Innovation Fund Denmark

Provides 0.7 - 4M € in subsidies for research and development within:

About Innovation Fund Denmark

In 2018, Innovation Fund Denmark will invest more than €75M in innovative initiatives to create growth and employment in Denmark.

Possibilities with Innovation Fund Denmark

Innovationsfonden operated within the following 6 research areas:

  • Bioresources, Food and Lifestyle
  • Trade, Service and Society
  • Energy, Climate and Environment
  • Production, Materials, Digitisation and ICT
  • Infrastructure, Transport and Construction
  • Biotech, Medico and Health

Grand Solutions

Innovation Fund Denmark offers co-financing for projects focussing is on research, technology, experimental development and/or market development. The fund has the following requirements for the projects:

  • 2-5 years duration
  • Maximum co-financing of up to 65% (up to 75% for SMEs). Upon successful application, projects receive DKK 5-30M in co-funding
  • Participation from a minimum of one Danish company and one Danish public research institution
  • The funding from the Innovation Fund Denmark can account for a maximum of 75% of the total project costs

Industrial PhD

An Industrial PhD is an industrially focused research project which is conducted jointly by a private sector company, an Industrial PhD student and a university. The Industrial PhD student is employed by a company in Denmark and at the same time enrolled at a university. The programme offers the following financing opportunities: 

For the company

Innovation Fund Denmark will finance up to DKK 17,000 per month of the Industrial PhD student’s salary for three years, but no more than 50 pct. of the gross salary (gross salary equals salary plus pension contributions). The company will have DKK 100,000 at disposal for the Industrial PhD candidate’s travels and courses.

For the university

Innovation Fund Denmark provides a fixed amount to the university to cover expenses for supervision, work facilities etc. The amount for Danish and non-Danish universities for the three-year period is, incl. overhead: DKK 360,000 for projects within the technical, fundamental, agricultural, veterinary and health sciences, and DKK 252,000 for projects within humanities and social sciences

InnoBooster

The InnoBooster programme invests in promising ideas from SMEs, start-ups and scientists. The goal is to transform good ideas to value for society in terms of growth and jobs. Upon successful application, projects get funding of up to DKK 5M. InnoBooster covers 33% of project expenses. 

Read more about InnoBooster. 

Upcoming deadlines

Below are the upcoming deadlines for Innovation Fund Denmark. Expect 1-2 months for the proposal writing process.

14
aug
2018

Through the Open Call, Innovation Fund Denmark wishes to strengthen knowledge-based projects, which lead to increased growth and employment in Denmark and/or solves important societal challenges. The purpose of Open Call investments is to strengthen unusual and value-creating research and innovation projects that go across disciplines and/or beyond the thematic Grand Solutions calls. 

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14
aug
2018

Projects under this call must create value for Denmark through new innovative solutions to the challenges facing society. The Innovation Fund wishes to support social, environmental and economic value creation in society and enable national and global growth. At the same time, the Fund wishes to contribute to the development of a coherent and well-functioning society.

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14
aug
2018

The Danish society is constantly changing, with new needs, new challenges and new technological opportunities. "New Technological Opportunities" covers research and new value-creating solutions to specific issues where new or known technologies are used in a new and value-creating way that opens up to unprecedented social and market opportunities. New Technological Opportunities can be within (but not exclusively): Production Technology and Systems, ICT, Digitization and Big Data, cyber and information security, drone technology, bio and life science, materials and energy.

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04
sep
2018

The overall purpose of this call is to bring personalised medicine (PM) to the patient/citizen. The main focus should be on the use of data already available within the health care system, such as existing omics, imaging, clinical and other healthcare data, rather than on generating new basic data. 

The call is a collaboration between the Nordic countries (Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland) and projects must consist of participants from at least three countries, at least two of which must be from the mentioned countries. 

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25
sep
2018

An Industrial PhD is a three-year industrially focused research project and PhD education which is carried out in a collaboration between a company, an Industrial PhD candidate and a university.

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Our services cover the entire application process:

Identifying funding opportunities
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Planning and scoping your project
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