Deadline: 3-Nov-21
The Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) is offering 2022 Challenge Programme on Energy Materials with Biological to make substantial contribution to the development and strengthening of the Danish research environment, within research aimed to solve major challenges in global health, technology and sustainability.
The Challenge Programme supports excellent researchers, that will establish and collaborate in a dynamic centre structure with a unifying vision and mission.
The Programme provides long-term funding to enable scientific depth and focus and facilitate synergy between the research partners.
Themes
- The programme strategically targets specific challenges within annually selected research themes. For the 2022 application call, the Challenge Programme supports the following research theme:
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- Energy harvesting, transforming, or storage materials with potential use for bioelectronic devices – enabling next generation wearable or implantable health technologies
- The overall aim of enabling novel applications within the life- or biosciences, the challenge is to design, model, synthesize, and/or characterize novel bio-compatible energy materials.
- The focus is on energy harvesting, transforming, or storage materials with potential application for health-tech wearables, implantable devices, or other bioelectronic applications. The research should also address biocompatibility and potential toxicological or mechanically adverse effects.
- The research must be in-depth, preferably cross- or inter-disciplinary, of fundamental character and may include any research methodology or discipline within the life-, natural- or technical-sciences. Material characterization in large-scale facilities as, e.g., MAX-IV or ESS could be a part of the proposed research.
- Non-excluding examples include:
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- Material research of bio-compatible energy materials for harvesting, transforming, or storage systems with potential use in bioelectronics devices.
- Material research for developing soft bioelectronic interfaces or biomimetic flexible materials.
- Applications in health wearables or implantable devices, including powering of bioelectronic sensors.
- Computationally driven bio-energy-materials development and modelling using artificial intelligence.
Funding Information
- A total of up to DKK 120 million is available for grants between DKK 30 million and DKK 60 million for projects running for up to 6 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Challenge Programme supports excellent research leaders from 2-4 research groups (main applicant plus 1-3 co-applicants).
- The programme leader must be at least 75% affiliated with a Danish university, hospital or other non-profit research organization, that will be considered the host institution of the project.
- The research institutions of the co-applicants can be located in Denmark or abroad. The co-applicants should contribute significantly to the advancement of the project and should receive part of the funding.
- Industry collaboration is possible; however, funding cannot be awarded to industrial partner(s).
For more information, visit https://novonordiskfonden.dk/da/grants/challenge-programme-2022-energy-materials-with-biological-applications/