MGMT launches special funding support for applications to the Danish Council for Independent Research 2017

Heads of sections will now identify associate professors and professors who are planning to apply for DFF funding and are interested in participating in the department peer-review support process.

We expect a call for applications for DFF Research Project 1 and 2 to be announced soon with deadline 28 September 2017 at 16:00.

In order to develop strong applications, the MGMT external funding team (Michael S. Dahl, Pernille Kallehave and Anne Marie Zwergius) offers special support for potential applicants.


The support includes:



29 June at 13:00-15:00: Seminar (room 2628-M303)

by invitation only (participants to be identified by Heads of Sections based on formal criteria in the call, strong research ideas and interest in developing new research projects)

  • Introduction to the call, evaluation criteria, general advice on ‘the good application’ by Professor Michael S. Dahl
  • Presentation of research projects by participants. Peer feedback
  • Formalities to observe by Anne Marie Zwergius, Research Support Unit


29 August: Internal Individual Review Process
Future DFF applicants are invited to send their draft research applications to Professor Michael Dahl for internal review. Deadline 29 August.
The applicants will get individual feedback by senior researchers from MGMT.

15 September: Applicants send their applications to the controllers for budget advice and to the research support office for formality checks.

28 September: Deadline for applications to DFF.

The call will soon be available here: http://ufm.dk/en/research-and-innovation/councils-and-commissions/the-danish-council-for-independent-research/calls?set_language=en&cl=en