Deadline: 27-Jan-22
With the Research Infrastructure Programme, the Novo Nordisk Fonden wishes to strengthen the Danish research environment by supporting the establishment and maintenance of infrastructures needed to achieve excellence in research and innovation.
Goals
The goal of the research program is to:
- Ensure that researchers have access to state-of-the-art research facilities.
- Ensure that potential users have access to qualified technical assistance.
- Ensure that the facilities and / or equipment is continuously developed and maintained.
- Boost the nearby research environment.
Areas
The infrastructure applied for should enable research and development within the Foundation’s strategic focus on biomedicine and health sciences, sustainability and biotechnology, and natural and technical sciences.
Specific overarching research fields can be:
- Biomedicine
- Clinical and translational medicine
- Industrial and environmental biotechnology
- Plant science, agriculture and food biotechnology
- Natural sciences with potential applications in biomedicine or biotechnology
- Technical sciences with potential applications in biomedicine or biotechnology
Funding Information
Each grant can be of DKK 5-25 million, for a period of up to five years. The total grant capital in 2022 is DKK 150 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be employed and have his / her primary affiliation as senior scientist, associate professor, or professor, at a university or other not-for-profit research institution in Denmark. The applicant must document expertise at the highest level within the relevant research field.
- The research infrastructure must be established at a Danish research institution with expertise within the relevant field. This is to ensure that the infrastructure develops in parallel with the scientific progress in the area, and that there are qualified personnel to operate and maintain the equipment, as well as to supervise others in its use.
- Besides the applicant, there must be a number of core collaborators associated with Danish research environments, committed to be core users of the equipment or facility. A total of 3-5 core collaborators is advisable in order to ensure enough users of the facility. Core collaborators signify researchers for whom no funding is requested in the budget, but who will be involved in the proposed supported research. In this context, an industrial partner could also be a core collaborator. Other collaborators relevant for the infrastructure may be mentioned in the project description, eg, international collaborators. It is an advantage, if core collaborators also encompass researchers from national research institutions outside the main applicant’s research institution.
- An applicant may submit only one application per call.
- As this grant does not allow funding for the applicant’s salary, the applicant must be able to account for own salary during the entire grant period applied for.
- NNF does not allow double funding of project-specific expenses. If an applicant has applied for, or has received, funding for the project or parts of the project from others, this must be detailed in the budget of the application. If the applicant receives funding for the project or parts of the project from other sources following submission of the NNF application, NNF must be contacted immediately.
- It is not possible to hold more than one active Research Infrastructure grant. Researchers with an active grant may apply for a new grant during the final year of the grant, however, a new grant cannot be activated until the existing grant is completed and no longer active.
- It is permitted to hold two or more active grants of different types, ie, researchers with an active Infrastructure grant may apply for a new grant of a different type, eg, project grant.
For more information, visit https://novonordiskfonden.dk/da/grants/research-infrastructure-large-equipment-and-facilities-2022/