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Research Foundation

The foundation’s objective is to support scientific research at Aarhus University. The foundation awards grants to concrete research projects and larger multi-year projects and initiatives that strengthen research at Aarhus University.

Aarhus University

Research Foundation

The foundation’s objective is to support scientific research at Aarhus University. The foundation awards grants to concrete research projects and larger multi-year projects and initiatives that strengthen research at Aarhus University.

Aarhus University

Research Foundation

The foundation’s objective is to support scientific research at Aarhus University. The foundation awards grants to concrete research projects and larger multi-year projects and initiatives that strengthen research at Aarhus University.

Aarhus University

Research Foundation

The foundation’s objective is to support scientific research at Aarhus University. The foundation awards grants to concrete research projects and larger multi-year projects and initiatives that strengthen research at Aarhus University.

Aarhus University

Research Foundation

The foundation’s objective is to support scientific research at Aarhus University. The foundation awards grants to concrete research projects and larger multi-year projects and initiatives that strengthen research at Aarhus University.

AUFF portrait: 'A Danish history. From the viking age to the present day.'

Senior adviser and manager of danmarkshistorien.dk, Mette Frisk Jensen,  received a grant of DKK 30,000 in 2022 in publication funding for 'A Danish story. From the Viking age to the present day' on behalf of Department of History and Classical Studies. Read more about the piece here. 

Professor Signe Normand receives the Victor Albeck Award

Professor of Biology Signe Normand receives the 2022 Victor Albeck Award for her ground-breaking research into climate change and nature protection.

Unique collaboration with AUFF facilitates world-class research

Soon, the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, AIAS, can celebrate its 10-year anniversary. The director, Professor Søren Rud Keiding, takes stock of the institute’s excellent collaboration with AUFF, which today more than ever facilitates cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Listen to a podcast

Here, you can meet five cool ph.d.s in the podcast series ' the young researchers ' and take part in a trip back to the Roman Empire in the podcast series ' Caesar's Forum. Find the series at Spotify, Google Play or your usual online shop.

2020 grants

The Foundation awarded DKK 118,4 million for the research at Aarhus University in 2020. The majority went to the growth layer, including a total of DKK 50 million for AUFF starting Grants, DKK 30 million for AUFF NOVA projects, DKK  15 million to flexible PhD scholarships and DKK 13 million for Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies.

A legatee list for 2020 can be found here. 

The foundation supports Ukrainian researchers with DKK 10 million

In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Aarhus University Research Foundation is supporting research stays at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. The funds are used to support researchers who are at risk and who cannot continue their work. Research stays will have a length of six to twelve months.

Read the article at Forskerforum about Alina Korobeinyk, who came to Denmark as the first of the "researcher refugees" from Ukraine, which AU has offered six months of research stay (in Danish). 

An AUFF Starting Grant contributed to research of societal importance

Nicholas Haas is an associate professor at Aarhus University. This article revolves around lack of social inclusion and how an AUFF Starting Grant allowed Haas to further his research on this issue - one which is believed to be connected to many of the problems that affect societies across the globe.

News from the AUFF supported excavation in Caesar’s Forum in Rome

What is eight metres below street level at Caesar's Forum in Rome? Archaeologists have now dug their way 2,000 years back in time-down to the Roman phase.

The excavation in Caesar's Forum is backed by DKK 10 million of Aarhus University Research Foundation and DKK 11 million of Carlsberg Foundation. 

Watch video. 

Meet our subsidiaries: Parkkollegierne

In 2014, Aarhus University Research Foundation received the Student Halls of Residence in the University Park as a gift from the self-governing institution the Student Halls of Residence in the University Park. The aim is to ensure that the Student Halls of Residence in the University Park on a more solid and long-term basis can continue to serve as attractive housing for students at Aarhus University.

Since the handover, residence halls 1 and 6 have been renovated, and in the coming years, the others are expected to be similarly refurbished. The residents have just moved into the newly refurbished residence Hall 6.

Watch a video about the Student Halls of Residence in the University Park.

News from the University City

From the beginning of the development project in the University City, the foundation's subsidiary FEAS has sought to return to the original plan for the area without all the "knots" that have grown up over time. In other words, a return to a more rigorous style. It is not easy to see from the outside, but there really is a lot happening behind the construction site fence! Read more here (in Danish). 

Researcher portraits

Through 2019 and 2020 we have published the anniversary series 75 Years In The Service Of Science, where you have been able to read a researcher portrait on AU researchers each week, who have received a grant from the foundation in the period 1944 to the present day. You can revisit the portraits by clinking this box. 

Excavating the Untouched History of Rome

Rubina Raja has trained as a classical archaeologist at the University of Oxford and currently holds a professorship at Aarhus University. A DKK 10-million grant from the Aarhus University Research Foundation has enabled her and an international team of researchers to launch the archaeological project of their dreams – excavating the Forum of Caesar in the centre of Rome. Read the article here. 

PhD award winners

AUFF’s talent prizes recognise newly minted PhD graduates whose work in their fields and their presentation of it has received extraordinary recognition. Read more about the award winners of 2022 here. 

A critical humanistic look at the artificial visual culture of the future

The growth in artificial intelligence and synthetically generated images today requires us to put on our humanistic glasses and analyse the impact of technology on our visual culture and identity. So says Associate Professor Lotte Philipsen, who as art historian has researched the relation between art, images and technology.

Breathing new life into the red-brick buildings

The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics is the first department to have moved into Universitetsbyen, and soon 132 AU students too can call the former hospital buildings home.

From AUFF Starting Grant to the Global Stage

Nick Shepherd is an Associate Professor in the Department of Archeology and Heritage Studies at Aarhus University. This article revolves around the climate emergency and how a Starting Grant from AUFF in 2017 played a crucial part in allowing Shepherd to further his research on the topic.

The University City - A Red-Brick Counterpart to the University Park’s Yellow-Brick Buildings

When the foundation's subsidiary FEAS acquired the former hospital buildings on Nørrebrogade, it almost doubled the amount of square metres in its portfolio. The large project enables Aarhus University to reduce the distance not only between its academic environments, but also between the university and the city.

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Revised 17.01.2023
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