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20. December 2022

New Pioneer Center will revolutionize materials for green transition

Today, a press briefing at DTU (Technical University of Denmark) marks the opening of our third Pioneer Center, CAPeX, the Pioneer Center for Accelerating P2X Materials…

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12. December 2022

How to pave the way for a scientific breakthrough

The Center of Excellence NanoPhoton recently published momentous news about the development of a nanostructure that compresses light in a way that many physicists thought…

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15. November 2022

The DNRF Photo Competition 2023

THE COMPETITION IS CLOSED Again, this year, The Danish National Research Foundation is inviting the Danish scientific community to submit their best photos to the…

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30. September 2022

First network retreat for younger research talents

“I hope this will be around every year,” said Elena Papaleo on her way out from hotel Comwell in Snekkersten. Elena is in the middle…

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16. September 2022

The University of Southern Denmark receives the 10th DNRF Chair grant focusing on social mobility

Are Scandinavian countries really better at breaking the cycle of social inheritance? And how much can society change its level of social mobility? These are…

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11. August 2022

Are the scientists ready for FAIR data?

This year’s annual publication from the DNRF offers a peek into researchers’ views and experiences regarding digitization and FAIR data use. In other words, it…

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8. June 2022

The Queen of Denmark visits the Center for Proteins in Memory (PROMEMO)

Last week, Queen Margrethe II visited our DNRF research center PROMEMO to learn more about the center’s research in molecular neurobiology. The Queen of Denmark…

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7. June 2022

The DNRF invests 625 mil. DKK in 11 new Centers of Excellence

The board of the Danish National Research Foundation has decided to support the establishment of 11 new DNRF Centers of Excellence. The Centers of Excellence…

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3. June 2022

New pioneer center will pave the way for the green transition in agriculture

Denmark’s second pioneer center, the Pioneer Center for Landscape Research in Sustainable Agricultural Futures (Land-CRAFT), aims to gain knowledge about the possibilities of reducing greenhouse…

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7. April 2022

Read the DNRF’s Annual Report 2021

The Danish National Research Foundation’s Annual Report 2021 has now been published and can be found below. In the report, you can read about: the…

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2. April 2022

The picture of a contaminated cross-section sample wins 3rd prize in the DNRF’s Photo Competition 2022

The winner of the third prize in the DNRF’s Photo Competition 2022 is the picture of a cross-section of a sample with different super-lattice structures…

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1. April 2022

The picture of human pain-sensing nerve cells wins 2nd prize in the DNRF’s Photo Competition 2022

The winner of the second prize in the DNRF’s Photo Competition 2022 is a picture of human pain-sensing nerve cells. The image was taken during…

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30. March 2022

The Danish Pioneer Center for AI marks its official opening

Denmark’s new Pioneer Center for Artificial Intelligence marked its official opening with an event that focuses on how fundamental AI research can contribute to solving…

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21. March 2022

New DNRF Chair grant for The Niels Bohr Institute will focus on the dark content of our universe

The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen has received a DNRF Chair, the Danish National Research Foundation’s latest funding instrument. The grant will support the…

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28. February 2022

New DNRF Chair grant for KU will focus on health

The University of Copenhagen has received another DNRF Chair, the Danish National Research Foundation’s latest funding instrument. The grant will support the research of Professor…

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