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On the UNESCO International Day of Light, The Daylight Award announces the 2020 Laureates: Juhai Leiviskä for his architecture, Russell Foster for his research, and exceptionally for this year The Daylight Award is given to Henry Plummer for his Lifetime Achievement

Lykke Ogstrup Lunde joins the board of VELUX FONDEN.

VILLUM FONDEN has chosen the inaugural grantees for its Villum Synergy programme to support interdisciplinary data-driven science. Two full projects and six initiation projects will receive a total of DKK 52.5 million.

Eight stand-out researchers have secured grants from the new VILLUM FONDEN Villum International Postdoc programme for women in science and technology.

With 15 grants, this year's new team of young talents will be able to form their own research groups.

This year's recipient of the Annual Award, professor Rasmus Nielsen, tells the big story of mankind’s evolution by studying the smallest genetic differences. The internationally acclaimed Danish scientist reveals humanity's past and evolution through patterns in genomes. On 23 January 2020, he receives the Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award of DKK 5 million.

With his penchant for construction and wood, strong developmental drive and unique professionalism, Lauritz Rasmussen has worked for 30 years making prefabricated wooden elements into central building components in modern construction. In November, he received the Building Component Award 2019 for his dedicated and tenacious work.

Seven research projects from three Danish universities have received a total of DKK 41 mio. from the VELUX FONDEN core-group programme for research in the humanities. Early-career academics are well represented, the foundation notes

Batteries from rust, bubbles in ice. VILLUM FONDEN awards DKK 98.5 million in grants to 52 bold research projects within the technical and natural sciences.

A new VILLUM FONDEN programme aims to support the advancement of talented postdoc women in international research careers.

VILLUM FONDEN introduces grants for interdisciplinary data-driven research.

VILLUM FONDEN, Danish National Research Foundation, Carlsberg Foundation, Lundbeck Foundation and Novo Nordisk Foundation grant a total of 1 billion DKK for basic research aimed at solving major societal challenges .

VELUX FONDEN has funded a research and dissemination project, which is a partnership between Museum of Copenhagen, Odense Museums, the Nya Lödöse project and Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (Urbnet) at Aarhus University.

Biologist Henrik Lauridsen has conducted research in the pale fish: the icefish, which inhabit the icy waters of Antarctica's Southern Ocean. Read more about his research project.

From 14 March to 22 July 2019, the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris focuses on the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi with a special exhibition. The exhibition is funded by VILLUM FONDEN.

Royal inauguration of the new Danish hospital for patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Sønderborg: Dansk Gigthospital. VILLUM FONDEN has funded the establishment of the new hospital with DKK 50 million.

Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi is a pioneering figure in the field of nanooptics - and now he is the recipient of the Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award.

In 2018, VILLUM FONDEN and VELUX FONDEN made a total of DKK 888 million in philanthropic grants. Read more about the projects the money went to in our latest yearbook.

Sugar dating, Parkinson's patients dancing, role models for young people with autism and holistic approaches to prevent social marginalisation. Four projects have received grants from VELUX FONDEN's HUMpraxis programme.

VILLUM FONDEN held a workshop for academics in October. The target group was the researchers who had received a VILLUM Experiment grant in 2017 or 2018.

Professor Jens Nørskov receives the prestigious Niels Bohr International Gold Medal. He is a Villum Kann Rasmussen professor and director of the new Catalysis Theory Center at DTU.

A group of active senior citizens has raised awareness of bees to a new level with an exhibition on beekeeping on Langeland. VELUX FONDEN has funded the project - including the photo shoots.

VELUX FONDEN has granted six concrete analysis projects to contribute to more solid knowledge for the management of the Danish marine environment.

Erik Michael Darre has been elected new member of the board of VELUX FONDEN. He is a surgeon general, former Chief of the Danish Defence Health Service and a specialist in orthopedic surgery.