Internal processes at the School of Communication and Culture
Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF)
AUFF grants and deadlines for autumn 2025
| GRANT | MAX. AMOUNT (Excl. overhead) | WHO CAN APPLY | DEADLINES |
AUFF NOVA |
| AUFF NOVA is available for all researchers with a permanent position at AU. Tenure track assistant professors are considered permanent staff in this regard | 10 September 2025 at 12:00 |
| AUFF International Mobility (Visiting Researcher Stipends; Sabbatical Stipends) | 15,000 DKK per month (excl. overhead) for up to 3 months / up to 200,000 DKK | Permanent researchers (associate professors / senior researchers or professors) at Aarhus University can apply for both instruments. Applications must include a letter of support from the Head of Department. Visiting researchers coming to AU must be at least assistant professors. | 17 September 2025 at 12:00 |
Read more about AUFF NOVA.
Read more about AUFF International Mobility.
The following deadlines apply for the internal processes:
| DEADLINE | TASK | CONTACT |
20 August 2025 | Deadline for notifying the research consultant
Please reach out to Arts Finance in order to get the required budget help. | Research consultant CC: |
| 1 September 2025 | Prequalification of a named PhD candidate The following appendices must be sent to the research consultant and the relevant PhD programme director:
If the candidate is approved, the main applicant will receive a confirmation document from the Graduate School. | Art, Literature and Cultural Studies, Stefan Iversen: norsi@cc.au.dk ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism, Kasper Hedegård Schiølin: kasper@cc.au.dk Language, Linguistics, Communication, and Cognition, Mikkel Wallentin: mikkel@cc.au.dk Team leader, Graduate School, Arts, Anna Louise Dolan Plaskett: plaskett@au.dk |
| 1 September 2025 | Budget approval | Research consultant CC: Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
10 September 2025 at 12:00/ | Application deadline | |
| As soon as possible after the deadline | Filing | Research consultant CC: Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
| 2026 | Creating your project | Research consultant CC: Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
Carlsberg foundation
Overview of grants
| GRANT | AMOUNT (max) | DEADLINE | WHO CAN APPLY |
| 200,000 - 3,000,000 DKK | 1 September 2025 at 16:00 | Independent communicators, public institutions, private companies, or non-profit organizations in Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. | |
| Carlsberg Mindelegat | 50,000 - 200,000 DKK | 1 September 2025 at 16:00 | Researchers with a current affiliation to a Danish research institution. The applicant must, as a minimum, have obtained a PhD degree. |
| Semper Ardens Accelerate | Max. 7,000,000 DKK | 1 October 2025 at 16:00 | The applicant must be a tenured associate professor, employed at a Danish research institution who has been appointed for a maximum of two years at the date of the application deadline. |
| Semper Ardens Accomplish | 10,000,000-13,000,000 DKK | 1 October 2025 at 16:00 | The applicant must be a recently tenured internationally recognised professor, employed at a Danish research institution who has been appointed for a maximum of four years at the date of the application deadline. |
| Semper Ardens Advance | Cannot be applied for in 2025 (next call is in 2026) | ||
| Monograph Fellowships | Full salary + operating expenses (8,000 DKK per month) | 1 October 2025 at 16:00 | Tenured senior researchers employed at a Danish research institution with 5-20 years of past tenure as an associate professor, senior researcher or professor. |
| Reintegration Fellowships | Full salary + operating expenses (8,000 DKK per month) | 1 October 2025 at 16:00 | Postdoctoral fellows who wish to undertake research activities in Denmark after a research stay abroad. As a general rule, only applicants who are abroad at the time of the application deadline are eligible to apply for this fellowship. |
| Research Infrastructure | No max. (minimum: 300,000 DKK) | 1 October 2025 at 16:00 | Tenured associate professor/senior researcher or professor employed at a Danish research institution. |
| Conferences | Max. 80,000 DKK | Running deadline (three months prior to date of event) | The applicant must be at least at postdoctoral level, employed at a Danish research institution. Applicants who previously have received a rejection from the Executive Management of the Foundation for this type of grant are only eligible to re-apply after a three-month period from receipt of the rejection letter. |
Field Trips/Research Stays (not exceeding 100,000 DKK) | 100,000 DKK | Running deadline (three months prior to date of event) | The applicant must be an associate professor, senior researcher or professor, employed at a Danish research institution. Applicants who previously have received a rejection from the Executive Management of the Foundation for this type of grant are only eligible to re-apply after a three-month period from receipt of the rejection letter. |
Field Trips/Research Stays (exceeding 100,000 DKK) | More than 100,000 DKK | 1 October 2025 at 16:00 | The applicant must be at associate professor/senior researcher or professor level, employed at a Danish research institution. |
| Publications | No max. | Running deadline (three months prior to date of event) | Grants for the publication of monographs based on research supported by the Carlsberg Foundation. The applicant must be at least at postdoctoral level and be a former or current Carlsberg Foundation grant holder employed at a Danish research institution. Applicants who previously have received a rejection from the Executive Management of the Foundation for this type of grant are only eligible to re-apply after a three-month period from receipt of the rejection letter. |
| Internationalisation Fellowships | The Carlsberg Foundation covers the fellow’s full salary and operating expenses of DKK 8,000 per month. For the project period abroad, the applicant may apply for an additional amount of DKK 50,000 per year when traveling with a partner, or an additional amount of DKK 100,000 per year when traveling with child(ren). | 1 October, 2025 at 16:00 | The applicant must hold a PhD degree or must have received the assessment of the PhD thesis. The applicant must also have a demonstrated strong connection to Danish research. NB: The grant must be administered by the Danish research institution, and the applicant will be employed at this institution for the entire project period of the fellowship. |
Internal process at the school
| DEADLINE | TASK | CONTACT |
20 August 2025 (for all grants!) | Notification: Notify the research consultant that you are planning to apply for a Carlsberg grant (and stating which one) hosted by the school. | Research consultant, IKK, Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk
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20 August 2025 | Budget: Please reach out to Arts Finance in order to get the required budget help. It is important to get a project finance controller involved to help you with your budget as soon as possible. | Coordinator and project finance controller Thor Fris Jespersgaard, thor.jespersgaard@au.dk |
20 August 2025 | Internal review: The school offers to read and give feedback on the following applications: Accelerate, Accomplish and Monograph. The research consultant will match the application with a suitable reader from the school’s Research Committee. Each review will however be planned individually (and in agreement with both the applicant and the reader). Are you interested in getting an internal review, please reach out to the research consultant and let her know right away. | Research consultant, IKK, Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
1 September 2025 | Projects involving named PhD students: When named PhD students are involved in major projects, the main applicant must gain the approval (prævurdering) of the relevant PhD Programme Director as quickly as possible, confirming that it will be possible to register the student concerned as a PhD student if the applicant receives funding. In order to gain this approval, the following documents must be sent to the relevant PhD Programme Director along with team leader of the Graduate School, Arts:
If the candidate is approved, the main applicant will receive a confirmation document from Graduate School, Arts. | Art, Literature and Cultural Studies, Stefan Iversen: norsi@cc.au.dk ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism, Kasper Hedegård Schiølin: kasper@cc.au.dk Language, Linguistics, Communication, and Cognition, Mikkel Wallentin: mikkel@cc.au.dk Team leader, Graduate School, Arts, Anna Louise Dolan Plaskett: plaskett@au.dk |
22 September 2025 | Housing commitment/declarations of support (Reintegration Fellowships, Accelerate & Accomplish): Please send the final title of the project, a brief summary of the project along with a few notes on how the project fits with existing research environments at the school to the research consultant in order to receive the mandatory “Declaration of support from the host institution” in due time. Declaration from the Danish administering host institution (Internationalisation). | Research consultant, IKK, Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
25 August 2025 / 22 September 2025 | Budget approval: Calls with a deadline on 1 September: Budgets must be approved by the head of school before the applications are submitted. Please forward the final version to the research consultant no later than 25 August. Calls with a deadline on 1 October: Budgets must be approved by the head of school before the applications are submitted. Please forward the final version to the research consultant no later than 22 September. Calls with a running deadline: Budgets must be approved by the head of school before the applications are submitted. Please forward the final version to the research consultant at least 5 weekdays before you plan to submit the proposal. | Research consultant, IKK, Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
1 October 2025 at 16:00 (for most grants) | Application deadline | |
1 October 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter) | Record-keeping | Research consultant, IKK, Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
2026 | Creating your project | Research consultant, IKK, Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF)
DFF grants and deadlines for the autumn 2025
| GRANT | MAX. AMOUNT (Excl. overhead) | DEADLINES |
Up to 550,000 DKK | 10 September 2025 at 12:00 | |
Up to 130,000 DKK. evenly over 3 years | 10 September 2025 at 12:00 | |
Up to 4,400,000 DKK | 7 October 2025 at 12:00 | |
Between 2,500,000 and 4,400,000 DKK | 7 Oktober 2025 at 12:00 | |
Up to 1,500,000 DKK | 6 November 2025 at 12:00 |
Read the full call.
The following deadlines apply to the internal processes:
Explorative Network FKK) and Journals (FKK)
| DEADLINE | TASK | CONTACT |
20 August 2025 | Deadline for notifying the research consultant
Please reach out to Arts Finance in order to get the required budget help. | Research consultant CC: |
1 September 2025 | Budget approval
| Research consultant CC: Line Gren, lgre@cc.au.dk |
10 September 2025 at 12:00 | Application deadline (both for Explorative Network and Journals) | PI |
10 September 2025 | Filing When the application has been uploaded via the research fund’s application portal, the application and appendices must be sent as a single PDF file to the research consultant for filing in Workzone. | Research consultant CC: Line Gren, lgre@cc.au.dk |
2026 | Creating your project | Research consultant CC: Line Gren, lgre@cc.au.dk |
Sapere Aude: DFF-Research Leader and DFF-Research project2
| DEADLINE | TASK | CONTACT |
20 August 2025 | Deadline for notifying the research consultant
Internal review (only for DFF-Research Project2) Please reach out to Arts Finance in order to get the required budget help. | Research consultant CC: |
1 September 2025 | Prequalification of a named PhD candidate The following appendices must be sent to the research consultant and the relevant PhD programme director:
If the candidate is approved, the main applicant will receive a confirmation document from the Graduate School. Regarding unnamed PhD candidates Note: The earliest start date for the project is 01.08.2026 - and unnamed PhD's will not be able to start the project before 01.02.2027. | Ph.d.-programledere: Art, Literature and Cultural Studies, Stefan Iversen: norsi@cc.au.dk ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism, Kasper Hedegård Schiølin: kasper@cc.au.dk Language, Linguistics, Communication, and Cognition, Mikkel Wallentin: mikkel@cc.au.dk Team leader, Graduate School, Arts, Anna Louise Dolan Plaskett: plaskett@au.dk |
1 October 2025 | Budget approval
| Research consultant CC: Line Gren, lgre@cc.au.dk |
7 October 2025 | Application deadline (both for Explorative Network and Journals) | PI |
7 October 2025 | Filing When the application has been uploaded via the research fund’s application portal, the application and appendices must be sent as a single PDF file to the research consultant for filing in Workzone. | Research consultant CC: Line Gren, lgre@cc.au.dk |
2026 | Creating your project When applicants reveice a reply from DFF (and also if review comments are received), the research consultant must be contacted as quickly as possible with a view to creating the project. | Research consultant CC: Line Gren, lgre@cc.au.dk |
DFF-International Postdoctoral Grant
| DEADLINE | TASK | CONTACT |
20 August 2025 | Deadline for notifying the research consultant
| Research consultant CC: |
27 October 2025 | Budget approval
| Research consultant CC: Line Gren, lgre@cc.au.dk |
6 November 2025 at 12:00 | Application deadline (both for Explorative Network and Journals) | PI |
6 November 2025 | Filing When the application has been uploaded via the research fund’s application portal, the application and appendices must be sent as a single PDF file to the research consultant for filing in Workzone. | Research consultant CC: Line Gren, lgre@cc.au.dk |
2026 | Creating your project When applicants reveice a reply from DFF (and also if review comments are received), the research consultant must be contacted as quickly as possible with a view to creating the project. | Research consultant CC: Line Gren, lgre@cc.au.dk |
VELUX Foundation: HUMpraxis
| DEADLINE | TASK | CONTACT |
| 16 June 2025 at 12:00 | Deadline for notifying the research consultant
| Research consultant, CC: Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk Academic coordinator, Arts Finance: Thor Fris Jespersgaard, thor.jespersgaard@au.dk |
| 4 August 2025 at 12:00 | Budget approval The final budget is sent for approval by the school. An approved budget is a prerequisite for submitting the application. | Research consultant, CC: Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
| 14 August 2025 at 14:00 | Application deadline Filing | Research consultant, CC: Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
Please also note:
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The project must identify a societal challenge related to social and/or environmental sustainability and/or transitions and changes in adult life, and must contribute with new developments and solutions in these areas.
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The research and practice components must be closely integrated in the overall project design and be interdependent. The collaboration between research and practice must be genuinely established by the time of submitting the expression of interest—not just intended.
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The project must include permanently employed university researchers at associate professor or professor level.
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You may apply for up to 5.9 million DKK, and the project duration can be between 3 and 5 years.
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Both the expression of interest and any full application must be written in Danish.
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Funding for permanently employed university researchers should be limited and must not exceed 10% of the total amount applied for. This can go up to 15% if researchers from university colleges or other institutions with research rights and obligations are involved. Any salary costs for these staff members count toward the 15%. There are no restrictions on how the 15% is distributed between university researchers and researchers from other eligible institutions.
You may apply for funding for:
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Buyout/salary for practice-based professionals, project staff, researchers, and project leadership.
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PhD or postdoc fellowships, and to a limited extent, salary for project leadership.
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PhD salaries follow the official state pay scale (steps 1–8, including applicable supplements). If a higher salary is desired, the institution must cover the additional cost.
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See also the agreement with Danish Universities regarding project supplements. More information here: Agreement with foundations on research project funding – Danish Universities (dkuni.dk)
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Please note: the HUMpraxis program triggers the “dry” project supplement.
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Practice-related activities and method development.
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Project-specific expenses related to operations, publications, meetings, conferences, etc.
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Dissemination of results and anchoring of methods and activities.
Read the full call (DK only).
Funds for art research
Novo Nordisk Foundation: Mads Øvlisen
Timeline and procedure: Mads Øvlisen PhD scholarships
- First and foremost, your project and qualifications must be pre-assessed by the PhD school (Graduate School, Arts) in order to determine whether you are qualified to undertake a PhD position. If you are deemed qualified, you will receive a letter of interest, and upon receiving a grant, you may be enrolled at the PhD school at Aarhus University.
- As a rule, you will both be enrolled and employed at CC, Aarhus University.
- You must obtain a hosting commitment from the institution where you are seeking employment. A prerequisite for receiving a hosting commitment from CC is that the research consultant at CC has approved the project’s budget (note: the budget template will be made available when the Novo Nordisk Foundation announces the 2026 call).
| DEADLINE | TASK | CONTACT |
| 10 November 2025 | Pre-assessment/Letter of interest: Send the following documents to the research consultant at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University:
The research consultant will contact administrative officer Helle Breth Klausen to assess the application and, if relevant, identify a potential supervisor/ensure academic affiliation. | Research consultant, CC: |
| 2 December 2025 | You will receive a response regarding the budget, pre-assessment, and hosting commitment. If the budget and pre-assessment are approved, and enrollment at the PhD school at AU is desired, the research consultant will issue a hosting commitment from AU in connection with a conditional offer of employment at CC. You will also receive a pre-qualification from the PhD school. | Research consultant, CC: Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
| Expected january 2026 | Application deadline for Mads Øvlisen PhD fellowships in Art History and Practice-Based Artistic Research. (Note: the link is currently for the call from 2025). | Contact regarding content: Clarissa Løkkegaard Engelholm, Project Manager Contact regarding application/NORMA: Julie Krener, Grant Manager |
Timeline and procedure: Mads Øvlisen postdoc fellowships
| DEADLINE | TASK | CONTACT |
| 17 November 2025 | Send the following documents to the research consultant at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University:
The research consultant, in collaboration with the relevant administrative officer, will assess and potentially approve the submitted material and its academic relevance to the department. | Research consultant, CC: Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
| 4 December 2025 | The latest date by which you will receive a response after submitting the documents, indicating whether the project is considered academically relevant for the relevant CC department. If the budget is approved, the research consultant will send back a signed hosting commitment, which can be attached to the application. | Research consultant, CC: Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
| Expected January 2026 | Application deadline for Mads Øvlisen postdoc fellowships 2026. (Note: the link is currently for the call from 2025). | Contact regarding content: Clarissa Løkkegaard Engelholm, Project Manager Contact rgarding application/NORMA: Julie Krener, Grant Manager |
Novo Nordisk Foundation: Investigator Grant and Project Grants
| DEADLINE | TASK | CONTACT |
| 17 November 2025 | If you are a non-permanent applicant, you must, no later than this date, send the following documents to the research consultant:
The research consultant, in collaboration with the responsible administrative officer, will then assess and potentially approve the academic relevance of the application for the department. If you are a permanent staff member at IKK, you must, no later than this date, send the following documents to the research consultant:
The research consultant, in collaboration with the responsible administrative officer, will then assess and potentially approve the budget. | Research consultant, CC: Academic coordinator, Arts Finance: |
| 4 December 2025 | Non-permanent staff: Latest date after submission of documents by which you will receive a response on whether the project and budget can be approved. Permanent staff at CC: Latest date after submission of documents by which you will receive a response on whether the budget can be approved. | Research consultant, CC: Helle Breth Klausen, hbk@cc.au.dk |
| Expected January 2026 | Read more about the Investigator Grant (Note: the link is currently for the call from 2025). Read more about the Project Grants (Note: the link is currently for the call from 2025). | Contact regarding content: Clarissa Løkkegaard Engelholm, Project Manager Contact rgarding application/NORMA: Julie Krener, Grant Manager |
New Carlsberg Foundation: PhD fellowships
Note: The processes will be updated with the correct dates in August.
The New Carlsberg Foundation awards PhD fellowships for projects addressing art-related research issues in the broadest sense, which are relevant to the activities of the applying museum, art center, or exhibition venue. This can involve more traditional art historical or theoretical research in connection with collections, but can also include other issues related to the institution’s role in society at large: strategy, curating, marketing, communication, and dissemination.
It is the museum/art center/exhibition venue that applies for – and if approved, receives – the funding from the New Carlsberg Foundation, and the applicant must include a hosting commitment from the university in the application. If the grant is awarded, a collaboration agreement will be established between the institution and the university, stating, among other things, that the PhD student will be enrolled in the university’s PhD school. As a rule, the place of employment is also Aarhus University.
Application procedure
- No later than August 23 2024, send: 1) a preliminary project description, 2) the name of a proposed main supervisor from the department, and 3) a draft budget (see standard budget template, DK only) to research consultant Helle Breth Klausen (hbk@cc.au.dk). The research consultant will forward the description to the relevant administrative officer for an assessment of the academic relevance and anchoring of the project.
- If the project has a named PhD candidate, the candidate must be pre-qualified by the PhD school. Therefore, you must also send the following to the research consultant: 1) the project description, 2) the candidate’s CV, 3) transcripts and degree certificates, and 4) documentation of English language proficiency equivalent to English B-level from a Danish high school.
- If the project has an unnamed PhD candidate to be employed at the university, please note that the PhD school operates with two fixed recruitment rounds annually. Read more here: https://phd.arts.au.dk/academic-staff/call-deadlines-for-grant-holders (see ‘Deadlines’). If the university has approved that an unnamed candidate will be employed by the museum, the museum itself is responsible for the job posting, and the PhD school will approve the applicants.
- Once the administrative officer has approved the academic relevance of the project for the school, and the PhD school has pre-approved the PhD candidate, the research consultant will prepare a hosting commitment on behalf of the School of Communication and Culture, which can be attached to the application.
After preliminary approval from the New Carlsberg Foundation
- If the museum/art center/exhibition venue receives a preliminary approval for a grant, please send the grant letter to research consultant Helle Breth Klausen (hbk@cc.au.dk) in order to initiate the next steps.
- Note that the above refers to the university’s internal process, whereas the New Carlsberg Foundation operates with a “model 1” and “model 2”, which will only be finally decided upon in connection with the preliminary approval.
Practical Information
- The application deadline is September 18 2024, 12:00.
- Applications must be submitted via the New Carlsberg Foundation’s online application system.
- Read more about the call here: https://www.ny-carlsbergfondet.dk/en/phd-fellowships
Questions?
For questions regarding the call, contact research consultant at the New Carlsberg Foundation, Tom Hermansen (th@ncf.dk). For other inquiries, contact research consultant at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Helle Breth Klausen (hbk@cc.au.dk).
New Carlsberg Foundation: Postdoc fellowships
Note: The processes will be updated with the correct dates in August.
The New Carlsberg Foundation awards postdoctoral fellowships for projects addressing art-related research questions in the broadest sense, which are relevant to the activities of the applying museum, art center, or exhibition venue. This may involve more traditional art historical or theoretical research in connection with collections, but can also encompass other issues related to the institution’s role in society at large: strategy, curating, marketing, communication, and dissemination.
It is the museum/art center/exhibition venue that applies for – and, if approved, receives – the funding from the New Carlsberg Foundation. The applicant must attach a hosting commitment from the university to the application. If the grant is awarded, a collaboration agreement will be established between the institution and the university. As a rule, Aarhus University will be the place of employment. For postdoctoral positions, there is a 20% teaching obligation at the School of Communication and Culture.
Application procedure
- No later than August 23 2024, send a preliminary project description and a draft budget (see standard budget template, DK only) to research consultant Helle Breth Klausen (hbk@cc.au.dk). The research consultant will forward the description to the relevant administrative officer for an assessment of the academic relevance and anchoring of the project.
- Once the administrative officer has approved the project's academic relevance for the school, the research consultant will prepare a hosting commitment on behalf of the School of Communication and Culture, which can be attached to the application.
After preliminary approval from the New Carlsberg Foundation
- If the museum/art center/exhibition venue receives preliminary approval from the New Carlsberg Foundation, the institution must inform the Foundation which of the two employment models for the candidate it wishes to use (i.e., open call or designation of a named candidate). If a named candidate is proposed, the following documents must be sent to the research consultant: 1) PhD certificate or equivalent, 2) CV and 3) detailed project description, including a timeline
Practical Information
- The application deadline is September 18 2024, 12:00.
- Applications must be submitted via the New Carlsberg Foundation’s online application system.
- Read more about the call here: https://www.ny-carlsbergfondet.dk/en/postdoc-fellowships
Questions?
For questions regarding the call, contact research consultant at the New Carlsberg Foundation, Tom Hermansen (th@ncf.dk). For other inquiries, contact research consultant at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Helle Breth Klausen (hbk@cc.au.dk).
