CFPs: Lauritzen Fonden Grant Program (Denmark)

Focus Areas

• With the focus areas of well-being and education, initiatives and projects are supported that facilitate children and young people’s path into education and employment. The distribution strategy is implemented through grants, other involvement and collaboration that enables increased impact of the distributions with a special focus on:
  • Secure and create new knowledge about challenges and opportunities
  • Enter into and enable new forms of cooperation and partnerships
  • Anchor new methods that increase the positive effect in the area
• To create a framework for their distribution strategy, they have identified two focus areas: well-being and education.

Ineligible Expenses

• Study trips for persons not connected with the Lauritzen Group
• Social support for individuals
• Theatre, film, TV and video projects
• Publication of magazines and books
• Publication of music
• Concerts and exhibitions in Denmark and abroad
• Conferences, meetings and seminars in Denmark and abroad
• Project expenses already incurred at application date

Eligibility Criteria

• Students not connected with the Lauritzen Group. Meaning that in order for the student to apply for a grant, they must have a familiy-related linkage to the Lauritzen Group.
• They focus on children and young people in low-income families because they thrive less, have more difficulty finding their way through education and gaining a connection to the labor market. In Denmark, approximately 8% of children and young people grow up in low-income homes, which according to various research:
  • Thrive less well – both physically and mentally
  • Go to leisure activities less often than other young people
  • Feel lonely more often
  • Often do worse in primary school and at the 9th grade final exam
  • Start secondary education less often
  • Generally receive less
  • Education
  • Receive a lower income as adults
  • Have a higher risk of becoming unemployed
  • Have a higher risk of receiving early retirement
• The fact that these children and young people may have a more difficult path through life has consequences not only for the individual, but also for society, because it ultimately means more inactive adults who do not have the same opportunities to contribute to society.

Application Requirements

• As a minimum remember to include the following points in your application:
  • The project’s purpose, means/activities and expected results
  • The project’s target group and planned communication on the project towards this group
  • The project’s budget and financial plan.

For more information, visit Lauritzen Fonden.