Monograph Fellowships

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One-year full-time fellowships for leading, visionary researchers within the humanities or social sciences, or within interdisciplinary fields that may branch into the natural sciences, with a project aimed at publishing a ground-breaking monograph.

Deadline

01.10.2025 - 16:00

Frequency

Yearly

Opens

30.06.2025

Amount

Salary and operating expenses

For applicants

Purpose

The monograph fellowships are one-year full-time fellowships for leading, visionary researchers within the humanities or social sciences, or within interdisciplinary fields that may branch into the natural sciences, undertaking a project aimed at producing a ground-breaking monograph.

Who?

Monograph fellowships are only awarded to tenured senior researchers employed at a Danish research institution with 5-20 years of past tenure as an associate professor, senior researcher or professor.

The exact date on which the applicant took up their first tenured position, irrespective of the country, must be clearly stated in the CV. The Carlsberg Foundation reserves the right to request additional documentation.

Any periods of leave will be accepted as extensions of this time limit (parental leave, family care leave, illness, military service, etc.).

It is not possible to receive a monograph fellowship twice. 

What?

The Carlsberg Foundation covers the fellow’s full salary plus operating expenses of DKK 8,000 per month.

Operating expenses are at the grant holder’s disposal to cover conferences, study trips, etc., and cannot be used to cover overhead costs and administration fees.

Monograph fellows cannot at the same time carry out teaching or administrative duties. Ongoing light administration and limited supervision of PhD students or master’s students that monograph fellows themselves wish to continue is, however, acceptable.

CALL CLOSED Call opens: 30 June 2025 Deadline: 1 October 2025, 16:00
The updated guidelines will be available when the call opens

Requirements

Application requirements

The application must be submitted through the CF-Grant application system

Please note that failure to comply with the following requirements will result in an administrative rejection of the application. Please ensure that the correct type of grant is chosen in CF-Grant. Applying for the wrong type of grant will also result in an administrative rejection.

The application must be written in English.

The following appendices, and only these, must be uploaded with the application in PDF format (please note that other formats are not accepted):

  • Project description, including publication plan
  • Budget
  • Curriculum vitae
  • List of publications of the applicant

If relevant to the application (see explanation below): 

  • Publishing contract

Project description

The project description must be written using Times New Roman, font size 12, margins on the left, right, top and bottom of at least 2 cm and line spacing of 1.5.

The project description must include a publication plan.

The project description must not exceed two A4 pages (including figures, tables, etc., but excluding references). Any references or bibliography must be added in direct continuation of the project description.

Budget

The budget must be uploaded using the Carlsberg Foundation's budget template.

The budget must include the salary of the applicant. Funding for running costs (DKK 8,000 per month) is added automatically in the budget template. 

A project supplement is not included in this type of grant. 

Curriculum Vitae

The CV of the applicant must not exceed two A4 pages. Please do not include photo, home address, family information, CPR no., date of birth or gender.

The exact date on which the applicant took up their first tenured position, irrespective of the country, must be stated in the CV.

List of publications of the applicant

The list of publications must first contain a brief summary of the bibliometry of the applicant, including links to relevant bibliometric profiles (Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, etc.). 

Next the applicant must include a list of the ten peer-reviewed publications most relevant to the application and representative of their research career, with a few sentences explaining the relevance of each publication. All authors must be listed. 

If this is not possible due to space limitations, it will be sufficient to list the first ten authors and the corresponding author(s).

The list of publications must not exceed two A4 pages in total. 

If relevant: Publishing contract

If a publishing contract is already in place, this may be attached to the application. Having a publishing contract prior to the application deadline is not a requirement for applying for the monograph fellowship.

Popularised scientific description

Applicants are also required to submit a popularised scientific description in the CF-Grant application system (up to 400 characters). This description will be published on the foundation’s website should the application be successful.

Assessment & process

Assessment criteria Monograph Fellowships

Processing procedures

Budget

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FAQ

Please note: The foundation reserves the right to make adjustments to the guidelines.

The Carlsberg Foundation cannot offer individual guidance on projects or elements of projects before the application deadline.

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