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Sustaining the Voice of Science: Increase the Impact of STEM Communication Activities at DTU Skylab
Grantee: Christian Daniel Koldbech, DTU Skylab
Amount: DKK 998,333
Grant category: Education and Awareness Grants
Year: 2024
Geography: Denmark
DTU Skylab will produce two video series, in total ten videos, to promote interest in STEM innovation and entrepreneurship. One of the series will consist of documentaries presenting the most significant innovations that have been realized within the DTU Skylab framework. The other series will consist of interviews with in-house experts and Skylab-based student entrepreneurs sharing their experiences and advice for students.
The videos will provide behind-the-scenes insights into the nature of scientific and technological innovation and entrepreneurship.
Two symposia receive first funding through new Research Networking Grants program
…of Color Dermatology: The Interaction of Science & Society, is to promote practicing clinicians, residents, trainees, basic and translational researchers who are underrepresented in science and medicine, assembling leading scientists…
Grants and awards
…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…
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.
»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…
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,…
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.
“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…