VILLUM FONDEN has granted a total of DKK 14 million to six researchers under the new Villum International Postdoc programme. The programme is targeted at outstanding female researchers in the technical and natural sciences. The grantees’ research projects range from sustainability in construction and the adaptation of fish species to rising water temperatures.
VELUX FONDEN supports initiatives that allow socially disadvanted people to participate actively in social communities. The foundation is awarding five projects a total of DKK 11.5 million to develop and test new ways of motivating young immigrant women and people with mental health problems and physical illnesses to take part as volunteers. At the same time, it is starting an evaluation of the initiatives.
The topography of love, the norms of anger, Buddhism and consumption. With grants from VELUX FONDEN’s core group programme, seven humanities research projects provide new perspectives on, among other things, our feelings, politics and religion.
VELUX FONDEN is focusing on the development of methods to improve parental involvement among socially disadvantaged families. Three new grants are being issued to projects centred on play and learning among children in daycare centres, school-home collaboration and young people with self-harm tendencies.
51 researchers are receiving grants to test their bold and strange research ideas in technical and natural sciences. The projects have been selected from among nearly 500 applications that have been through an anonymous selection process.
VELUX FONDEN has granted DKK 2m to a research study aimed at creating knowledge about how voluntary social organisations best recruit and retain volunteers.
On 7 August, Executive Director Ane Hendriksen celebrated 25 years with VELUX FONDEN. Her work-related silver anniversary will be celebrated with several small-scale events with employees, business associates and family.
VELUX FONDEN has commissioned VIVE to map the relationship between young people’s well-being and their digital behaviour. The researchers point out that young people who feel lonely are more likely to spend time in front of the screen than young people who are flourishing.
The use of medication by the elderly is associated with a wide range of risks. With funding from VELUX FONDEN, three research projects will focus on how serious errors in the use of medication for elderly patients can be minimised.
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
Thirteen human and social data collection projects will examine how the Covid-19 crisis affects our lives and society. The VELUX FONDEN Board of Directors has decided to provide a total of DKK 5.5 million for the projects.
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.
The UN International Oceanographic Commission and VELUX FONDEN are bringing together leading maritime foundations in Copenhagen 27-28 February. The aim is to foster alliance-building and discuss how to improve our maritime environment
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 an ambitious initiative worth DKK 100 million over ten years, VILLUM FONDEN and VELUX FONDEN aim to make the democratic development of the future data-driven Denmark stronger.
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.
Frede Blaabjerg is awarded an international energy award. Karl Anker Jørgensen is selected for a HC Ørsted Gold Medal. And Morten Mattrup Smedskjær receives the Grundfos Prize. All three are VILLUM FONDEN grantees.
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.
The Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, has acquired one of the world's largest private collections of Baltic amber. VILLUM FONDEN, Augustinus Fonden and Knud Højgaards Fond have funded the acquisition.
A diverse group of researchers - from doctors and pharmacists to ethnologists – were invited to share knowledge at a workshop on a sunny afternoon in May.
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.
11 recognised scientists have been chosen to become the next Villum Investigators. All of them have strong international experience, five of them come from abroad. Together, they will receive DKK 410 million from VILLUM FONDEN.
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.
Villum Experiment is VILLUM FONDENs programme for researchers who wish to challenge the norm. A research project will assess whether the programme meets the aim of funding bold and groundbreaking research.
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.
This year’s crop of highly talented early career academics selected to be Villum Young Investigators will receive a total of DKK 205 million from VILLUM FONDEN.
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.
A grant of DKK 20 million from VELUX FONDEN for a new research centre for marine plastic pollution brings skilled researchers across universities and disciplines together.
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.
