Deadline: 01-Sep-2025
Applications are now open for the Carlsberg Mindelegat Grants to promote collaborations between researchers and professional communicators in order to strengthen research and the position of science in society and in public conversation and debate.
Purpose
- Support communication of basic research and science to non-scientific audiences
- Support researchers’ communication of their own research
- Strengthen the communication skills of researchers and contribute to a steady increase in the participation of researchers in public conversation and debate
- Promote relationships and collaboration between researchers and professional communicators
- Increase public interest in, and curiosity about, science, scientific themes and current research
- Strengthen awareness of, and confidence in, reliable scientific sources, partly with a view to countering disinformation with fact-based knowledge
Funding Information
- Communication projects for a period of maximum two years with an application amount of DKK 50,000-200,000.
Eligible Costs
- Costs associated with the production of communication content
- Payment of professional communicators and any student assistants
- Costs associated with the development of communication platforms
- Costs associated with the communication and distribution of the project, including making the project accessible free of charge on payment platforms
Ineligible Costs
- Projects with an applied scientific focus or clinical health-scientific research
- Projects focused on educational recruitment
- Projects focused on media training of as well as coaching and teaching communication to researchers
- Purely commercial purposes
- Research publications and teaching materials
- Information campaigns
- Hosting or participating in conferences, workshops and courses
- Citizen Science projects
- Buy-out (salary) of the applicant or other researchers
- Remuneration for the applicant or other researchers
Eligible Projects
- The project must be based on the applicant’s own research or research field.
- The project must involve collaboration with professional communicators with documented experience of e.g. journalism or media production.
Eligibility Criteria
- Carlsberg Mindelegat can be applied for by researchers with a current affiliation to a Danish research institution.
- The applicant must, as a minimum, have obtained a PhD degree.
Application Requirements
- The application must be submitted through the application system CF-Grant.
- The application must be written in either Danish or English.
- The documents must be uploaded in PDF format.
- Required documents to be attached to the application form:
- Project description
- Two A4 pages
- Production and distribution plan
- One A4 page in the Carlsberg Mindelegat template
- Budget
- Carlsberg Mindelegat budget template
- Curriculum vitae
- One A4 page
- Documents to be attached to the application form, if relevant:
- Curriculum vitae of collaboration partners
- One A4 page per collaboration partner
- Declarations of commitment
- Project description:
- The project description must not exceed two A4 pages including photos, figures, tables, etc., using Times New Roman, font size 12, margins on the left, right, top and bottom of at least 2 cm and line spacing of 1.5.
- The formatting requirements only apply to the project description and not the other required documents.
- The project description must contain a description of the project, including an account of collaboration partners, target groups and accessibility (platform, media or similar).
For more information, visit Carlsberg Foundation.
