Current calls and posts

Circle U.-mobility grant continues for 2025

With the Circle U. mobility grant for 2025 there is once again an opportunity to strengthen international cooperation within both education and research. The faculty management team has decided to continue the programme, so employees at Faculty of Arts can apply for grants for international trips. One can also apply for funding for a study trip for up to 50 students.

• Read more about Circle U. mobility grant. (DK only)
• For more information about the grant, refer to the Circle U. mobility grant 2024.

Circle U. educational activities

There is now an opportunity to apply for funding for Circle U. educational activities in collaboration with one of the other Circle U. universities.

The faculty management team has, to supplement the Circle U. mobility grant, decided to create a smaller grant that supports educational activities with other Circle U. universities in 2025. The grant allows one to invite guest lecturers or develop events, try new formats or create subject packages in cooperation with one or more of the eight Circle U. universities in Europe. Lecturers can apply for the grant, and it can be combined with the mobility grant that may fund a visit to another university or a bus trip for students.

• Read more about Circle U. educational activities.

Support for Open Science: Journal Finder

To support researchers in publishing Open Access, the Royal Library has established Journal Finder, which aims to make it easier and more straightforward to identify journals covered by national licensing agreements for Open Access publishing. Try the service, which is free, here: https://pro.kb.dk/en/open-science/journal-finder

• If you have any questions about Open Access, you are very welcome to contact AU Library's Open Access support: oa@kb.dk

New thematic instrument: Information on the Co-PI model

Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) is introducing a new instrument with a focus on collaboration for its politically prioritized themes. With the introduction of the new thematic instrument, collaboration will be an essential evaluation criterion for applications. Therefore, all thematic applications must include a Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI).

The new instrument will take effect with the upcoming thematic call for 2025, which is expected to be published in March.

• Read more about DFF’s requirements for applicants and Co-PIs.
• Read more about DFF’s new framework for thematic research or see announcement below.

New framework for thematic research in 2025

Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) introduces a new instrument for implementing politically prioritized themes, which will take effect in 2025. This thematic instrument is designed to better address the specific research needs typical of thematic areas, including practice-oriented research. In total, the fund will distribute approximately 2.1 billion DKK for independent research in 2025, including 867.6 million DKK for research for specific themes as part of the agreements on the distribution of the research reserve.

DFF expects to publish a thematic call for proposals in early march 2025.

• Read more about DFF’s new framework.

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.

Online crash course on SIF (storing sensitive research data)

You are hereby invited to an introduction to the mandatory guidelines for the new Sensitive Information Facility (SIF) provided by AU. The main page for SIF is https://sif.au.dk. 

Going forward, we will in the beginning have an introduction once a month. Later, this will be shifted to a sparser schedule. Right now, you are invited to participate at any of the following dates:

• 7 May, 9:00 – 10:30
• 2 June, 9:00 – 10:30

We will have the session online using Zoom, and details will follow in the calendar invite. Please sign up by writing Per Møldrup-Dalum at per@cas.au.dk.

• Before the session, you should orient yourself in the documentation and create your account on SIF.
• If this goes wrong, you can contact support@au.dk for assistance.
• General guide for SIF.

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Masterclass 2025
Registration deadline: 27 April 2025
Call deadline: 10 September 2025

The registration for the Research Support Office's (RSO) annual MSCA PF Masterclass 2025 is now open. Through the Masterclass, postdoc applicants and their supervisors receive support throughout the full Postdoctoral Fellowship application process, including training webinars, feedback on application texts, and formality checks.

We encourage all applicants with AU as the host organization to register for the Masterclass, as it is a requirement to obtain full support from the RSO.

• Register 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.