The Carlsberg Foundation inaugurates 22 researcher apartments in Carlsberg District

With these new researcher apartments in Carlsberg District, the Carlsberg Foundation continues its tradition of hosting leading researchers from home and abroad. The apartments will be located close to the former Honorary Residence, which in the past accommodated internationally acclaimed researchers, including the physicist Niels Bohr from 1932 until his death in 1962.

It is exactly five years ago, on the 200th birthday of the Carlsberg Foundation's founder brewer J.C. Jacobsen, that the Carlsberg Foundation’s Board of Directors adopted the building project. The brewer regarded science as crucial for both beer production and society as a whole.

"The new researcher apartments correspond with both brewer J. C. Jacobsen's ambitions and the Carlsberg Foundation's primary purpose of supporting visionary and innovative basic research within natural sciences, humanities and social sciences. We have already experienced great interest for the apartments and we believe that with these apartments we meet an actual need of researchers visiting Denmark. In the Carlsberg Foundation we are excited to be able to make Denmark a more attractive country for international researchers who want to enrich Danish research environments with their scientific activities," says Flemming Besenbacher, Chairman of the Carlsberg Foundation.

The 22 new researcher apartments are located in Carlsberg District’s south-east corner next to the Hanging Gardens and the mineral water factory. They will border the garden belonging to the former Old Carlsberg’s main building, which subsequently became the Honorary Residence and is now the Carlsberg Academy. The researcher apartments will also be close to the new Carlsberg metro station and Campus Carlsberg, which is to be the new home of University College UCC.