International Research Stay | Social Sciences

Objective

This funding instrument is offered only by DFF | Social Sciences. In order to promote the internationalisation of social science research, DFF | Social Sciences provides funding for research stays at a research institution outside of Denmark for consecutive periods of at least 3 months. The research stay should be based on new and specific research activities within the field of social sciences and contribute to those activities through strengthened international collaboration or networks and collection of data.

About the applicant

The application must be submitted by the researcher who will complete the proposed research stay. You must have obtained a PhD degree or achieved equivalent qualifications through your research. You must be employed at a research institution in Denmark.

About the application

When writing an application to the fund, you must pay special attention to ensuring that the application fulfils the objective of the funding instrument and that it meets the fund’s assessment criteria. 

The council only provides funding for research stays lasting minimum 3 months to carry out research activities at a research institution outside of Denmark. The research stay should be uninterrupted unless exceptional family-related or institutional circumstances apply.

You may apply for funding if the purpose of your research stay is to enter into a binding and concrete research collaboration with foreign partners, or to gain access to archives, libraries, institutions, etc. The application must account for the significance of the research stay for the formation of collaborations and networks, as well as how these collaborations will contribute to the advancement of Danish research.

In its assessment of the application, the council will first and foremost place emphasis on the application presenting relevant internationalisation of well-founded research activities.

The stay, its contents, and output must be thoroughly described in the application. The project description must include an account of the academic grounds for a research stay at the institution in question as well as a description of the concrete and binding research collaboration, access to archives and libraries or data collection facilitated by the stay.

The application must be written in English.

Budget

You may apply for up to DKK 200,000 excl. overhead. The budget must be completed in the mandatory budget template, which can be downloaded from e-grant.

You cannot apply for funding for scientific/academic salaries, or non-research related expenses such as traveling and housing expenses for accompanying spouse and children, child care expenses, schooling expenses, etc.

Project description and appendices

There are a number of mandatory appendices that must always be attached, as well as an additional appendix that must be included if relevant.You can read more about the general requirements for the contents of the project description and appendices in section 8 in the call and the budget in section 9 in the call.

Please pay special attention to the fact that there are character and page limits for both the project description and the applicant's CV. Exceeding these limits will result in an administrative rejection. It is always the character count generated by e-grant that applies. You can find more information in section 8.2 in the call.