Deadline: 3 June 2025
The Independent Research Fund Denmark is now accepting applications for its Research on Elderly and Ageing to illuminate elderly citizens’ social, psychological and physical robustness, including and among other things within the context of nursing and care in the local healthcare system.
It could, e.g., be in areas such as rehabilitation, care, prevention and research on self-determination of eldercare, including the interaction between the public and other communities within the elderly area. Furthermore, the research can illuminate inequility and challenges in relation to compassion fatigue within the elderly care.”
Funding Information
- Up to DKK 5,000,000 excluding overhead/administration expenses.
- The duration of the research project is up to five years.
Eligibility Criteria
- The project must be lead by an applicant and a named Co-PI.
- The applicant is main responsible towards the fund in the event of a grant.
- As applicant as well as Co-PI you must have obtained a PhD degree (or similar qualifications, e.g. positive assistant professorship evaluation) at the time of the application deadline.
- DFF furthermore requires that the applicant and the Co-PI are from different research disciplines.
Application Requirements
- The application must contain a project description and an appendix that describe the research project altogether.
- The project description must not exceed 6 A4 pages and must not exceed a total of 18,000 characters (incl. spaces, figures, figure captions, tables, etc.).
- The appendix must not exceed 1 A4 page and must not exceed a total of 3,000 characters (incl. spaces, figures, figure captions, tables, etc.). The appendix must clearly account for how the project addresses the applied-for theme, including the expected, societal impact of the project.
- It is allowed to address thematic relevance and theme-specific requirements in the project description as well.
For more information, visit Independent Research Fund Denmark.
