News about Grants

New Grant: Preventing local conflicts over storm surge protection

Assistant professor at SODAS and Department of Anthropology Kristoffer Albris has received a 2.9 million grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s (DFF) pool for green research

Postdoc from the Department of Biology receives VILLUM International Postdoc grant

Postdoc Jolanta Rieksta, Department of Biology, has just received VILLUM FONDEN's International Postdoc grant of 2.5 mDKK.

World-class research into Greenland's oldest ice and the Universe's densest stars win very large EU grants

When was Greenland actually green? And how does the Universe make gold, platinum and uranium? Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have just received 11.4 million euro to answer these big questions. The…

Student internships spring 2023

The Centre for Modern European Studies (University of Copenhagen) and The Lausanne Project invite applications for student internships, in spring 2023.

Call for applicants! Deadline17 October. The Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition.

Do you want to represent UCPH at an international global health case challenge in Atlanta USA in March? The Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition brings together students from diverse disciplines and multipl…

This year’s summer language courses in Danish/German/French were extremely popular!

In August, CIP organised summer language courses in both Danish for international students and German and French for Danish students going on exchange. Both Danish and international students have been highly satisfied…

Researchers will enhance visual impressions using AR technology

A research collaboration between a psychologist and a computer scientist is now supported with 3 million DKK from the Villum Foundation. The researchers will investigate how visual impressions can be strengthened using…

CeBIL receives EU grant for study of AI-assisted cancer sugery

CLASSICA – Validating AI in Classifying Cancer in Real-time Surgery, is a collaborative, international and interdisciplinary project consortium, which has recently received a grant of €6 million under the EU Horizon…

Stephan Sauer receives DKK 40 million NNF grant

Congratulations to professor Stephan P. A. Sauer for leading this exciting new quantum computer project supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation with a grant of DKK 40 million.

Two CHEM professors receive Villum Experiment grants

Professors Henrik Kjærgaard and Morten Meldeal from the Department of Chemistry, UCPH are receiving the “Villum Experiment grants” – each receiving DKK 2 million.

Wild ideas thrive at the Department of Biology

This year's Experiment million grants from the VILLUM FONDEN are being distributed today. The Department of Biology receives 10 percent of all grants and one third of the grants to the University of Copenhagen.

SIC receives prestigious Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship

The new fellowship secures two years of intensive studies on the role of microRNAs in the regulation of generation and maintenance of allergy-induced skin resident memory T cells. Allergen-induced skin resident memory T…

Stricter rules for enrolling PhD students with foreign grants

PhD students with foreign cost-of-living grants must be guaranteed an amount equal to 2 x SU per month without the use of hourly employment at UCPH. All PhD students must also pay tuition fees. From the turn of the…

Two brilliant nerds from SCIENCE receive NNF NERD grants

NNF NERD (New Exploratory Research and Discovery programme) supports the unorthodox and wild research ideas. This brings new knowledge within natural sciences or technology.

Professor Bente Frølund receives a Novo Nerd 2022 grant

Bente Frølund has recently received 8.5 mill DKK from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to the project “Proximity-inducing new downstream chemistries - A platform for re-wiring cell signaling”.

Free movement? New Centre of Excellence examines global mobility rights

A new national Centre of Excellence in law will examine the complex legal structures that govern how we, as humans, move or are prevented from moving across national borders and parts of the world. The new centre will…

Nine young SUND-researchers receive millions to ignite career

Lundbeck Foundation Postdocs research grants are aimed at young, highly qualified scientists working in the field of biomedical sciences. SUND receives nine out of total of 31 Postdoc grants for 2022.

Anna Klawonn and Alexander Hauser new members of Lundbeck Foundation Investigators Network

The Lundbeck Foundation has admitted assistant professors Alexander Hauser and Anna Mathia Klawonn into their recently established network of researchers, LFIN, Lundbeck Foundation Investigators Network.

International Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity

Competition for The 2022-23 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships is open for applications. The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides $70,000 per year for two years. The program is open to both Canadian and…

Department of Psychology involved in new project on the ‘Big Two’

Researchers from the University of Mannheim and UCPH will lead a new project asking why the so-called ‘Big Two’ in human psychology – agency and communion – are so fundamental to us.

New research on how to quantify quantum effects on black holes

Professor in Physics, Vitor Cardoso from the Niels Bohr Institute, NBIA, has received a DNRF Chair grant from the Danish National Research Foundation to study and quantify quantum effects on astrophysical black holes

Does altitude-like cognition training strengthen brain function?

Researchers at the Department of Psychology will now investigate whether simulated altitude cognition training can strengthen the brain function.

Research project about deterrence is rewarded an ERC Grant

What influence does deterrence have on international politics? The topic is highly relevant at the moment and is now being supported by the European Research Council.

Two of our researchers have received the LF Experiment grant from the Lundbeck Foundation

Postdoc Laura Mikél Mc Nair and Associate Professor Matthias Herth have received the grant given by the Lundbeck Foundation for audacious and innovative projects.