Programmes

Innovation Fund Denmark accelerates Danish research and innovation for solutions to strengthen the competitiveness and sustainability of Danish society. The fund provides funding through seven programmes that have different purposes and are aimed at different applicant groups.  

  • For startups and maturing research ideas, entrepreneurship and business startups: Innofounder and Innoboster  
     

  • For an innovation boost of established companies - with a special focus on SMEs: Innobooster  
     

  • Partnerships between researchers and companies/regions/hospitals/municipalities etc.: Grand Solutions, International Collaborations, Industrial Researcher and Innomissions  

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Innomissions

Mission-driven green research and innovation partnerships that must contribute significantly to the green transformation of society and the development of sustainable climate technologies for the benefit of Denmark and the rest of the world.
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Grand Solutions

Research collaborations with knowledge institutions and companies - based on specific societal challenges
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International collaborations

You are seeking research collaborators on an international level that create innovative solutions
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Missionbooster

Special program focusing on supporting the contribution of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to future solutions to the green challenges
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Innobooster

Are you a startup or SME in need of new knowledge to realize your business potential?
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Innoexplorer

Have you created a research result with commercial or societal potential?
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Industrial Researcher

For you who have an idea for a project like Industrial PhD or Industrial Postdoc that creates commercial value.
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Innofounder

Do you have a great business idea and come from a higher education institution
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Options for applying

Current listings and application deadlines 

Joint transnational call 2025: New treatments to tackle AMR International collaborations /en/node/2485 2075
Preannouncement: Rare Diseases (ERDERA) Call 2026 International collaborations /en/node/2486 2075
AgroEcology 3rd call: Fostering plant and animal genetic diversity and empowering farmers to accelerate the agroecological transition International collaborations /en/node/2487 2075
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