Project Grants for Research in Art History 2024 (Denmark)

Research Field

• Project proposals can address art history research within all time periods from prehistoric to modern times in a Danish or International context. The project proposal must demonstrate academic relevance for the research environment at the Danish host institution.
• Projects within architecture and design will be taken into consideration, if the applicant sufficiently accounts for the project’s relevance for the visual arts. The Foundation does not support projects within preservation or archeology.

Funding Information

• A total of DKK 3 million is available for funding of research projects. In case NNF receives a large number of qualified applications for large scale projects including co-applicants, it is possible to expand the total grant budget to up to DKK 5 million.
• Applicants are encouraged to apply for large scale collaborative research projects and to make use of the 3 years available for this grant, allowing time to conduct thorough research.
• The projects must be of a duration of 1, 2 or 3 years. You must clearly indicate in the application whether you are applying for funding of a 1, 2 or 3-year project grant (indicated in budget years and not calendar years). If a project has a duration of less than one year, i.e. 6 months, it must still be applied for as a project grant of up to 1 year.
• The budget frame is DKK 100,000–2,000,000.
• Applications for funding below DKK 100,000 will not be considered.
• It is strongly recommended that you liase with your administrating host institution regarding the budget.
• Funding cannot be requested to cover:
  • Installation and organisation of art exhibitions;
  • Expenses for organisation of large-scale conferences;
  • Expenses solely for workshops/symposia;
  • Tuition fees;
  • Salary for supervisors or mentors; or
  • Overhead (e.g. rent, water, electricity, heating, maintenance).

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible you must work within the field of art history research and be anchored at a university, museum or other knowledge institution in Denmark (administrating host institution) during the grant period.
• The project must involve significant research activity and be feasible at the host institution throughout the duration of the project period.
• The application must have one main applicant who is the grant recipient. However, the project grants are also open to one or more co-applicants who contribute academically to the project and who will receive a financial share of the grant as detailed in the application. The administrating host institution will be responsible for transferring funds to any co-applicants.
• It is also possible to include postdocs in the project, financed as part of the project.
• General rules for applying
  • An applicant may submit only one application per call.
  • It is not possible to hold more than one active grant of the same grant type. Researchers with an active grant of a specific type may be able to apply for a new grant of the same type during the final year of the grant, however, a new grant cannot be activated until the existing grant is completed and no longer active.
  • If a project receives a grant, the grant agreement must be signed by the main applicant and the head of the administrating host institution, unless they are the same person. It is the responsibility of the main applicant, that the head of the administrating institution has seen and agreed to the submitted application.

Language

• The application system is in English, but applications can be submitted in either Danish or English. The language chosen will not influence the assessment of the application.

For more information, visit Novo Nordisk Foundation.