Purpose
NB: Guidelines available from 12 December 2025 (call opening date).
The purpose of the RECRUIT Sabbatical grants is to support internationalisation by enabling transient embedment of university faculty in a foreign environment. The grants support university faculty in time-unlimited positions. All candidates for the RECRUIT programme are nominated by Danish universities. A nomination quota for RECRUIT is allocated to each Danish university.
The candidate’s research focus must lie within natural and technical science research and interdisciplinarity, and biotechnology and sustainability.
Grant types
The RECRUIT programme contains several open competition grant types:
- RECRUIT Sabbatical grants: Up to DKK 1 million over up to 1 year. This grant is both available for researchers in Denmark going abroad and international researchers coming to Denmark
- RECRUIT grants: Up to DKK 22 – 55 million over up to 7 years (the RECRUIT call can be found separately on NNF’s website)
- RECRUIT Extension grants: Up to DKK 10 million over up to 5 years (the call and guidelines for RECRUIT Extension grants will be made available in due time)
Application process
The application process consists of two phases, where the first phase is undertaken prior to submission deadline by the universities and the second phase by the Foundation after submission deadline.
The Danish university conducts an evaluation of relevant candidates selects which candidates to nominate. This process is organised by the university. A nomination list must be submitted to the Foundation by the university before the application deadline. The university cannot prioritise among the nominated candidates. Only candidates nominated by the university will be considered for funding.
Nominated candidates should prepare and submit an application using the Foundation’s application and grant management system, NORMA.
For more detailed information, please read the Guidelines carefully (available from 12 December 2025).
