457 ideas realized with support from Independent Research Fund Denmark

Research is crucial to solving society's challenges, and Independent Research Fund Denmark has invested DKK 1.4 billion in supporting the entire research ecosystem, from which the important breakthroughs of the future will come - in 2022 through 457 bottom-up driven, new research ideas.

Read the 2022 Annual Report here

In 2022, researchers sent 3,100 applications to Independent Research Fund Denmark and applied for a total of DKK 10.7 billion. This has resulted in an overall success rate of 13% measured in terms of amount, i.e. the share that the granted amount in total constitutes of the total application sum.

Dive into success rates, new clinical research projects, reports from the fund's research conference on breakthroughs in research and much more in the annual report 2022. 

Research ideas that make a difference

One of the major tasks for the fund in 2022 was to distribute funds for the two politically determined themes: "Green research" and "Strengthened clinical and independent research". The funds for the two themes were distributed through open and broadly worded notices, which provided a good framework for getting the best researchers to contribute their own original ideas. The result was a multitude of good applications and a total of 95 excellent research projects that received funding. Projects that will make a concrete difference for many Danish patients and for the green transition as a whole.

In connection with the agreements on the research reserve 2023, the fund has once again been given responsibility for distributing funds for ground-breaking research ideas within several politically determined and themed research areas, namely for green research, clinical research and research in children and youth and psychiatry.

Read the 2022 Annual Report here

May 30, 2023