A total of DKK 117 million awarded to 48 Aarhus University researchers
AU researchers are among the 192 leading researchers in Denmark who have just received grants from the Carlsberg Foundation. The foundation has awarded approx. DKK 460 million to support Danish research.
The Carlsberg Foundation just made a generous gift to Danish research: DKK 460 million in grants to independent research projects within the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
The grants go to researchers at all stages of their careers, and their projects will advance our knowledge on many fronts – from the hormones that regulate blood sugar and food intake to the first black holes in the universe and AI’s potential for solving the mental health crisis. Other projects will explore the democratic foundations of evidence-based policy, the thermic tolerance of insects and continuity and change in life in the Arctic seas through 4,500 years of human presence.
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A total of DKK 117 million in grants went to 48 AU researchers, who received different types of grants.
All of the grants were within the framework of Carlsberg’s autumn 2023 call, the mission of which is to promote basic research at the highest international level and contribute to talent and career development in Danish research.
Director of the Carlsberg Foundation, Professor Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, says:
"I would like to congratulate all new grant recipients on being able to commence work on the research projects for which they applied for Carlsberg Foundation support this autumn. I'm particularly pleased that we’re in a position to award 42 early-career researchers different types of postdoc grants totalling almost DKK 50 million. Non-thematic funding for independent research by postdocs is urgently needed, as there is little external funding for early-career researchers in academia in Denmark. It's also very satisfying that we're able to award just over DKK 120 million to junior associate professors, who will now be able to consolidate their own research groups and thus contribute to innovation in their fields."
The grants went to 72 female researchers, 115 male researchers and five researchers who did not wish to disclose gender. Measured by the percentage of applicants who declared their gender, this results in an overall success rate for female applicants of 24.6 per cent and 22.1 per cent for male applicants.
The coverage is based on a press release from Carlsberg Foundation.