Danish Funding System - an overview
If you like and introduction to the Danish funding system, you can now download a PDF with links to English sites here .

For an overview over supporting possibilities check as well the sides of Square One. Here you can search a database for current calls.

Danish Council for Independent Research (Det Frie Forskningsråd) has changed their evaluation policy and uses now more external referees. Therefore the main application deadline has moved from September to March 1st .

Det Fire Forskningsråd takes care of researcher initiated "curiosity driven" research.
Most interesting for nanotechnology are the following Councils:
Council for Technology and Production Sciences (Rådet for Teknologi og Produktion)
Natural Science Research Council (Rådet for Natur og Univers)
Medical Research Council (Rådet for Sundhed og Sygdom).

Deadline for applications: March 1st, 2010
Find the Call in Danish
December 2009

Villum Kann Rasmussen Grants

If you plan to apply for a post doc, VKR has posted a call on the 13. Nov 2009. You will have to apply online and you will get an answer January or February. If you need help with your applications you are welcome to contact Square One.
Notice: VKR primarily supports Danish citizens who want to go abroad for a post doc or post docs abroad who want to come to Denmark. You cannot apply, if you are working as a post doc at the SDU and want to stay.
Deadline: December 7, 2009.

Details (in Danish)
November 2009

HTF, the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation has announced a new call for Hightechnology Projects and Hightechnology Platforms

Write your letter of interest for projects between 2,5-15 Million DKK.
Write you letter of interest for platforms between 15-75 Million DKK.

Projects:
An advanced technology project is a partnership between one or more private companies and
one or more public sector research institutions. At the end of the funding period there should be a new product.

Platforms:
An advanced technology platform is a partnership between one or more private companies and
one or more public sector research institutions. The aim is to develop new groundbreaking technology to open up new commercial aktivities within different fields for all partners.

Deadline for an expression of interest: January 27, 2010, 12:00 o'clock
Details: http://www.hoejteknologifonden.dk
November 2009

International network programme from the Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation: Support is given for cooperation with one or several of the following countries: China, India, Israel, Japan, USA and Brasil. Support includes workshops, conferences and visiting scientists grants.
Deadline: December 1st, 2009.

Details in Danish
October 2009

Preprojects til EUs 7th framework programme

Support is given to small and medium sized companies for expenses in connection with the preparation of an EU FP7 project.

Deadline: October 21 and November 25
Details in Danish
September 2009

PHD support fra Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN) FP7 programme:

Support for 4 years contracts for PhD education is given via ITN in all subjects. Private and public organisations can apply for support, but there is the need for minimum 3 EU countries to participate in each application.

There are additional ways to gain support, read more under Details.

Deadline: 22.12.2009, 17 o'clock.
Details in Danish
Details on CORDIS
September 2009

Carlsberg Fonden: The Foundation supports basic science.
Deadline: October 1st, 2009
Details: https://carlsbergfondet-online.dk/

New Calls under FP7: There are many open calls listed from the Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation
Deadlines have a wide range.
Please check the calls under CORDIS

30 new COST ( Europen Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research ) activities: The activities are open for Danish participation and represent a variety of scientific fields. The networks aim to strengthen cooperation in the respective field.
Deadline for applications to be a member in a specific action: September 1st, 2009
Read more
August 2009

Need a partner for an EU project within FP7 subject Energy?

On Tuesday, September 15 there will be a meeting in Brussels between the national contact points, industry and all interested within the field of Energy with the aim to help partner finding.

Deadline for registration: September 3, 2009
Read the announcement (in Danish)
July 2009

ESF research networking programmes

Deadline: October 22, 2009
Read the call (in Danish)
July 2009

Call for Innovation Consortia

An Innovation Consortium has a minimum of two companies and one public organisation such as an university involved. The cooperation should be around a project that has the potential for innovation in the companies during the following years.

Deadline: September 11, 2009
Read the call (in Danish)
July 2009

Autumn Call of the Danish Council for Independent Research (Det Frie Forskningsråd), which takes care of researcher initiated "curiosity driven" research

Most interesting for nanotechnology are the following Councils:
Council for Technology and Production Sciences (Rådet for Teknologi og Produktion)
Natural Science Research Council (Rådet for Natur og Univers)
Medical Research Council (Rådet for Sundhed og Sygdom).

Main deadline for proposals is September 1st, 2009.
Read the call (in Danish)
June 2009

Call for support of EU networks to enhance Danish participation in EU projects within science and development.
Deadline: September 30, 2009
Read the call (in Danish)
June 2009

Call for 'open support' (åbne midler')
Support is given to enhance collaboration between public and private sector. Proposals can ask for support up to 4 MDKK. The projects should not fit in under one of the other calls of the ministry.
Read the call (in Danish)
June 2009

HTF, the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation has announced a new call for letters of interest for Hightechnology Projects

Write your letter of interest for projects between 2,5-15 Million DKK.
Topics: Energy and Environment, Bio/medico, IT/Tele, Production, Food and Buiding sector.

Projects
An advanced technology project is a partnership between one or more private companies and
one or more public sector research institutions. At the end of the funding period there should be a new product.

Deadline: September 1st, 2009, 12:00 o'clock
Details: http://www.hoejteknologifonden.dk
Mai 2009

The Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation Calls:

Elite Forsk: Travel grants for the most talented PhD students. Grants are 300000 DKK and kan be used to study at some of the best foreign scientific institutions. Deadline: September 1, 2009.

Elite Forsk Price: Also in 2009 there are five prizes for scientists of different working fields. The scientist have to be under 45 years and should be internationally accredited. Deadline: September 1, 2009.

Call of European Science Foundation (ESF) Explorative Workshops - 2009

The program aims to support workshops within 2010 on a European level to find out about possible new research partners. The following topics will be supported:

• Biomedical Sciences
• Life Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Humanities
• Science driven issues of Research Infrastructures in any of the above fields

Deadline for proposals: April 30, 2009, 16:00 o'clock

Call of D-Artemis - The Danish Embedded Systems Consortium:
The D-ARTEMIS project (Danish Artemis), aims at assembling all Danish actors from the domain of embedded systems/pervasive computing to a concerted effort. The purpose is to achieve an increased Danish participation in the large and relevant projects which are supported with dedicated funding for the Artemis initiative, approx. 2,5 billion Euro.

Deadline for a project outline: April 15, 2009 Details

Call from The Danish Councils for strategic research (Det Strategiske Forskningsråd): one billion dedicated to targeted research based on policy initiatives.

Scientific topics are:

Health, Food and Welfare
Sustainable Energy and Environment
Climate and Climate adaptation

Strategic research within growing technologies: nanotechnology, biotechnology, information- and communication technology, intelligent societal solutions

Strategic research within creative and innovative society

Calls in English, Calls in Danish

Deadlines vary between April an May 2009.
March 2009

Call for applications for Visiting Scholarships at Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society at University of California (CITRIS)

Scientists and PhD-students at Danish Universities get the chance to spend up to 6 month at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced og UC Santa Cruz.

Deadline for submission of proposals: Monday 30 March 2009 at 1 pm.
Details
March 2009

Northern European Innovative Energy Research Programme 2009-2012
2nd Call for Proposals

The Academy of Finland, Research Council of Norway, Swedish Energy Agency, Danish Council for Strategic Research, Estonian Science Foundation, Projektträger Jülich and Nordic Energy Research
invite research proposals for the programme Northern European Innovative Energy Research (N-INNER 2)

Deadline for Pre Proposal: March 15, 2009
February, 20, 2009

Spring Call of the Danish Council for Independent Research (Det Frie Forskningsråd), which takes care of researcher initiated "curiosity driven" research

Most interesting for nanotechnology are the following Councils:
Council for Technology and Production Sciences (Rådet for Teknologi og Produktion)
Natural Science Research Council (Rådet for Natur og Univers)
Medical Research Council (Rådet for Sundhed og Sygdom).

Main deadline for proposals is March 2, 2009.
Read the call (in Danish)
January, 15, 2009

Support for the preparation of EU proposals:
Euro Center will help with all four possibilities described below.
Contact Melanie Büscher .

'Koordinatorpuljen': Danish companies and scientific institutions that coordinate an EU project under the 7th framework programme (FP7) can ask for support of their expenses in connection with this coordinating work, e.g., contract negotiations. The support can be up to 65000 DKK.
Details
There is no call at the moment.
January 16

'EU-forprojektordningen': New projects of small and medium sized companies with the aim to participate in an EU programm (FP7). They can gain support for the expenses they have in connection with the preparation of the proposal. These could be expenses for further development of the project idea, costs that arise in finding the right partners or extra costs that arise when writing the proposal.

Deadlines for applications in 2009 are: January 14, February 25, April 16 and June 3.
Details

START:The preparation of a project under FP7 and other international applications can be supportet via ' Det Frie forkningsråd'.
Without deadline.

Netværkspuljen: Persons that preparate the participation of Danish networks in big EU applications can get support. The support is given via 'Det stratigiske Forskningsråd'.

New call within the Nano programme of FP7: EU calls in for projects within Nanoscience and -technology, materials and new production methods. There are different deadlines:

Collaborative projects (CP) step 1: February 17, 2009 at 17.00 o'clock
Coordination and Support Actions (CSA): March 31, 2009 at 17.00 o'clock
Coordinated calls with Russia: March 31, 2009 at 17.00 o'clock

There are several topics involving surface nanoengineering, nanomaterials and thin films technology. Examples include the following topics and much more:
NMP-2009-2.2-1 Oxide materials for electronics applications
NMP-2009-2.5-1 Light high-performance composites
NMP-2009-4.0-3 Development of nanotechnology-based systems for molecular diagnostics and imaging
NMP-2009-1.2-1 Nanotechnology for harvesting energy via photovoltaic technologies
NMP-2009-4.0-5 Innovative and knowledge-based tooling industry(FP7-NMP-2009-SME-3)

For a quick look in some selected surface/thin fims topics descriptions you can go to:
http://nanotechnews.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/fp7-nmp-2009-call-open-nanosciences-and-nanotechnologies-materials-and-new-production-technologies/

Read details under Cordis

HTF( Højteknologifonden): Call for letters of interest to Hightechnology projects and platforms. It is possible to apply for support between
DKK 2.5 and 15 millions - projects and
DKK . 15 - 75 millions - platforms.

Deadline: January 27, 2009
Details

Funding from Tips/Lotto -

There is the possibility to get support for projects within scientific outreach. The support is not restricted to a speciffic area but does not allow money for projects that fall within the ordinary programs.
Deadline: December 1st, 2008
Read more

European Science foundation (ESF) call for proposals :

Conferences to be held in 2009 and 2010

The European Science Foundation invites individual scientists to submit proposals for high-level research conferences to take place in 2009 and 2010 within the framework of its Research Conferences Scheme . The ESF will fund Research Conferences in the following scientific domains:

In 2009: Mathematics
In 2010: Biology+, Energy and Environment, Mathematics, Physics/Biophysics and Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.

Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2008, midnight CET
Read more

Funding Programs

Information about ' Forprojektstøtte', Eurostars, EraSME and International innovation consortia. Download PDF .
March 4, 2008

Agreement between Israel and Denmark: Joint projects between Denmark and Israel are encouraged, e.g., as Eurostars project or FP7 proposal. After a delegation of 5 Danish companies and organisations met with 20 industry representatives in Israel the matchmaking will proceed with 3-4 more meetings in the future.
Read more
February,21, 2008

FP7 new calls are out within the fields of Cooperation (Energy, Environment, Food, Nano and IT), PEOPLE (mobility and career), IDEAS(basic reserach), and CAPACITIES (enhance research and innovation capacities).
On the Danish site of FI you will find information to the calls and contact persons for each call in Denmark.
All calls and information on FP 7 can be found under CORDIS

SDU has a person in charge in case you have questions in FP7 or an how to write an application: Arne Bækdal Hansen, Tel. 1085

Under Cooperation you will find the call for Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials & new production technologies (NMP). Emphasis is given to the following subjects:

• Nanosciences and nanotechnologies - studying phenomena and manipulation of matter at the nanoscale and developing nanotechnologies leading to the manufacturing of new products and services.
• Materials - using the knowledge of nanotechnologies and biotechnologies for new products and processes.

Deadline is April 24, 2008

December, 19, 2007

HTF, the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation has announced a new call for letters of interest for Hightechnology Projects and Hightechnology Platforms

Projects
An advanced technology project is a partnership between one or more private companies and
one or more public sector research institutions. At the end of the funding period there should be a new product.

Platforms:
An advanced technology platform is a partnership between one or more private companies and
one or more public sector research institutions. The aim is to develop new groundbreaking technology to open up new commercial aktivities within different fields for all partners.

Deadline: February 4, 2008, 12:00 o'clock
Details: http://www.hoejteknologifonden.dk
November 2007

Grundforskningsfond: The main strategy of the Foundation is to establish and fund Centres of Excellence. Call for letters of interest for new centers of Excellence
Deadline: November 30, 2007, 4 p.m.
August 2007

February 2007: 1st ERC Call for Proposals - EU's 7. frameworkprogram

ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grants (ERC Starting Grants). The call addresses young researchers that want to get established in Europe. Applicants should have a post doc for more than two years. Read more >>

February 8, 2007: NordForsk to support Nordic research with 100 million NOK  

If you have cooperation partners in one or many of the following countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) or autonomous areas (the Faroe Islands, Greenland and the Aland Islands) this might be an opportunity for you. Many NordForsk activities are open to all countries in the Nordic region, which in addition to the Nordic countries includes the adjacent areas Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and North-Western Russia.

NordForsk will hand out more than 100 million NOK (more than 12 million Euro) in Nordic research grants over the next three years. All academic fields are eligible for funding of activities such as networks, researcher training courses, course scholarships, PhD supervisor courses and seed money. Read more . (Some of the deadlines are as early as 1st of March.)

FP7: Get the latest informations about the 7th framework programe >>
For help regarding European projects and networks, people from SDU can contact Arne Bækdal Hansen : arbh@adm.sdu.dk

In Denmark you can get further help from this office: EuroCenter (Ministeriet for Videnskab Teknologi og Udvikling)

July 2005: 'Nanotechnology-a key Technology for the Future of Europe'
This is a report provided by the EU. It lists some state of the art investigations as well as opinions in which direction we should move with research addressing important global needs. This might be important to have in mind when applying for FP7.

Guidelines to enhance your chances for EU applications:
EU-millioner til nano-projekter - møde om mulighederne,
Niels Freeses raport about an informational meeting from Juni 23rd at the Teknologisk Institut
Read the article here>>

2005, January 10th, PDF of talk from Dirk Beernært, Opportunities from Small and Smart Technologies (European strategy for integrated Micro and Nanosystems)

Nanotechnology financed by the EU