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Steno Collaborative Grants

Call opens
1 April 2026
Call closes
2 June 2026 2:00pm (Copenhagen time)
Announcement of results
Mid September 2026
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About the grants

Amount
Up to DKK 10 million per grant
Location
Denmark
Career stage
Clinician / Nurse, Postdoctoral fellowships, Research Leaders (Established/Prof.), Research Leaders (junior/non-tenured), Research Leaders (Mid-career/Associate Prof.)
Research area focus
Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine, Clinical and Translational Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Contact

For grant inquiries
Ursula Bach
Senior Grant Manager, Grant Management
[email protected]

Purpose

With this call, the Novo Nordisk Foundation wishes to strengthen the collaboration between the Steno Diabetes Centers and the research environments related to the Centers. The foundation will support research projects with a unifying and collaborative mission to develop knowledge, to exchange experience across the research institutions and to facilitate synergy between the research environments around the Steno Diabetes Centers.

Aim

Steno Collaborative Project Grants aim to:

• Strengthen clinical, patient-centered and collaborative research between the Steno Diabetes Centers and the research environments outside the Centers.

• Position Denmark at an international level in improving prevention and care for persons with diabetes or at risk of diabetes.

Eligibility

The Main Applicant must be from a Steno Diabetes Center or a Steno Partner Institution (hospitals with a cooperative agreement with a Steno Diabetes Center).  

Due to the collaborative purpose, the project proposal must comprise a Main Applicant and 2-5 co-applicants. 

Co-applicants from steno centers, hospitals, universites, municipalies or other non-profit research or diabetes care institution in Denmark or abroad are eligible.  

International collaboration is encouraged. 

Funding

A total of up to DKK 30 million is available for grants between DKK 1 million and DKK 10 million for projects lasting from one to five years.

Application process

The application must be completed and submitted using NNF’s online application and grant management system, NORMA, which can be accessed from: https://norma.novonordiskfonden.dk

When all applications have been assessed, applicants will be notified about whether or not they have been awarded a grant. The notification e-mail will be sent from [email protected] to the e-mail address entered on initial registration.

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