continue their research on economic behaviour and inequality.

Dr Magnussen has been awarded a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship

Postdoc Michael James Magnussen from the Aragona Group has been awarded a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Union to develop a better disease model of the physiological condition of the bladder.

New structure and broadened entry requirements for courses in German and French

Registration for the August 2023 courses German and French for students going abroad is now open. The entry requirements have been broadened, and the courses in January will be structured as shorter workshops to account…

Elite Research winner: “You shouldn’t count yourself out just because you don’t think you are quite there yet”

Today, newly appointed Professor Eline Lorenzen receives the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Elite Research Prize for her research in biodiversity and environmental changes and her capacity for…

Elite Research winner: “You shouldn’t count yourself out just because you don’t think you are quite there yet”

Today, newly appointed Professor Eline Lorenzen receives the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Elite Research Prize for her research in biodiversity and environmental changes and her capacity for…

The Young Academy calls nominations for the Research Environment of the Year Award

Junior researchers can now nominate their research environment for the Young Academy's Research Environment of the Year award and win DKK 10,000 for an academic or social event. The Young Academy launched the award las…

How many habitable planets are there in the Milky Way? A new project sets out to answer this question

Researchers from the Globe Institute want to know how many planets in our galaxy are habitable. Professor Anders Johansen has received just under DKK 20 million from the Carlsberg Foundation for the project.

New project examines Danes' views on other people's lifestyles

How do we rank different lifestyles? And to what extent do we discriminate against others based on their taste and interests?

Denmark spearheading transformation of EU food system

The University of Copenhagen is leading a comprehensive new EU project, CLEVERFOOD, that will facilitate a society-wide mobilisation of European citizens to transform the European food system that benefits climate goals…

Major research project studies what it looks like when HIV and coronavirus proteins bind to medications

The way in which molecules interact forms the basis of life and treating illness. But what does it look like when a viral protein meets and binds to molecules like those found in medications? A new research project has…

ERC awards grant to counteract metabolic diseases

UCPH researcher Zach Gerhart-Hines from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences receives the prestigious European Research Council’s Consolidator Grant.

CMEC researcher named Villum Young Investigator

Assistant Professor Naia Morueta-Holme, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC), Globe Institute, receives grant from VILLUM FONDEN.