Deadline: 27-Oct-21
The Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) is seeking applications for its Challenge Programme 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 is a strategic effort targeting specific challenges within annually selected research themes. For the 2022 application call, the Challenge Programme is seeking to support the following research theme:
- Recycling for a Sustainable Society
- Linear use of resources for the production of food, chemicals, materials, energy and other goods drives depletion and pollutes the environment. Therefore, recycling of individual constituents or components present in waste or side-streams is essential to ensure sustainability and promote circular use of resources.
- This Challenge Programme is aimed at research for development of new bio-inspired methods and technologies for conversion, recovery and extraction of resources and raw materials from waste, residuals and side-streams.
Funding Information
- Each Challenge Programme application can request funding for up to approximately DKK 10 million per year for up to 6 years, for a total budget of DKK 30-60 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Challenge Programme supports excellent research leaders from 2-4 groups (main applicant plus 1-3 co-applicants).
- The programme leader should be at least 75% employed at a Danish university, hospital or other non-profit research organization, that will be considered the host institution of the project. Levels of association of less than 75% at the Danish institution must be justified.
- 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 the industrial partner(s).
For more information, visit https://novonordiskfonden.dk/da/grants/challenge-programme-2022-recycling-for-a-sustainable-society/