Funding Opportunities

The following are some of the opportunities for funding in Denmark or abroad. Note that links and dates below are indicative and may be outdated. Please do let us know if you find outdated information.

FUNDING FOR SENIOR RESEARCHERS

Danish Grants (Grants at the level of ERC Advanced Grants. Some may require prior approval by CoG Board and NBI)

  • Villum Investigator Grants for experienced and internationally recognised researchers with the potential to make a significant contribution to research at a Danish university.
  • Semper Ardens Advance. Five-year grants for internationally recognised professors as well as research teams to support visionary research projects at the highest international level aiming at scientific breakthroughs.

  • Novo Nordisk RECRUIT is a mobility grant aiming to strengthen Danish universities in the international competition for top researchers and talents and to build strong ecosystems within the areas of support. The grants support the recruitment of researchers at the assistant-, associate-, or full-professor level. All candidates for the RECRUIT programme must be nominated by a Danish university. A nomination quota for RECRUIT is allocated to each Danish university.

  • Carlsberg Grants for outreach and dissemination, research stays, research infrastructure, etc. 

  • The Villum Experiment Programme targets those research proposals out of the ordinary that challenge the norm and have the potential to change fundamentally the way we approach important topics. The applicant is anonymous to the review panel. 
  • KU funding (between 30-70 K) is available for conferences or schools, either via the NBI Fund, a rolling call, or through the KU yearly call.

Outside Denmark


FUNDING FOR JUNIOR RESEARCHERS

If you’re a junior research fresh out of PhD there are a number of opportunities. Please discuss them with senior members close to you, and check LISA Early Career webpage for advice and opportunities. Below we give a list of fellowship that range from first postdoc to more experience researchers.

Danish Grants

  • Danish Data Science Academy Visit Grant. DDSA invites students and researchers from all parts of the world to come visit a data science research environment in Denmark. The purpose of the DDSA Visit Grant is to attract students and early career researchers interested in forming a future fellowship application (PhD or Postdoc) in collaboration with a potential supervisor from a Danish university or a Danish research institution.
  • Novo Nordisk Fellowships.
  • Carlsberg Internationalization Fellowships. For two to three-year postdoctoral fellowships for research at an international research institution and a Danish research institution. 

  • Villum Young Investigator for young, ambitious researchers with the potential to make a significant and independent contribution to the technical and natural sciences at a Danish university.

  • Villum International Postdoc for excellent female researchers at the postdoc level aspiring to pursue a research career.
  • Semper Ardens Accelerate. Three- to five-year grants for newly appointed tenured associate professors to consolidate an independent research group or research environment.
  • Semper Ardens Accomplish. Five-year grants for recently tenured internationally recognised professors to pursue innovative and ambitious research projects.

  • Sapere Aude: DFF-Research Leader is aimed at providing excellent younger researchers, i.e., researchers who have carried out top class research in their field, with the opportunity to develop and strengthen their research ideas as well as their competencies as independent research leaders of other researchers. The funding instrument also aims at promoting careers, international as well as national mobility among research environments, and to strengthen networks. 
Sapere Aude: DFF-Research Leader are targeted at top researchers who intend to gather a group of researchers and/or research students to carry out a research project at a high, international level. Sapere Aude: DFF-Research Leader furthermore strengthens the possibility for excellent younger researchers to return to a Danish research institution after a research stay abroad.

  • DFF-Research Project2 to advance the quality of, and develop collaboration within Danish research, DFF offers funding for research projects carried out by multiple researchers (e.g. postdoctoral candidates and PhD students). A DFF-Research Project2 is often characterised by a coordinated and mutually binding collaboration on a well-defined, joint research question; however, it may also be a project formulated by a single researcher, which is to be carried out in their research team, when it can be argued that the project is particularly ambitious and resource demanding, and that the research objective cannot be obtained through a DFF-Research Project1. The research activities must establish synergy among any subprojects, involve international collaboration (if relevant), and be of a high, international standard.

  • Carlsberg Grants for outreach and dissemination, research stays, research infrastructure, etc.
  • DFF-International Postdoctoral Grant aims to strengthen the international mobility of younger talented researchers, and to develop the competencies of researchers in the beginning of their research career. The intention is to enable the grant recipient to consolidate their individual research profile by independently managing a concrete research project at a research institution abroad.
  • The Villum Experiment Programme targets those research proposals out of the ordinary that challenge the norm and have the potential to change fundamentally the way we approach important topics. The applicant is anonymous to the review panel. 
    KU funding (between 30-70 K) is available for conferences or schools, either via the NBI Fund, a rolling call, or through the KU yearly call.

Outside Denmark