Deadline: 18-Aug-22
The Novo Nordisk Foundation is seeking applications for the Exploratory Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme 2022 to strengthen the synergy between researchers, across disciplines, organizations and national borders.
The goal of the present programme is to explore the potential of a novel and creative idea. The project phase will support testing the basic concepts and generating the early data that can provide a firm basis for a more complex and expanded project stage.
Goals
The goals of the Exploratory Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme are to:
- Enable creative and novel, high-risk/high-gain interdisciplinary research
- Support early-stage attempts at attacking such novel interdisciplinary ideas
- Stimulate an emerging interdisciplinary research culture that spans across scientific disciplines and techniques
- Break down or overcome the barriers that exist between the different disciplines
- Strengthen and internationalize Danish research
Research Areas
Research funded under this programme must aim at reaching novel insight through interdisciplinary approaches to resolve complex challenges in relation to the Novo Nordisk Foundation core science areas:
- Basic biomedical research, clinical research and health science research
- Life science research, biotechnology and industrial applications promoting sustainability
- Natural and technical sciences research with potential applications in biomedicine or biotechnology
Funding Information
Up to DKK 5 million can be requested for a project running up to 3 years. The total budget for this call is DKK 53.75 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- The project should be based on a novel research idea, where the interdisciplinary challenges are at the centre. Such a novel interdisciplinary research direction is characterized by high-risk/high-gain elements and has potential for disruptive science and development of entirely new research areas.
- The definition of interdisciplinary research, which is targeted here, is collaboration across scientific and technical disciplines and where the researchers may not have a common language. It is important that the collaboration is not just founded on adding methods from one research field to another but strives to combine theories, methods, and concepts from different fields to develop new synergistic research results of broad interest.
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To be eligible for a grant:
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The main applicant should be at least 50% associated to a Danish university, hospital or other non-profit research organisation that will be considered the host institution of the project.
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The research groups of the co-applicants can be either located in Denmark or abroad. The co-applicants should significantly contribute to the scientific advancement of the project and receive part of the funding, as detailed under the budget, and shared by the host institution of the grant. Ideally, all applicants should have the same level of obligation and commitment to the project.
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Collaboration with industry is possible within this programme, however funding cannot be awarded to industrial partner(s).
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For more information, visit https://novonordiskfonden.dk/da/grants/exploratory-interdisciplinary-synergy-programme-2022/