Education and Awareness Grants

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

The project is a nation-wide public science engagement initiative in relation to the solar eclipse on 12 August 2026. Through live TV broadcasting, public events, and collaborations with primary and lower secondary schools on educational material, it will engage all of Denmark in the wonders of astronomy and astrophysics and expose them to relevant scientists and hands-on experiments.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

Danmarks Naturfagslærerforening will create Build-a-baby, an interactive 90-minute classroom game on genetics, in partnership with Copenhagen Game Lab. Target group is lower secondary school. Students will “build babies” by combining genes, environmental factors, and life events affecting health and pass traits on to the next generation. Focus is on stimulating knowledge and reflection on health, risk factors, inheritance, and lifestyle. The game includes teacher guides, supports biology curriculum milestones, and will be free for educators nationwide with potential for expansion to other Nordic countries.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

Go Zebra is an organization dedicated to stimulating the STEM curiosity of children through educational material with a special focus on engineering and innovation. In the project, it joins forces with researchers Emma Aller (molecular biologist), Abdi Hedayat (conservator), and Tina Ibsen (astrophysicist and science communicator) in developing two free educational courses on evolution and plant science for 3rd-4th grade teachers and pupils. Teachers with a formal STEM education are in short supply, and the two courses will be designed so that they can also be taught by teachers without a STEM specialty. Classes participating in the project will have workshops facilitated by Go Zebra at their schools, and the developed material will become available for free.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

The project supports and develops the annual Bloom Festival on nature and science, which is free and open to everyone, in 2026-28. In addition to the festival program which targets the public in general, the activities include the continuation of the Bloom School initiative – a one-day event targeting school children – and Bloom Explore – digital science dissemination. Furthermore, a new activity, Bloom High School, will be introduced, targeting the upper secondary school level with an additional festival day customized for this age group.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

The Ungdommens Folkemøde festival in 2026-28 will be expanded with an area designated for STEM and health sciences-related activities, with the overall aim of increasing awareness of the role of science in developing society and solving societal challenges. The focus will be on dissemination from young to young. Engaging activities, such as hands-on experiments, workshops, and talks, will spark curiosity, provide STEM experiences outside the classroom, and allow visitors to meet other young people who are pursuing scientific interests in different ways, as well as STEM professionals. The annual two-day event is visited by 30,000 visitors each year, typically between the ages of 15 to 25.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

Biotech Academy Camp is a free, annual event organized by Biotech Academy – a non-profit organization run by ambitious students from Danish universities. This project supports three Biotech Academy Camps for 30 high school students from all over Denmark. The camps combine theory and lab work at Technical University of Denmark and expose students to opportunities within commercial R&D through company visits. They are run by master’s and bachelor students from the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Copenhagen. The topic changes every year, but in 2025 the theme will be genetic modification. The camp will focus on how genetic modification can be used to address societal challenges, develop and improve cell factories in industrial contexts, and open up discussions about research ethics.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

Matematikcenter offers free math support to children and young people in Denmark through local math cafés, the digital platform Webmatematik.dk, and the online math café Webmatlive.dk.

Through its initiatives, Matematikcenter breaks down barriers in mathematics, strengthens students’ skills, helps them succeed in math, and demonstrates how mathematics is an essential part of both education and the job market.

By engaging volunteer role models, Matematikcenter creates a safe learning environment where students can receive support at their level – regardless of where they are.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

With the album Mininaut Musik, complex scientific topics are transformed into catchy, educational songs for children aged 3–6.

The album includes 8 original songs on topics such as poop, plastic, skin, and plants, giving children extraordinary knowledge about subjects in their immediate world.

Behind the album is Radionauterne, who for over 8 years have created engaging and innovative science communication for children aged 3–10. The project Mininaut Musik stems from Radionauterne’s popular podcast for 3–6-year-olds, Mininaut. The idea is to link the original songs directly to selected podcast episodes – both existing and future ones – thereby creating an extra dimension to an already successful science communication project.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

“Denmark in the Future Global AI Society” is an ambitious documentary TV series for DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) that, in an entertaining format, aims to engage Danes in a debate about artificial intelligence (AI) and the societal changes that come with it.

Across six episodes, the series will follow a number of leading Danish AI researchers who, in a time of transition, are confronted with ethical, political, and existential questions surrounding the technological shift. In the international race for new AI technologies – led by the USA and China – the researchers are pursuing groundbreaking methods and unique data to develop AI solutions that not only make Denmark competitive but also protect its citizens and democracy.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

The Nobel Laureates is an ambitious podcast series in 125 episodes that tells the story of modern science through the most groundbreaking discoveries and the people behind them.

The series takes the listener on a journey through 125 years of Nobel Prize winners and culminates in the anniversary in December 2026, leading up to the award ceremony in December 2027. Each episode portrays one Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, physics, or medicine and conveys not only the scientific breakthrough but also the personal story and the societal impact the individual has had.

With its captivating format and engaging content, the series builds on the success of the podcast Periodisk and combines fascinating storytelling with academic precision. To make the world’s greatest scientists and their discoveries accessible, understandable, and inspiring for a broad audience of knowledge-interested Danes, they employ techniques such as scenic storytelling, rich sound design, and narrative dramaturgy.