Carlsberg Foundation opens for submission of applications for urgent research projects

From time to time, sudden social events and unforeseen natural events require urgent action in the form of an ultra-rapid research effort. This can be the case, for example, with environmental disasters, critical political instability or the emergence of new illnesses.

On this basis, the Carlsberg Foundation is now inviting applications within a new funding instrument, ‘Urgent Research Projects’, which will be open all year round. The instrument is aimed exclusively at research activities that require urgent funding and cannot await the foundation’s next ordinary call for applications.

“The world around us can change with great speed,” says Professor Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, CEO, Carlsberg Foundation. “That’s why the Carlsberg Foundation is now enabling the submission of applications for urgent funding for research activities that, due to external circumstances, need to be initiated quickly. With the ‘Urgent Research Projects’ instrument, we want to ensure a more agile and smooth application process where such circumstances arise.”

Submission of urgent application requires prior approval

In order for an urgent application to be eligible for submission, it requires prior approval from the Carlsberg Foundation’s secretariat. This approval requires submission of a short declaration of interest supported by the extraordinary external and unforeseen events warranting the need for submission of an urgent application.

In order to obtain funding on the basis of an urgent application within the ‘Urgent Research Projects’ instrument, it must be reasonable to assert that the application’s proposed research activities were impossible to foresee at the time of the application deadline for the Carlsberg Foundation’s previous ordinary call. It must also be shown that the proposed studies and research ideas presented in the urgent application cannot await the next ordinary call.

Urgent applications may only be submitted for project proposals that fall within the Carlsberg Foundation’s usual funding areas, and the projects must benefit Danish research generally.