Novo Nordisk Foundation Sustain Programme (Denmark)

Deadline: 29 August 2024

The Novo Nordisk Foundation is currently accepting applications for its Sustain Programme to encourage the scientific use of existing data, specifically for cardiometabolic disease (CMD) research, through a funding mechanism that supports both the custodians of the databases and the researchers who use the data.

The goal is to sustain high-quality health databases, encourage custodians to make data accessible, and ultimately advance understanding, prevention, and treatment of CMD.

Areas of Support

The NNF Sustain Programme aims to sustain existing databases and to support their custodians, when the data is accessible and used by researchers to advance understanding, prevention and treatment of CMD. Databases do not need to have a specific focus on CMD-specific indicators, but must contain data which may be used for research related to CMD.
In this context, they define databases as any datasets and the infrastructure around them which allows data collection, annotation, integration, cleaning, management, and efforts that promotes FAIR principles as well as secure and ethical use of data.
Database custodian applicants may apply for the operation, maintenance, extension, and/or improvement of existing datasets and infrastructures, but not to create new datasets.
Applicants can apply for support with hardware and skilled personnel who can offer training, consultation, data processing, data analysis, data management, software/database development, and dissemination of data/tools.

Funding Information

A total pool of up to DKK 50 million is available for grants awarded to data custodians and researchers.
For data custodians, grants will be commensurate with the number of research proposals submitted and selected for funding (up to DKK 12 million for one database if the maximum of three proposals are matched with that database).
Data custodian applicants may not submit budgets below DKK 100,000.

Eligibility Criteria

The applicant (database custodian) must be employed at a university, hospital or other non-profit research institution in Denmark. The applicant’s hosting institution will receive and administer the grant.
The data and infrastructure support applied for must be anchored at a university, hospital or other non-profit research institution in Denmark.
A hosting letter signed by the head of the department must be included with the application.
The database must contain data which may be used for research related to CMD but does not need to have a specific focus on CMD-specific indicators.
The database must adhere to basic requirements for the application of the FAIR principles.
Documents related to the ethical approval, when applicable, for the database must be included with the application.
It is a requirement that the database custodian has a planned budget.
The applicant must be guaranteed their own salary for the entire applied project period.
Applicants may submit only one application as a database custodian.

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