Grand Solutions

The Grand Solutions programme offers funding for Danish-led collaborative R&D projects, or close-to-market projects, typically holding high disruptive potential as well as having significant societal and/or economic value. This concerns creating value for Danish public and private companies and/or customers in the Danish society, for example, citizens, regions, and municipalities. The programme is organised by Innovation Fund Denmark (Innovationsfonden), which overall aims to support the development of knowledge and technology, including advanced technology, and in turn strengthen research and innovative solutions that may contribute to Danish growth and employment.

Commercial Opportunities

As a private company participating in a Grand Solutions project, it is possible to obtain funding for the early strategic research, development, or market introduction of high-potential products, thus improving your market position and competitiveness.

Innovation Fund Denmark paves the way for research institutions and public parties to publish research results, increase education, establish spin-offs, and develop new technologies for the benefit of society.

Funding Available

With the Grand Solutions funding programme, Innovation Fund Denmark offers grants of typically 5 to 40 million DKK available for projects, with the Fund contributing up to 75% of eligible project costs. Projects are 1 to 5 years in duration.

Requirements

For a given project idea submitted as a Grand Solution, applications need to demonstrate:

• Ambition: High risk profile projects that can develop new or improved solutions to politically prioritised societal challenges, hence create important value throughout Denmark. For example, by creating new knowledge or improving processes, systems, and products.
• High value for Denmark: The projects must create societal or economic value in Danish public and private companies or for customers in the Danish society.
• Collaborative research for public and business solutions: Close collaboration between research institutions and the business community or public customers of the solutions, such as municipalities and regions, is encouraged.
• Cross-disciplinary and value chain-based partnerships: Cross-disciplinarity involving different parts of the value chain, from foundational research to industrial research and experimental development, is encouraged. Buyers of the project results and other core stakeholders, e.g., end-users or public/private investors willing to invest post-project, are welcome as active project partners.

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