News about Grants

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.

Four researchers receive DKK 114 million to expand knowledge of the human brain

Four ambitious research projects will pave the way for new treatments of diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, substance use disorder and many other conditions.

Research project on Ukrainian refugees receives funding from the Carlsberg Foundation

A research project on the mental health of Ukrainian refugees supported by the Crown Princess Mary Center has received additional funding for data collection.

Eight SUND-researchers receive grants to high-risk projects

Research daredevils from Danish universities and hospitals receive the Lundbeck Foundation Experiment grant to implement high-risk projects.

Grants from the Novo Nordisk Foundation autumn 2022

In autumn 2022, three research leaders from the Department of Biology received grants from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Researchers receive grant to develop digital tool for ethnographic research

Morten Axel Pedersen and August Lohse receive Carlsberg Foundation's 'Research Infrastructure Grant' for a new research platform.

Top scientists from UCPH and Oxford get DKK 180 million to research obesity

Worldwide, more and more people are suffering from obesity. Now a group of top researchers has received a great grant to develop new treatment.

Top researchers from UCPH and Oxford receives DKK 180 million to develop treatment for people with obesity

CEMES GRANTS – Spring 2023

Call for applications for research activities planned for 2023.

“It may be a common notion that researchers are a bit dusty, but that is not the case”

“There are many inspiring people doing research, and if you have the slightest bit of curiosity, you should try it.” These encouraging words were spoken by Mette Rosenkilde, who was recently awarded with the European…

“It may be a common notion that researchers are a bit dusty, but that is not the case”

“There are many inspiring people doing research, and if you have the slightest bit of curiosity, you should try it.” These encouraging words were spoken by Mette Rosenkilde, who was recently awarded with the European…

Research into how nerve cells regulate communication receives ERC grant

Associate Professor at Department of Neuroscience Alexander Matthias Walter has received an ERC consolidator grant for research into synaptic plasticity.

Views of violence - Images as documentary, evidentiary and affective

Nina Grønlykke Molleup receives Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for her project Views of violence - Images as documentary, evidentiary and affective.

SUND receives four Sapere Aude research leader grants

Four researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences receive Sapere Aude research leader grants. They each receive DKK 6 million for their innovative projects.

Four SUND researchers receive DKK 11 million from the Inge Lehmann Programme

Four researchers from SUND receive a total of DKK 11 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s Inge Lehmann Programme. The programme aims to strengthen talent development and promote gender equality in Danish…

One year, five Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowships

Orchids, toads, 3D folding of DNA, the genomic consequences of social structure, and squirrel hologenomics are the five research fields that researchers at the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics (CEH) will investigate…

One year, five Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowships

Orchids, toads, 3D folding of DNA, the genomic consequences of social structure, and squirrel hologenomics are the five research fields that researchers at the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics (CEH) will investigate…

Two BMI profiles receive millions in grants from the Inge Lehmann programme

Trisha Jean Grevengoed and Lærke Smidt Gasbjerg are each awarded more than DKK 2.8 million from Denmark's Independent Research Foundation.

Three ERC Starting Grants to SUND researchers

Researchers Lea Haarup Gregersen, Hernan Eduardo Morales Villegas and Victor Moreno Mayar each receives a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

ERC Starting Grant for Jakob Grunnet Knudsen

Assistant Professor Jakob Grunnet Knudsen has received an € 1.5 million ERC starting Grant from the European Union for his project, "Paracrine signalling in alpha cells and the integration of mechanisms that control…

DKK 10 million for research into sleep and delta receptors

Two SUND professors have been awarded the Lundbeck Foundation's Ascending Investigator grant. This means more research into sleep in young adults and basic research into the brain's largest neurotransmitter system.