The Novo Nordisk Foundation has extended the scope of the Distinguished Innovator Grants and the Pioneer Innovator Grants from solely focusing on health to cover research in sustainability. For both areas, the grants aim to accelerate the commercialisation of research findings and the development of novel technologies within sustainability and health.
The intent is to support innovative research within agriculture and food, industrial and environmental biotechnology and quantum technologies and to stimulate the investigation of ideas that may lead to the development of new products or systems, devices and technological platforms related to this.
Particular focus will be placed on projects covering sustainable and high-yield agriculture, sustainable food and healthy diets and climate change mitigation technologies to support the green transition.
”We are pleased to expand our Pioneer and Distinguished Innovator Grants to cover both sustainability and health in alignment with the new Novo Nordisk Foundation strategy, and we look forward to receiving innovative applications in both areas,” says Mikkel Skovborg, Senior Vice President, Innovation, Novo Nordisk Foundation.
The Distinguished Innovator Grants aim to stimulate the investigation of ideas and to support experiments and activities leading to proof of concept or beyond. The grants seek to facilitate the role of the main applicant as an ambassador for innovation within academia: that is, to drive cultural change and act as a role model for translating basic research into innovation.
The Pioneer Innovator Grants seek to support novel academic and science-based discoveries with commercial potential. The aim is to stimulate the investigation of ideas and to support experiments and activities leading to proof of concept or beyond.
ABOUT DISTINGUISHED INNOVATOR
- Scientific areas:
Sustainability: sustainable agriculture, food, industrial and environmental biotechnology as well as carbon capture, utilisation and storage technologies, nitrous oxide and methane emissions and quantum technologies
Health: medical technology, industrial biotechnology or pharma - Grant sum and duration: up to DKK 6 million per grant for 3 years
- Eligibility: senior faculty member or senior researcher with proven track record in innovation
- Geography: Nordics (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Finland)
- Application deadline: 9 March
Read more: Distinguished Innovator Grant – Novo Nordisk Foundation
ABOUT PIONEER INNOVATOR
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- Scientific areas:
Sustainability: sustainable agriculture, food, industrial and environmental biotechnology as well as carbon capture, utilisation and storage technologies, nitrous oxide and methane emissions and quantum technologies
Health: medical technology, industrial biotechnology or pharma - Grant sum and duration: up to DKK 1 million per grant for 1 year
- Eligibility: faculty member, researcher or student employed at a Nordic knowledge institution
- Geography: Nordics (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Finland)
- Application deadline: 9 March
Read more: Pioneer Innovator Grant – Novo Nordisk Foundation
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