The Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) is seeking applications for its Research Infrastructure Programme to strengthen the Danish research environment by supporting the establishment and maintenance of open infrastructures needed to achieve excellence in research and innovation.
Goals
The goal of the research programme is to:
Ensure that researchers have access to state-of-the-art research facilities.
Ensure that potential users have access to qualified technical assistance.
Ensure that the research infrastructure is continuously developed and maintained.
Boost other research environments, local, national, or international.
Areas of Support
The infrastructure applied for should enable research and development within the Foundation’s strategic focus on biomedicine and health sciences, sustainability and biotechnology, and natural and technical sciences.
Specific overarching research fields can be:
Biomedicine
Clinical and translational medicine
Industrial and environmental biotechnology
Plant science, agriculture and food biotechnology
Natural sciences with potential applications in health or sustainability
Technical sciences with potential applications in health or sustainability
Computational science, including data science, with potential applications in health or sustainability
Funding Information
Each grant can be of DKK 5-25 million, for a period of up to five years. The total grant capital in 2023 is DKK 130 million.
Eligibility Criteria
The applicant must be employed at a university or other not-for-profit research institution in Denmark. The applicant must document expertise at the highest level within the relevant research field.
The research infrastructure must be anchored at a Danish research institution with expertise within the relevant field. The facility or equipment must be made available to the general scientific environment, incl. users from other institutions, SME’s and incubators.
Besides the applicant, there must be a group of 3-5 core collaborators associated with Danish research environments, committed to be core users of the equipment or facility.
