Deadline: 23-Feb-22
The VELUX Foundation is inviting applications for the Humanities and Practice Programme 2022 that aims to promote collaboration between research in the humanities and practice within its social projects and environment programmes.
Focusing on research in the humanities VELUX FONDEN will seek to promote equal collaborations between researchers and partners within its social projects and environment programmes, which are both important funding areas in the foundation’s philantropic work.
Professionals from practice will be able to contribute with insight into urgent and difficult issues, conditions of everyday life and the systemic and organisational possibilities and barriers within the areas of social projects (including the aging population) and environment.
Researchers within the humanities will be able to contribute research-based development of a more profound and extensive insight into the challenges which the programmes are facing and may be able to suggest new realisation and solutions to the benefit of society.
VELUX FONDEN wishes to strengthen this social value and make it visible by grants to interdisciplinary and closely integrated research and development projects. They have allocated up to DKK 30 million for grants annually.
Project Ideas
They now invite applicants to submit project ideas within:
- The social area: They want projects that focus on social sustainability for people in a socially disadvantaged position among children, young people, adults or the elderly, and that raise the voices and power of action of these citizens to a greater participation in democracy.
- The environmental area: They want projects that focus on sustainable solutions within society’s major natural, climate and environmental challenges.
For What can the funds be used?
Funds can be applied for:
- Free purchase / salary for practice actors, project employees and project management.
- PhD or postdoc scholarships as well as redemption of permanent researchers.
- Practice-related activities.
- Project-specific costs in connection with operation, publications, meetings, conferences etc.
- Dissemination of results and anchoring of methods and activities.
Requirements for Applicants
- The project must identify a societal issue that has to do with social and / or environmental sustainability, and must contribute with a solution to this.
- The research and practice parts must be established and closely integrated in the overall project design and be each other’s prerequisites. Pure research projects or pure development projects are not supported.
- Both practice and research institutions can apply. The research part must be handled by university researchers from humanities disciplines, ie. all humanities and the most closely related social science subjects (anthropology, psychology, political science and sociology) as well as the humanities parts of public health science. Other subject areas can also be included in the project as a supplement. Vocational colleges and other institutions with research activity can be included in projects together with university researchers.
- Senior researchers at associate professor or professor level must be included.
- The project must contain basic scientific elements, ie. contain theory development and do not consist exclusively of follow-up research, data collection or evaluation. Projects where the research part is solely follow-up research will not be considered.
- Up to DKK 5.5 million can be applied for. DKK, but smaller projects are also welcome.
- The redemption of permanent university researchers should be limited to a maximum of 10% of the amount applied for.
- The project must not directly promote specific commercial interests, purposes or parties.
For more information, visit https://veluxfoundations.dk/da/invitation-humanvidenskab-og-praksis