Funding opportunities
Starting grants
Most important career grants for young researchers:
- Independent Research Fund Denmark: Sapere Aude: DFF-Starting Grant
- Villum Foundation: Villum Young Investigator
- European Research Council (ERC): Starting Grant
- Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF): Inge Lehmann
- Carlsberg Foundation: Semper Ardens Accelerate (targeted newly appointed associate professors)
Career grants
- Villum Foundation: Investigator
- Carlsberg Foundation Accomplish
- ERC Consolidator grant
- ERC Advanced grant
Project grants etc.
- AUFF Nova
- DFF
- Research project 1 / 2
- Inge Lehmann
- Horizon Europe
- EIC Pathfinder, Transition
- Global challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
- Innovation Fund Denmark - Grand Solutions
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- Project Grants in the Natural and Technical Sciences
- Project Grants in Natural Science education and informal learning environments
- Challenge programme
- Exploratory Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme
- New Exploratory Research and Discovery (NERD)
- Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme
- Data Science Collaborative Research Programme
- UFM - EUopSTART
- Villum Foundation
- Villum Synergy Programme, data-driven science
- Villum Experiment
- National Defence Technology Centre (NFC)
For students, PhD students and postdocs
- Innovation Fund Denmark - Industrial researcher (PhD / postdoc)
- Aase og Jørgen Münters fond
- Augustinus-fonden
- Bertebos Foundation
- Branco Weiss "Society in Science" postdoctoral fellowships
- Brorsons rejselegat
- Dansk Tennis Fond
- Fiedlers legat (no webpage)
- Frands Chr. Frantzens Fond
- Franks Minde Legat
- Frimodt-Heineke Fonden
- GSNS grants for PhD Students
- Hede Nielsens Fond
- IDAs og Berg-Nielsens Studie- og Støttefond
- Knud Højgaards Fond
- Niels Bohr Fondet
- Oticon fonden
- SERI Scholarships and grants
- Siemens fonden
Infrastructure/equipment
- Carlsberg Research Infrastructure
- Novo Nordisk Research Infrastructure - Large equipment and facilities
- Novo Nordisk Exploratory Research Instrumentation
- Stibofonden (minor/medium equipment/infrastructure)
Conferences/workshops
Mobility/travel
The list includes opportunities for all career levels (postdoc, starting, consolidating, advanced)
Foreign public institutions (not EU)
Entrepreneurship/Innovation
Foundations for diverse purposes
- Beckett-Fonden
- Bodil Pedersen fonden
- Hartmann Fonden - Hartmann Fonden
- Circle U Funding Scheme
- Kræftens bekæmpelse
- Frimodt-Heineke Fonden
- EUDP
- Lindhards legat
- Ib Henriksens fond
- Industriens Fond
- Kronprins Frederiks og Kronprinsesse Marys Fond
- MTHP fond
- Poul Due Jensens Fond
- Den Raben-Levetzauske Fond (no webpage)
- Elna og Erik Mariagers Fond af 1980 (no webpage)
Unsolicited applications
Some foundations are accepting unsolicited applications.
Check their websites or a scientific officer from the foundation to learn more.
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