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
NB: Please be aware that the submission of documents other than those specified in the call texts will result in rejection on administrative grounds.
| 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 | 50.00 - 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. |
| Digital Research Infrastructure | No max. (minimum: 300.000 DKK) | 1 October 2025 at 16:00 | The applicant must be a tenured associate professor, senior researcher or professor. The applicant must be employed at a level equivalent to at least 80 % effort at one or more Danish research institutions throughout the grant period. |
| 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 | Cannot be applied for in 2025 (next call is in 2026) |
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. | 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 |
VELUX FOUNDATION
The Velux Foundation: Core Group Programme 2026
The School of Communication and Culture has once again been invited to submit project proposals to the Velux Foundation’s core group programme supporting independent basic research withing the humanities and social sciences.
Please see the full call at the Velux Foundation website here.
PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAMME
- The Core Group Programme offers a medium-sized funding form (between individual project and research centre) that can serve as a ‘stepping stone’ both in relation to the participants’ further career opportunities and the potential for larger and/or international grants.
- The project must provide synergy with the departments’ realisation of their research plans and objectives – and thereby also benefitting education.
- With the Core Group Programme, the Velux Foundation wishes to incorporate the research environments’ own ‘silent’ knowledge of research trends, needs and promising new ideas/initiatives/researchers through close dialogue with the heads of schools.
- A core group project can have a budget of max 6 mio. DKK.
REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICANTS
- A core group is a closely collaborating research team typically consisting of one or two tenured researchers as project managers, possibly along with a number of other senior researchers (tenured) and 2-3 postdocs and/or PhD students.
- A core group can consist of researchers from the same department or researchers from across departments and universities.
- It is a requirement that all postdoc position be filled by open call. The foundation generally encourages to fill both postdoc and PhD positions through open calls whenever possible.
APPLICATION PROCESS
The School of Communication and Culture has been invited to submit a total of four full applications, and we will select the projects in the research committee based on an open school call for expressions of interest.
INTERNAL SCHOOL DEADLINES
| Deadline | What | Who |
22 October 2025 | Deadline for submitting internal expressions of interest (max 3 standard pages, 3x2400 characters) | Expressions of interest should be forwarded to research consultant Helle Breth Klausen (hbk@cc.au.dk) |
12 November 2025 | All expressions of interest are assessed, and four projects are selected for submitting full proposals in the research committee. | The research committee convenes to discuss and select the projects. |
19 November 2025 | A final decision is made regarding what projects will be selected for writing full proposals. The selected four projects will be put into contact with Arts Finance in order to help out with putting together a budget. Helle will let all applicants know about Unni and Tore’s decision. | Unni From and Tore Rye Andersen |
9 January 2026, 2:00 PM | Deadline for budget approval (for selected projects) | Budgets are forwarded to research consultant Helle Breth Klausen (hbk@cc.au.dk). |
3 February 2026, 2:00 PM | Deadline for submitting full proposals (max 12 pages) | Selected project proposals are submitted to the Velux Foundation. Please also send a copy of the application to research consultant Helle Breth Klausen (hbk@cc.au.dk) for record-keeping purposes. |
REGARDING EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Expressions of interest (max 3 standard pages, 3x2400 characters) submitted in the pre-qualification round are advised to address the following points (based on the Velux foundation’s evaluation criteria):
- A pitch of the research idea and overall research question (addressing relevance, quality and innovation).
- Presentation and motivation of proposed sub-projects (and the synergies between them).
- Qualifications of the project manager(s) and other project participants of relevance to the project proposal.
- Planned collaborations and reflections on how the project will feed into national and international research agendas.
- Emphasis is placed on the ‘stepping stone potential’ concerning the further career opportunities and research development of the project leader(s) as well as the possibility of establishing a strong research environment.
- Additionally, it is important that the project reflects the department's research strategy and academic priorities and thus it’s ability to contribute to the department with positive effects on research and education.
Applicants should include CVs for the project members (please use the mandatory CV template available at the Velux Foundation’s website).
Budgets are excluded from the internal pre-qualification round at the school.
Feel free to reach out to research consultant Helle Breth Klausen (hbk@cc.au.dk), if you have any further questions regarding the process
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 |
Novo Nordisk Foundation: Mads Øvlisen
| 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 |
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).
