Purpose
Only applications submitted by a grant holder of a grant within the ‘NNF Research Infrastructure Programme – Large Equipment and Facilities’ will be considered for funding. All other applications will receive an administrative rejection by NNF.
With the Equipment Upgrade Programme, the NNF wishes to ensure that the Danish research, innovation and industry environments have continued access to timely research infrastructures by supporting the maintenance and upgrade of NNF funded research infrastructures.
The goal of the programme is to:
- Enable an upgrade and increased lifetime of the scientific equipment funded by the NNF Research Infrastructure – Large Equipment and Facilities Programme.
- Improve the impact and sustainability of NNF funded research infrastructures.
- Ensure that research communities have access to timely research infrastructure.
Areas of support
The infrastructure applied for should enable research and development within the Foundation’s strategic focus on biomedicine and health sciences, sustainability and biotechnology, and natural and technical sciences.
Specific overarching research fields include:
- Biomedicine
- Clinical and translational medicine
- Industrial and environmental biotechnology
- Plant science, agriculture and food biotechnology
- Natural sciences with potential applications in biomedicine or biotechnology
- Technical sciences with potential applications in biomedicine or biotechnology
- Computational science, including data science, with potential applications in health or sustainability.
Applications for the Equipment Upgrade Programme within natural, technical, or computational sciences must explicitly describe how the research enabled by the research infrastructure may have potential future applications in health or sustainability.
Eligibility
The applicant, who holds a PhD, must be a grant holder of a previously funded grant in the Research Infrastructure Programme– Large Equipment and Facilities Programme.
Funding
A total of approximately DKK 10 million is available for grants up to DKK 3 million for a period of up to 4 years.
Application process
The application must be completed and submitted using the foundation’s application system NORMA that can be accessed via the link “Apply now”.
Please read Information and Guidelines for Applicants carefully before initiating the application process. Additional essential information on the call and application process is found in these guidelines.
