News about Grants

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…

Four new BRIDGE postdoc grants at BMI

BMI receives four new postdoctoral grants under the BRIDGE programme. This year, a total of fourteen 2-year postdoctoral grants have been awarded under the BRIDGE programme, which is financed by the Novo Nordisk…

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…

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

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.

Research project will crack the code behind green neighbourhood communities

With support from THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS, new research anchored at the Department of Anthropology will examine how to create green neighbouring communities in housing associations.

Research into digital sovereignty and governance of oceans receives multi-million grants

Two VELUX FONDEN grants allow researchers from the Department of Political Science to launch projects on crucial political challenges in digital technologies and sustainable governance of seas.

Joint educational project at NBI

Alessandra Camplani and Stefania Xella from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at the University of Copenhagen, have received a 4EU+ grant for Joint Educational Projects.

Georgios Magdis receives Villum Young Investigator Plus grant to investigate the beginning of galaxies

With the Villum Young Investigator Plus, he will be able to look even further into the past, to the first few billion years of galaxy evolution, using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the James…

Irene Tamborra receives grant to investigate the unknowns of neutron star mergers

The title is a little unusual for a scientific project: “Neutron stars - rattling, shining and sparkling”, but the idea is to take a closer look at where elements heavier than iron like platinum and gold actually come…

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, Morten Kjærgaard and Charlotte Mason, are among the beneficiaries this year and their research reaches across the spectrum the smallest to the largest, i.e. from…

Kirstine Meyers Memorial Grant for Astrid T. Rømer

Astrid T. Rømer from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has received the Kirstine Meyers Memorial Grant from the society for the dissemination of Natural Science.

Kirstine Meyers Memorial Grant for two young researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

These young, promising researchers are receiving this honorary grant for their outstanding research that brings exciting new contributions in their respective fields.