Project Grants for research within Industrial Biotechnology and Environmental Biotechnology
Supports innovative Nordic research in industrial and environmental biotechnology focused on sustainability, scalability, and ecosystem impact.
Funder: Novo Nordisk Foundation
Due Dates: August 20, 2026 (Full application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to DKK 4.3 million (~€575,000) per project for 1–3 years; total call budget DKK 40 million.
Summary: Supports innovative research projects in industrial and environmental biotechnology with a focus on sustainability, scalability, and ecosystem impact in the Nordic region.
Key Information: Projects must be based at a university or non-profit research institution in Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, or Sweden.
Description
This grant supports excellent, strategically oriented research projects within industrial and environmental biotechnology. The aim is to fund projects that address major scientific questions and challenges, with an emphasis on sustainability, scalability, and potential to impact ecosystems or productivity. Research should involve a clear element of biotechnology, broadly defined per OECD standards, and may cover topics such as engineering biological tools for sustainable production, developing monitoring technologies for microbial activity, enabling bioeconomy bioproduction, improving biomanufacturing efficiency, environmental protection through biotechnology, ecosystem manipulation, or advancing data science and digitalization in these fields.
Projects must be led by researchers at universities or non-profit research institutions in the Nordic region (Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, or Sweden). International collaboration is encouraged and may be prioritized in the evaluation process.
