BiokataLYST
Grantee: Adam Roigart, BY RUM SKOLE
Amount: DKK 993,851
Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants
Year: 2025
Geography: Denmark
Your Amazing Skin (Din fantastiske hud)
Grantee: Anne Kathrine B. Nielsen, Caretoons ApS
Amount: DKK 989,207
Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants
Year: 2025
Geography: Denmark
UNF Science Camps 2026
Grantee: Carina Molsen Villadsen, Ungdommens Naturvidenskabelige Forening
Amount: DKK 500,000
Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants
Year: 2025
Geography: Denmark
The 2026 Solar Eclipse – A Nationwide Public Science Event (Solformørkelsen 2026 – Landsdækkende naturvidenskabeligt folke-event)
Grantee: Henrik Bjerring, Nordic Science Company
Amount: DKK 993,000
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.
Build-a-baby (et spil om genetik, egenskaber og livskvalitet for udskolingen)
Grantee: Hans Emil Sølyst Hjerl, Danmarks Naturfagslærerforening
Amount: DKK 640,000
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.
Science for Children (Naturvidenskab i børnehøjde)
Grantee: Lea Matthaei, Go Zebra
Amount: DKK 1,836,560
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.
BLOOM
Grantee: Svante Lindeburg, Fonden ADBC
Amount: DKK 3,000,000
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.
Natural Science Area at “Ungdommens Folkemøde” 2026-2028 (Naturvidenskabeligt område på Ungdommens Folkemøde 2026-2028)
Grantee: Camilla Gregersen, Ungdomsbureauet
Amount: DKK 1,260,000
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.
Biotech Academy Camp 2025-2027
Grantee: Biotech Academy
Amount: DKK 750,000
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.
The Math Center (Matematikcenter)
Grantee: Bolette Møller Jensen, Matematikcenter
Amount: DKK 998,340
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.