Current calls and posts

AU Connect: New funding opportunity for development and innovation – collaboration between researchers and private and public companies

All members of the academic staff can apply, including PhD students. You can apply for up to DKK 150,000 for collaborations with companies. For example:

• Testing ideas for a product or service in collaboration with a company
• Testing the development of a technology or service in a company
• Collaborating with a public company on the preparation of, for instance, analyses

There will be two rounds of application – one in autumn (1 November) and one in spring 2025 (28 March).

Read more here: AU Connect – funding for collaboration

New templates: Do you process personal data in your research?

When collecting personal data as a researcher, you generally need to inform the relevant people (data subjects) that you are processing their personal data. This is called the information duty. The purpose of the information duty is to secure transparency for the data subjects about how you will process their personal data. 

AU’s templates for information duty, scientific research purposes and informed consent have just been updated. You can find them here:

• Scientific research purposes
• Information duty
• Do you have any questions? Then you can contact the data protection coordinator at Arts, Louise Buchhave (lobu@au.dk).

Social security at the School of Communication and Culture

It is important to factor in social security – understood as the right to benefits such as parental leave and sickness benefits – when appointing international researchers with external grants if they are living and working in countries other than Denmark (including part time), as there could be significant costs associated with such appointments. The school is unable to cover social security costs for employees involved in externally funded projects. In such cases, the costs must be covered by the project, so it is important to take this into account when applying for external funding. Arts HR (in collaboration with Arts Finance) has offered to assist in calculating the costs of social security. The research consultants are responsible for inquiring about and verifying whether social security considerations are relevant when approving budgets. If you have any doubts about social security, you can always contact one of the school’s research consultants.

Project handbook for researchers with external grants – updated

The aim of this handbook is to provide researchers at the School of Communication and Culture with a single source of information about what happens when they receive an external grant, and to help PIs/grant holders find any advice they may need. The latest edition of the handbook addresses co-publication, among other things. The handbook was updated in June 2024.

• Find the project handbook here.

New decision regarding named Ph.D. candidate in major applications

The Graduate School of Arts has decided that, when applying for funding for a named Ph.D. candidate in connection with larger research applications, pre-approvals in the future should be based on an assessment of the candidate's qualifications (CV and diploma) as well as a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 5 pages of project description formulated by the named Ph.D. candidate. This applies to applications where the Principal Investigator (PI) writes a project description on behalf of the entire research group. From this, the named candidate must be able to demonstrate the ability to write an independent sub-project description.

Obtaining a statement of no previous convictions in respect of children

A ministerial order has been issued which implies that we are obliged to obtain a statement of no previous convictions in respect of children for employees whose work will involve direct contact with children under the age of 15. If you (or members of your research group) interview or observe children, a statement of no previous convictions in respect of children may need to be obtained. However, such a statement must only be obtained if you are alone with the child, i.e. if the child is not accompanied by a parent or guardian, childcare professional or teacher in an interview situation or the like.

First, you can contact the research consultant (hbk@cc.au.dk) if you belong to the target group or if you are in doubt as to whether a statement needs to be obtained. You can also read about the process of obtaining a statement of no previous convictions in respect of children here.

Are you applying for the Novo Nordisk Foundation: Mads Øvlisen stipends? Or the Ny Carlsbergfondet PhD and postdoc stipends?

It has been pointed out to us that external applicants find the school’s online information regarding research very confusing. Therefore, the external website (Research at the School of Communication and Culture) has been given a structural and aesthetic overhaul. The website has been made more simple, and you can now find information about, for example, the school’s research organisation and specific information about the processes for the Novo Nordisk Mads Øvlisen fellowships and the New Carlsberg Foundation’s PhD and postdoc fellowships as well as information about Marie Curie.

• See the new external website here.

Do you have an idea for a school workshop?
We would be happy to hear from you, if you have any ideas for research-related workshops to be held at the school. Simply reach out to the research consultant with suggestions and wishes in this regard.

Explorative lunch meetings at the Faculty of Arts
Are you interested in exploring cross-disciplinary themes or issues with researchers from other faculties at AU? Have you got a new, untested, crazy, experimental or inspiring idea for a new angle on research collaboration between ARTS and the other AU faculties (HEALTH, BSS, NAT and TECH)? An explorative lunch meeting at the Faculty of Arts might be exactly what you’re looking for. The Faculty of Arts is inviting its researchers (assistant professors, associate professors and professors) to propose a variety of cross-disciplinary themes which could be explored at a series of lunchtime meetings in 2022 with a view to conducting a broad investigation of the cross-disciplinary potential in various new research ideas or fields. Proposals are welcome on an ongoing basis. You can read more about the procedure here.

ERC Consolidator Grant (CoG)
Application deadline: 14 January 2025
Deadline for notifying the research consultant: 28 August 2024 (send an email to research consultant Lise Marie Andersen: (lmand@cc.au.dk)

This year’s ERC CoG call opens on 26 September 2024, and the deadline for applications is 14 January 2025. The Consolidator Grant is aimed at researchers who wish to consolidate their independence by establishing a research team and continuing to develop a successful career in Europe. The grant is highly competitive, so it is important to start early if you plan to apply. The Research Support Office has a team of ERC specialists who will be able to help you if you notify the school’s research consultant coordinating ERC applications before the notification deadline.

• Read more about the call here.
• Download the Research Support Office’s process plan for ERC CoG 2025 here.

Fulbright grants for Danish scholars in the 2025/2026 academic year
Application deadline: 12 February 2025 at 12 noon

Fulbright Denmark awards grants to scholars undertaking a self-planned research and teaching stay at a university in the USA. The grants are awarded to postdocs, assistant professors, associate professors or professors. The duration of the stay must be one or two semesters (4-10 months), and the grant amount is DKK 200,000.

• You can read more about the grants here.