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Published: 04.06.2024

Funding granted for 12 projects in 2024

The Programme Committee for Research Funding has granted a total of 9.9 MDKK for 12 research projects in 2024, 7 of these are PhD projects. 8 Project Leaders are female, 4 are male. 

The Research Council received 39 applications in total, applying for 36 MDKK, at the annual deadline in February.

The projects which have received grants from the Research Foundation in 2024 are:

Bergur Rønne Moberg: "The Lost Musician. A Biography on William Heinesen"
Project at the University of the Faroe Islands and Copenhagen University - DKK 625.000

Pætur Zakariasson: "From Estrangement to Engagement – exploring absenteeism and engaging practices in educational environments in the Faroe Islands í Føroyum"
PhD Project at Nám and the University of the faroe Islands - DKK 1.600.000

Sissal Dahl: "Making everyday island life: a comparative mixed methods study on the changing geographies of women's unpaid care workng"
PhD Project at the University of Grooningen - DKK 1.200.000

Helena L. Mortensen: "Agents of New Narratives in a Time of Crisis – An Ecocritical and Narratological Analysis of Contemporary Faroese Literature"
PhD Project at the University of the Faroe Islands - DKK 1.600.000

Harriet Hammer: "A nation-wide study on medication use in the Faroe Islands" 
Project at the University of the Faroe Islands - DKK 390.000

Maria Skaalum Petersen: "Do “forever chemicals” have “forever impacts” - a study of prenatal PFAS exposure and obesity in adulthood"
Project at the National Hospital of the Faroe Islands - DKK 660.000

Fróði Fríðason Jensen: "Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia in the Faroe Islands"
PhD Project at the National Hospital of the Faroe Islands - DKK 1.000.000

Jana Mortensen: "Navigating everyday life among people with cognitive impairments followed by Parkinsons disease living in the Faroe Islands"
PhD Project at the University of the Faroe Islands - DKK 445.000

Heidi Wolles Ljósheim: "Numerical methods for interacting particle systems and application to PDE-constrained optimization"
PhD project at the University of Edinburgh - DKK 525.000

Svein-OIe Mikalsen: "The genomes of Faroese cod - geography and history"
Project at the University of the Faroe Islands - DKK 505.000

Marjun á Fríðriksmørk Berbisá: "Assessments of pelagic fish stocks and bycatch using environmental DNA and user-friendly samplers"
PhD Project at the University of the Faroe Islands - DKK 370.000

Amanda Vang: "Gelatinous Lifeforms in Faroese waters: Biodiversity, Regional Connectivity, and Capacity building"
Project at Firum - DKK 1.000.000