Carlsberg Foundation awards science communication grants worth DKK 18 million

Among other things, you can look forward to hearing the podcasts ’Den ekstreme maskulinitet’ and ’Viden fra verdens ende’, attending the festival ’Fornuft & følelse’, following the series ’Den internationale retsorden’ and watching the documentary film ’Mikrobernes Rige’.

All these will be freely and easily accessible to all Danes with an interest in science.

“It’s fantastic to see the richness of ideas expressed in the many different proposals for communication projects that the Carlsberg Foundation is now able to recognise with a grant,” says Professor Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, CEO, Carlsberg Foundation. “I’m especially delighted to see that there are so many researchers from all parts of Denmark who want to work with professional communicators in order to share their knowledge with people other than their academic colleagues. It shows that there is good reason for funding science communication as an activity that supports society. And that we need to get better at recognising the importance of communication as the glue that binds the scientific world and civil society.”

Grants awarded in open competition

The grants for the 28 projects have been awarded in open competition based on the Science Communication and Carlsberg Mindelegat open calls for applications announced in November last year.

Through Science Communication, around DKK 16 million is being allocated to 17 major science communication initiatives organised and implemented by professional communicators in collaboration with scientists. Through Carlsberg Mindelegat, a further DKK 2 million is being allocated to 11 projects organised and implemented by researchers at Danish universities and research institutions who want to communicate their own research to a wide audience.

Open call for applications with deadline 1 September

Projects supported through Science Communication are eligible for a maximum of DKK 3 million, while for projects supported through Carlsberg Mindelegat the maximum is DKK 200,000.

In the current funding round, the Carlsberg Foundation received 124 applications to Science Communication and 42 applications to Carlsberg Mindelegat.

Both Science Communication and Carlsberg Mindelegat are open for applications twice a year, with deadlines of 1 September and 1 March respectively.

Currently, both funding schemes are open for applications, with a deadline of 1 September 2025.