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Unge Forskere (Young Scientists) 2022

Grantee: Mikkel Bohm, Astra

Amount: DKK 2,000,000

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2021

Geography: Denmark

Unge Forskere is the largest talent competition in Denmark within STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Target group is students in primary school and high school.

Unge Forskere contributes to both talent development through participation in the competition and strengthens the work with innovation, idea development and the natural science method in daily teaching. Furthermore, it strengthens the natural science identity and the general science education among children and young people in Denmark.

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…Jan 2025 Closed To strengthen the pipeline of future researchers within the fields of medicine, chemistry, and pharmacy, and to raise awareness about science, including skin and skin diseases. It…

»I fell in love with the beauty and complexity of skin«

…to accelerate wound healing and enhance regeneration,” Ya-Chieh Hsu says. By Henrik Larsen Pursuing an interesting hypothesis may indeed lead to new insight. Yet sometimes, as frequently experienced in science,…

High school student wins the LEO Foundation Rising Star Prize 2025

Photo: Tor Birk Trads 11 April 2025 Habiba Amer from the International School of Hellerup is this year’s recipient of the LEO Foundation’s Rising Star Prize. The young science talent…

DKK 1 million for education and awareness initiatives in latest round of funding

8 June 2023 A science competition for high school students, science mentoring for young women and YouTube-videos about skin research are among the projects funded in the latest round of…

Researchers Communicate (Forskerne Formidler)

Grantee: Vibeke Hjortlund, Videnskab.dk

Amount: DKK 2,500,000

Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants

Year: 2024

Geography: Denmark

Videnskab.dk will further develop the existing initiative Forskerne Formidler (Eng. Researchers Communicate), now with an expanded international focus. The overall purpose of Forskerne Formidler is to provide easy access for the public to the science that shapes the world, directly from the scientists themselves. With a continuation of the program and platform it will focus on the development of three different areas: new genres and improvement of quality for existing, courses and training in dissemination for scientists, and international distribution, collaboration and network within academic journalism.

Videnskab.dk is Denmark’s leading popular science media with around 1 million monthly users. The media is an independent source of daily science news, features and other quality content in many different formats.

Forskerne Formidler is supported by the LEO Foundation alongside the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation, and the Augustinus Foundation.

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“The international aspect is fundamentally important for a researcher”

…research focus? My group, the Skin Science Lab at Zealand University Hospital in Denmark, is engaged in various research projects, specializing in investigating protein content in skin samples from rare…

New children’s books tell the lives and discoveries of great Danish scientists

…which introduces children to a wide range of Danish scientists, innovations and natural science phenomena. As part of the ‘Education and Awareness Grants’ program, the LEO Foundation has supported the

Promoting diversity and inclusion – case

…representation in our own organization and pledged to promote gender balance in the health science research environment. In the LEO Foundation’s own organization, we strive to build diverse Board, management,…

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