Funding granted for eight research projects

The Programme Committee for Research Funding has granted a total of 9.3 MDKK for 8 research projects in 2026, 4 of these are PhD projects. 5 Project Leaders are female, 3 are male. 

The Research Council received 46 applications in total, applying for 52.7 MDKK, at the annual deadline in February.

The projects which have received grants from the annual call of the Research Council in 2026 are:

Rannvá Næs Hoydal: " Bodies of Old Norse Myth. A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Symbolism of Bodies in Old Norse Mythology."
PhD project at University of Iceland – 1,200,000 DKK

Anna Eikhólm: ” Minding the Gap: Developing Special Pedagogical Knowledge for Inclusive Education.”
PhD project at Faculty of Education, University of the Faroe Islands – 1,700,000 DKK

Thomas Ulrich: ” Ferromanganese Crusts as Tracers of Ocean Evolution.”
Project at Clausthal University of Technology – 1,100,000 DKK

Ása Jacobsen: ” Coastal nursery habitats and juvenile recruitment to commercially exploited fish stocks.”
Project at Faroe Marine Research Institute – 1,058,965 DKK

Knud Simonsen: “High resolution Wind Atlas for the Faroe Islands.”
Project at the Faroese Meteorological Office – 486,790 DKK

Eivy Kristiansen: ” Nurses' Confidentiality and Privacy Attitudes and Reported Experiences in a Small-Scale Sub-Arctic Society: A mixed-method study.”
PhD project at Faculty of Health and Nursing, University of the Faroe Islands – 1,700,000 DKK

Pætur M. Holm: ” FAROA - Optimizing Osteoarthritis Care Pathways in Faroe Islands.”
Project at the Surgical Center, National Hospital of the Faroe Islands – 1,100,000 DKK

Elsa Krosstein: ” Assessing the Evolutionary History of the Faroese Population Using Genomic Data.”
PhD project at University of Copenhagen – 1,000,000 DKK