Education and Awareness Grants

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2026

Geography: Denmark

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2026

Geography: Denmark

The project aims to create a free educational board game for 2nd-3rd grade STEM classes. The goal is to strengthen the pupils’ curiosity, motivation to learn, and understanding of scientific methods through play, collaboration, and inquiry-based missions. The project targets STEM primary school teachers at large, with an added focus on also enabling qualified STEM teaching for non-specialist teachers. The game may be played in four different thematic variations which are aligned with the curriculum – 1) the human body, 2) technology and resources, 3) organisms, and 4) water, air, and climate. The goal is to distribute class sets of five games each to 400 schools, thereby reaching up to 21,000 pupils annually.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2026

Geography: Denmark

The project aims to strengthen Danish pupils’ understanding of numbers and algebra through novel, research-based didactics. It combines two research approaches, læringsspor (“learning trajectories”) and kernepraksisser (“core practices”) to improve the mathematics teaching at 11 schools in Kalundborg. The project will reach about 200 students in the 5th grade within the municipality as a test case. Their 15 teachers and 8 local math supervisors will co-create educational material focused on fractions and equations together with researchers from University College Absalon. The purpose is to improve the students’ math competencies, support teachers’ professional development, enable peer-to-peer dissemination to other teachers, and contribute to providing a basis for a nationwide initiative. The developed material will become available for digital download for free after the project at www.paa-sporet.dk, and the results will be presented to interested parties at a closing conference in October 2027 and follow-up courses.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2026

Geography: Denmark

A box of eight illustrated children’s books on the life and research of well-known Danish scientists is distributed to Danish kindergartens. The goal is to spark early scientific curiosity among the 4-6-year-olds and provide pedagogues with age-appropriate tools that are aligned with the STEM curriculum for kindergartens. The researchers are selected to balance concrete and abstract science, historic and modern-day scientists, and diversity in gender and ethnicity. The books are supplemented with educational material introducing preschoolers to hands-on experiments and playful activities related to the presented research fields. More than 3000 Danish kindergartens have already committed to receiving a box, and the municipality of Roskilde serves as a development and test partner.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2026

Geography: Denmark

The university museum Medicinsk Museion will create a new major exhibition exploring precision health through science, culture, and history, including a focus on skin as a visible and personal organ and barrier. The goal is to enhance public understanding of personalized medicine and its ethical, social, and scientific perspectives. Target groups include the general public, students, and health professionals with an expected 500,000 visitors over the exhibition lifetime of ten years.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

The educational project will create a model for a biodiversity learning facility through a prototype, a 100 m2 gravel habitat for local plants and insects, and associated educational material developed with five schools in Glostrup. Combining landscape design and STEM methodology, it offers children aged 6-10 and their teachers an outdoor classroom to explore ecosystems through play, observation, and experiments. The goals are to strengthen biodiversity knowledge, curiosity, and scientific skills in early education. The project expects to reach 500 children and 30 teachers in Glostrup, with an overall aim of establishing a concept that can be replicated in other schools.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

This is an educational project for children aged 7-12, focused on the skin and its role as the body’s largest organ, its health, and common conditions. The cross-media initiative will create an illustrated tactile book which is developed into an e-book and audiobook, as well as podcasts, animations, and a small game, which are all interconnected and offer different ways of exploring and learning. The goal is to build children’s health literacy and stimulate their curiosity for science and understanding of skin biology. Target groups include children, parents, teachers, and venues such as libraries, science centers, and museums.

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

Ungdommens Naturvidenskabelige Forening organizes six summer camps where high school students explore science, health, and technology through hands-on experiments, lab work, and real-world problem-solving. The camps are run by volunteering university students who act as teachers and role models, fostering both learning and community. With around 300 expected participants, the project aims to strengthen young people’s interest and confidence in STEM fields and inspire future studies and careers in science. The camps are carried out in different regions across Denmark, at DTU, SDU, and AAU, and travel and accommodation are covered to promote equal access for students.

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.