Get the overview: How Innovation Fund Denmark will invest in 2024

Themes

• Green technology and Innovation
• Life science, health and welfare technology
• Digitalisation, technology and innovation

Application rounds

Innoexplorer has three application rounds in 2024

1. application round: Opens January 3 – application deadline: January 31
2. application round: Opens 27 March – application deadline: 24 April
3. application round: Opens 28 August - application deadline: 25 September
    

Webinars

Online question sessions are held prior to all three application rounds:

• 16 January at 13.00 – 13.45
• April 10 at 11.00 – 11.45
• 11 September at 11.00 – 11.45

Keep an eye out for "upcoming events" on the Innovation Fund Denmark website, where it will soon be possible to register.

See published apply options here

Themes

• Life science, health and welfare technology
• Green research technology and innovation
• Digitalisation, technology and innovation
   

Application round:

Innobooster has an ongoing round of applications.

Opening date in 2024 is 9 January. Applications close in mid-December 2024.

Webinars:

Innobooster currently has planned webinars for grant holders in Danish and English respectively on the opening day of the program on 9 January. You can register via the links below:

• 9 January at 8.30-9.30 - Innobooster Webinar for Grantees (DA)
• 9 January at 10.00-11.00 - Innobooster Webinar for Grant Holders (ENG)

Innobooster holds webinars continuously throughout the year - both for grant holders and future applicants

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Themes

• Life science, health and welfare technology
• Green technology and innovation
• Digitalisation, technology and innovation

Innofounder also has non-themed funds

Application rounds:

Innofounder has two application rounds in 2024

• Spring 2024: Opens February 1 - closes February 29
• Autumn 2024: Opens 13 August – closes 10 September

Webinars:

• 14 February at 10.00 – 11.00 - Innofounder Q&A session (Danish)
• 14 February at 12.30 – 1.30pm - Innofounder Q&A session (English)

Keep an eye out for "upcoming events" on the Innovation Fund Denmark website, where it will soon be possible to register.

See published apply options here

Themes

• Life science, health and welfare technology
• Green research technology and innovation
• Digitalisation, technology and innovation
• Free assets
• Greenland and the Faroe Islands (PhD only)

Application rounds:
Industrial Researcher has two application rounds in 2024.

1. Application round: Opens 22 February - application deadline 4 April
2. Application round: Opens 1 August - application deadline 12 September

Webinars:

Industrial Researcher has so far planned three webinars leading up to the spring application round.
You can register via the links below:

• Webinar 16 January 13.30 – 14.30 - Whats new on Industrial Researcher 2024
• Webinar 19 February 10-11 - Q&A on Industrial Researcher
• Webinar 20 March 14-15 - Q&A on Industrial Researcher

It will also be possible to participate in webinars in connection with the application round in the autumn. Keep an eye out for "upcoming events" on the Innovation Foundation's website.

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In 2024, the Grand Solutions program will continue to invest within the politically designated themes:

• Green technology and Innovation
• Life science, health and welfare technology, including stem cell projects
• Digitalisation, technology and innovation

Calls will be based on the political agreements on the research reserve: final-agreement-om-forskningreserve-for-2024.pdf (ufm.dk) .

Timing:

The innovation fund's board has decided that the assessment of Grand Solutions applications will switch to a new committee model. At the same time, this means that there will be significant changes in the programme. The model is under development and is expected to be approved by the foundation's board in the first quarter of 2024.

Publication of calls is expected to take place at the end of the first quarter of 2024.

Keep an eye on the Innovation Foundation's website and follow the foundation's LinkedIn profile and newsletter, where regular announcements will be made.

Quantum technology

With the agreement on the research reserve 2024, the politicians of the Folketing have earmarked DKK 100 million for a strategic research program within quantum technology, which is expected to be implemented under the Grand Solutions program with an expected announcement at the end of the first quarter of 2024.

The program will emphasize early, foundational research as well as international collaboration and support for knowledge-based innovation and commercialization of quantum research.

Innovation Fund Denmark invests in international collaboration to strengthen Danish research and innovation and promote Danish innovative solutions globally.

The ambitions for the Innovation Fund's international cooperation are based on the Fund's international strategy in combination with the Innovation Fund's multi-annual investment plan in the international area, the Multi Annual Investment Plan (MAP).

The foundation engages in four international cooperation platforms:

• The EU's Horizon programs (incl. Eurostars) with approx. 70-80 percent of MAP's budget.
• EUREKA, which has 47 member countries with approx. 10-15 percent of MAP's budget.
• Bilateral collaborations with India, China and the USA with approx. 5-10 percent of MAP's budget.
• Nordic collaboration through NordForsk and Nordic Energy Research with approx. 5 percent of MAP's budget.

Innovation Fund Denmark currently expects calls within the following programs in 2024:

We do not yet know the timing and content of all calls. Follow the website for more information on an ongoing basis:
 

The EU's Horizon programmes:

• ERA4Health "Modulation of brain aging trough nutrition and healthy lifestyle" (NutriBrain)
  - open from 3 November 2023 to 15 January 2024
• Personal Medicine "Identification or Validation of Targets for Personalized Medicine Approaches" (PMTargets) - open from 2 January 2024 to 5 March 2024
• Transforming Health & Care Systems (THCS)
• Eurostars 3, call 6 - open from 12 January 2024 to 14 March 2024 at 14
• Eurostars 3, call 7 - autumn 2024
• Agriculture of data, call is expected to open in the first quarter
• Animal health and Welfare
• FutureFoodS
• Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership (SBEP)
• Accelerating farming systems transition –agroecology living labs and research infrastructures "Fostering agroecology at farm and landscape levels", call expected to open in the first quarter
• Biodiversa+, “Societal Transformation” call is expected to open in September 2024 with a deadline of November 2024.
• Water4All “Water and circular economy”, call is planned to open in September
• Chips JU
• M-ERA.NET 3
• CETP Clean Energy Transition
• DUT Driving Urban Transition

EUREKA

• Eurogia 2030 - open from January 2024 to March 2024
• ITEA 4

Work is underway to develop a call on applied quantum technology under the auspices of EUREKA and bilateral calls with India and the USA in the energy field.

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According to the agreement, the funds must support that the technology's potential is utilized in the best possible way and benefit citizens, businesses and Danish society.

The funds are to give research and innovation efforts in the field in Denmark a boost, including the early, ground-breaking research – e.g. m.p.h. to be able to influence the development of artificial intelligence.

The effort must also shed light on ethical issues, which can contribute to reducing risks and threats in relation to artificial intelligence.

At the same time, the effort must contribute to Denmark, in an intensified international competition for technology development, including responsible artificial intelligence, being able to retain and attract talent.

The funds will be disbursed via the foundation's existing programmes. Innovation Fund Denmark expects to be able to publish more information about the specific outcome at the end of the first quarter of 2024.

1) Capture and storage or use of CO₂ (CCUS)

2) Green fuels for transport and industry (Power-to-X etc.)

3) Climate and environmentally friendly agriculture and food production

4) Circular economy with a focus on plastics and textiles