Research funding

Upcoming deadlines for project outlines

If you want to apply for funding, through one of the calls listed below, for a project to be housed at the Saxo Institute, please forward a project outline (at least one page) and a draft for a staffing plan to research support consultant, Mads Torbenfeldt Christoffersen, xml234@hum.ku.dk, no later than 8 August 2023. This information will be presented to the management at the Saxo Institute for approval of housing conditions.

Download template for staffing plan (Excel).

Current opportunities

Overview
Click on the link under each call/foundation for details.

Detailed descriptions of the calls

DFF (Independent Research Fund Denmark)

• DFF Research Project 2
  Funding of up to 4.3 million DKK, excluding overhead, for a duration of up to 4.5 years for a collaborative project. The applicant must have a PhD age of at least 8 years.
  Deadline for submission to DFF: 11 October 2023
• Sapere Aude: DFF Starting Grant
  Funding of up to 4.3 million DKK, excluding overhead, for a duration of up to 4.5 years for a collaborative project. The applicant must have a PhD age of no more than 8 years (leave can be deducted in the calculation of PhD age) .Deadline for submission to DFF: 10 October 2023
• DFF International Postdoctoral Grant
  Postdoc Fellowships of up to 1.5 million DKK, excluding overhead, for a duration of 2 years with at least 12 consecutive months abroad. To be eligible, you must have obtained a PhD degree, expect to submit your dissertation for defence within 12 months and your PhD age must not exceed 3 years at the expiration of the application deadline (leave can be deducted in the calculation of PhD age).
  Deadline for submission to DFF: 31 October 2023
• Explorative Network | Humanities
  Up to 550.000 DKK for a duration of up to 3 years for collaboration between different Danish and, ideally, international research environments. The network is expected to facilitate the exploration of new opportunities across institutions, research traditions and scientific fields, though with the main emphasis on the fields that fall within the scope of DFF | Humanities. Funding will only be provided for the establishment of new networks and not for funding of research projects. Applicants must as a minimum be at associate professor/senior researcher level.
  Deadline for submission to DFF: 5 September 2023
• International Research Stays | Social Sciences
  Up to 200.000 DKK excluding overhead for research stays at a foreign research institution for consecutive periods of at least 3 months. Funding is provided for coverage of expenses related to your research stay, and not for salaries or non-research related expenses such as travelling and housing expenses for accompanying spouse and children, child care expenses, schooling expenses, etc. In order to apply, you must have obtained a PhD degree or achieved equivalent qualifications through your research, and you must be employed at a research institution in Denmark.
  Deadline for submission to DFF: 5 September 2023

Read the English version of the call, including descriptions of the various instruments, at dff.dk (pdf)

For Danish (pdf)

Carlsberg Foundation: Ordinary research call
Ordinary call 2023. Instruments relevant for housing at the Saxo Institute:

• Semper Ardens Accomplish:
  7-10 million DKK for five-year grants for recently tenured internationally recognised professors to pursue innovative and ambitious research projects. Projects that venture into new scientific territory will be prioritised. The applicant must be a recently tenured internationally recognised professor who has been appointed for a maximum of three years at the date of the application deadline.
• Semper Ardens Accelerate:
  Up to 5 million DKK for three-year grants to newly appointed tenured associate professors to establish an independent research group or research environment, including the acquisition of research infrastructure (equipment, register data, etc.) and the formation of national/international networks. The applicant must be a tenured associate professor who has been appointed for a maximum of two years at the date of the application deadline.
• Reintegration Fellowships:
  Two-year postdoctoral fellowship at a Danish research institution subsequent to an Internationalisation Fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation or another research stay abroad. Applicants with more than five years’ of experience since obtaining their PhD degree are not eligible (periods of leave can be deducted in the calculation of the PhD age). The Reintegration Fellowships are only awarded to postdoctoral fellows with strong connection to Danish research and a previous research stay abroad.
• Monograph Fellowships:
  One-year full-time fellowships for leading, visionary researchers within the humanities or social sciences with a project aimed at producing a ground-breaking monograph or advanced Danish doctoral dissertation. Monograph fellowships are only awarded to tenured senior researchers with 5–20 years of past tenure as an associate professor, senior researcher or professor.
• Research Infrastructure:
  Support for procurement of research infrastructure, i.e. the purchase of equipment, register data and databases as well as the establishment of corpora and development of research tools. Applicants must be tenured associate professors/senior researchers or professors. There is no maximum to the amount applied for.
• Field Trips / Research Stays:
  Funding for expenses related to field trips abroad and research stays at international research institutions with a budget exceeding DKK 100,000. The applicant must be at associate professor/senior researcher or professor level.

Deadline for submission of applications to the Carlsberg Foundation for all the instruments listed above: 1 October 2023.
The call also includes funding opportunities for postdoc fellowships abroad, which cannot be hosted and administrated by the Saxo Institute.
Go to Carlsbergfondet.dk for an overview of the different calls instruments.

Carlsberg Foundation: Science Communication call
The Carlsberg Foundation has also initiated a new science communication initiative which includes the following instruments:

• Carlsberg Mindelegat:
  Funding to promote knowledge, popular education and general interest in science and research. This includes strengthening science and the current position of research in society and in public conversation and debate. Support for communication projects for a period of maximum two years with an application amount of DKK 50,000-200,000. The applicant must as a minimum have a PhD and be affiliated to a Danish research institution.
• Science Communication:
  Funding range of 100.000 – 3 million DKK for science communication projects to promote knowledge, popular education and general interest in science and research. Applicants must have documented professional experience with communication, e.g. journalism or media production.

Deadline for submission of proposals for these calls is 1 September 2023.
For more about calls and guidelines go to carlsbergfondet.dk

ERC Consolidator Grants
Up to 2 million EUR for a project with a duration of up to five years. For researchers with a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal. Applicants are eligible if they have 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (extensions are possible under certain circumstances).
Tentative deadline for submission to ERC: 12 December 2023
Read more about ERC Consolidator Grants at erc.europa.eu

CHANSE – Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe and HERA – Humanities in the European Research Area: “Crisis – Perspectives from the Humanities”
Call funded through national agencies in 23 European countries within the collaboration CHANSE and HERA. Proposals should concern humanities-led international projects, which will address innovative outlooks on the phenomena of crises past and present.
Project teams must be composed of at least four and maximum six Principal Investigators, i.e. partners, eligible to receive funding from four or more different countries participating in the call. The duration of a project can be of up to 3 years and funding per project can be up to a maximum amount of 1 500 000 € (across all partners). 
Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) is funding Danish participation in the call. Project Leaders (PL) and Principal Investigators (PI) at Danish institutions must be able to document independent research experience typically corresponding to 3 years of research after having obtained a PhD (or similar qualifications) in order to be eligible.
Deadline for outline proposals: 21 September, 2023.
For more about the call and guidelines go to chanse.org

Innovation Fund Denmark: Industrial Researcher (postdoc and PhD fellowships)
Funding of up to half of the salary for postdocs or PhD fellows for employment in a public sector organization or a private company and affiliation/enrollment at the university. Fellows are expected to divide their time equally between the organization/company and the research institution. Innovation Fund Denmark supports Industrial Researcher projects that fall within one of these three themes: a) Green research, technology development and innovation b) Life science, health and welfare technology c) Strategic and challenge-driven research and innovation in new technologies. In addition to the above, part of the funding in the Industrial Researcher program is without thematization. There are also specific calls for PhD and postdoc fellowship in Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Deadline for submission to Innovation Fund Denmark: 12 September 2023
Read the various calls for Industrial Researcher at innovationsfonden.dk

All potential applicants, currently not employed at the Saxo Institute, need to submit an updated CV, a list of publications and a description of collaboration at the Saxo Institute along with the project outline.

Applicants for PhD fellowships should also forward a transcript of grades and an approval of supervision from a Saxo researcher. Applicants, who wish to be enrolled as a PhD fellow at the Saxo Institute, but hired by another institution, should furthermore forward an approval from the hiring institution.

If you want to apply for an instrument or foundation not listed above, please contact research support consultant Mads Torbenfeldt Christoffersen, xml234@hum.ku.dk, well in advance and no later than 10 weeks before the submission deadline.