Deadline: 14-Aug-25
The Novo Nordisk Foundation is seeking applications for its Reducing Childhood Vulnerability – Health Promotion in Social Initiatives aimed at reducing health inequalities among children.
With this call, the foundation will support high-quality projects that aim to integrate elements from the health sector into social interventions for children in vulnerable positions in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Applicants can apply for support to projects with a focus on improving the health of children in vulnerable positions by integrating health promoting efforts into social initiatives. Health can include both physical and mental health and/or the link between them.
Projects can focus on developing, testing, implementing and/or evaluating initiatives and innovative approaches aimed at promoting health among children in vulnerable positions. The target group is 0-10-year-old children in vulnerable positions, who can also be targeted through interventions focused on the family arena or professionals surrounding them.
Purpose
- The purpose of the call is:
- to give children in vulnerable positions better opportunities for living a healthy life
- foster models of cross-sectoral interventions that consider both social and health aspects
- gain knowledge about methods on how to best support children in vulnerable positions in living a healthy life
- build capacity and mature organisations working with inequity in health.
Funding Information
- A total of up to DKK 35 million is available for grants between DKK 1 million and DKK 4 million for projects lasting between 1 to 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following eligibility criteria apply:
- During the grant period, the main applicant must be a manager or project manager employed at a non-profit organisation or a public institution in Denmark, Greenland, or the Faroe Islands.
- Research institutions may be co-applicants and be included in the budget but cannot be the main applicant.
- Private corporations may be collaborators to the project but cannot be included in the budget to receive funding, other than the purchase of goods or services on market terms, as required in order to carry out the Project.
- The applicant must present a clear evaluation component for the project.
- The applicant must present a logic model covering the long-term objectives and expected impact of the project.
- The project must be carried out in collaboration between minimum two sectors i.e., the health area and the social area.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The Foundation will not award funding for:
- Commercial activities
- Buildings
- Overhead/indirect costs (such as rent, electricity, water and maintenance)
- Double funding of projects.
Assessment Criteria
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Committee on Inequity in Health will assess the applications based on the following criteria:
- The relevance and importance of the project, and a clear alignment with the call purpose.
- The project’s professional quality and grounding in existing knowledge and research, as well as the solidity and feasibility of the project plan, timeline, and resource allocation.
- The inclusion of a user perspective in the development and/or implementation of the project.
- The qualifications and capacity of the applicant institution and project team.
- A strong cross-sectorial collaboration with a minimum of two partners from two different sectors i.e., the health area and the social area.
- The project’s anchoring in existing structures and potential for scaling, and a clear plan for evaluation and knowledge sharing.
For more information, visit Novo Nordisk Foundation.
